Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly lets you instantly capture text from anywhere on your Mac — even when you can't select or copy it. Extract tables from screenshots, PDFs, videos, and apps while keeping rows and columns intact. Export to CSV, Markdown, or TSV, translate text instantly, and revisit previous captures with clipboard history. Just select an area, capture, and get back to what matters.
I'm the indie developer behind Textly, and I'm excited to share it with you!
Textly started from a simple frustration — seeing text or tables on my Mac screen but not being able to copy them. I kept wondering, why should I have to retype something that's already on my screen?
That's what inspired me to build Textly.
What began as a simple text capture tool has grown into something more — with table recognition that preserves rows and columns, instant translation, and searchable clipboard history.
I've put a lot of care into making Textly feel simple, fast, and truly native to macOS.
As an indie developer, your feedback means a lot. I'd love to know what you think and what I could improve.
The table capture is the part that caught my eye — most screenshot OCR tools flatten everything into a paragraph, so keeping rows and columns intact is the hard bit. How does it handle merged cells, or cells with line breaks inside them? That's usually where these tools fall apart for me when I'm pulling data out of PDFs.
Does the table capture keep amounts like (45.00) as they are, or turn them into -45.00? That's usually what breaks when I paste a bank statement table into a sheet.
About Textly on Product Hunt
“Capture Text & Tables from Anywhere on Your Mac”
Textly launched on Product Hunt on November 8th, 2026 and earned 88 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly lets you instantly capture text from anywhere on your Mac — even when you can't select or copy it. Extract tables from screenshots, PDFs, videos, and apps while keeping rows and columns intact. Export to CSV, Markdown, or TSV, translate text instantly, and revisit previous captures with clipboard history. Just select an area, capture, and get back to what matters.
Textly was featured in Mac (103.9k followers), Productivity (665.4k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 193.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Textly?
Textly was hunted by Suresh Shetty. 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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Suresh Shetty
Hey 👋
I'm the indie developer behind Textly, and I'm excited to share it with you!
Textly started from a simple frustration — seeing text or tables on my Mac screen but not being able to copy them. I kept wondering, why should I have to retype something that's already on my screen?
That's what inspired me to build Textly.
What began as a simple text capture tool has grown into something more — with table recognition that preserves rows and columns, instant translation, and searchable clipboard history.
I've put a lot of care into making Textly feel simple, fast, and truly native to macOS.
As an indie developer, your feedback means a lot. I'd love to know what you think and what I could improve.
Thanks for checking out Textly! ❤️