TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool: Copy any text on your Mac—instantly

TextGrab turns anything on your Mac screen into paste-ready text. Press a shortcut, drag over text, a QR code, or a barcode, and paste the result anywhere—no retyping, no uploads. It also imports images and PDFs, searches and edits capture history, translates on-device, and reads text aloud. Built as a fast, menu-bar-first Mac utility with no account, analytics, subscription, or online AI. One private purchase, yours for good.

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I built TextGrab after hitting the same tiny frustration over and over: useful text was right there on my Mac, but trapped inside a screenshot, video, PDF, presentation, or app. I wanted the fix to feel native: press one shortcut, drag over what you need, and paste. No browser extension. No cloud upload. No account. That simple idea grew into a focused menu-bar tool that also reads QR codes and barcodes, imports images and PDFs, keeps a searchable text-only history, translates on-device, and can speak captured text aloud. Source images are processed in memory and never retained. TextGrab is a one-time $4.99 purchase—no subscription—and this is its first Product Hunt launch. I’d love to hear what you capture with it, and which workflow would make it even more useful for you. 🙌

The menu-bar-first approach feels right for a tool like this. Love that it skips the account and upload dance entirely.

@chaney_kyl87381 Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it 😀

The menu-bar-first approach feels right for a tool like this. Love that it skips the account and upload dance entirely.

@chaney_kyl87381 Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it 😀