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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.
About TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool on Product Hunt
“Copy any text on your Mac—instantly”
TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #104 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.9k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 160.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool?
TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool was hunted by Mann Badal. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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