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toCopy is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that turns anything on your screen into text — instantly, without switching apps. Drag to select, and it's already on your clipboard. What's different: most screen-OCR tools stop at plain text. toCopy also decodes QR codes and barcodes on the spot, and a second hotkey captures content in Markdown — preserving structure instead of flattening it into one paragraph. Runs entirely on-device — no accounts, no uploads, no network calls. Free.
I built toCopy because I was tired of the same annoying loop: see text on screen (a screenshot someone sent, a slide in a video call, a sign in a photo), and have no way to grab it without retyping the whole thing by hand.
So toCopy is just that — select any area of your screen, and the text is on your clipboard a second later. It runs entirely on-device (Apple's built-in recognition, no servers, no accounts), so it works instantly and never sends anything anywhere.
A couple of things I ended up adding because I kept needing them myself:
It also decodes QR codes and barcodes — point-select one and you get the actual URL/text, not a screenshot of it
A second hotkey captures in Markdown, so headings and lists survive instead of turning into one flat paragraph
It's free, it's a tiny menu bar app, and it does one thing. Would love to hear what you think — especially if there's a screen-text-grabbing workflow I haven't thought of yet.
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About toCopy on Product Hunt
“Select on screen. Get plain text.”
toCopy was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #83 on the daily leaderboard. toCopy is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that turns anything on your screen into text — instantly, without switching apps. Drag to select, and it's already on your clipboard. What's different: most screen-OCR tools stop at plain text. toCopy also decodes QR codes and barcodes on the spot, and a second hotkey captures content in Markdown — preserving structure instead of flattening it into one paragraph. Runs entirely on-device — no accounts, no uploads, no network calls. Free.
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