TextMagnet - Copy Screen Text
OCR anything you can see
Only for Mac
$5.99
Mac
Click any text on screen to copy it. Live capture turns subtitles into transcripts, code keeps its indentation, tables paste as tables. All private, on your Mac.
TextMagnet pulls text off anything on your screen. Press one shortcut and everything becomes copyable: videos, images, slides, PDFs, error dialogs and apps that won't let you select anything.
CLICK TO GRAB
TextMagnet finds every block of text on screen the moment you press the shortcut and highlights it. Click a paragraph to grab it. No careful dragging required, and you can still drag any area you like.
FIVE SMART MODES
• Text: smart paragraphs rejoin lines that were only wrapped by the layout and repair hyphenated words.
• Code: keeps indentation and restores the braces OCR usually drops, so code pastes ready to run.
• Table: pastes as a real table into Numbers, Excel, Pages and Notes, or copy it as Markdown.
• Translate: recognizes and translates in one step, on device.
• Live: keeps reading an area and builds a transcript.
LIVE CAPTURE
Select an area once and TextMagnet keeps reading it, building a clean transcript as the text changes. Repeats are ignored, growing captions are merged, and rolling two-line subtitles come out as one tidy script. Perfect for videos, live captions, streams and slides.
A RESULT CARD RIGHT WHERE YOU LOOKED
After a capture, a card appears next to the selection with your text already copied. Fix a word right in the card. Links, emails, phone numbers, addresses, dates, hex colors and QR codes become one-click actions. Read it aloud, translate it or share it.
APPLE INTELLIGENCE BUILT IN
On Macs that support Apple Intelligence, fix OCR mistakes, summarize, turn text into bullet points or pull out to-dos with one click. Everything runs on device.
FLOAT ON SCREEN
Keep any capture floating above every app: a Wi-Fi password, a code, a translation, a reference. Fade it, flip to the original snapshot and copy with one click.
REPEAT LAST AREA
Capture the same spot again with no selection.
WORKS WITH EVERYTHING
• Drop images or PDFs onto the menu bar icon
• Read the image on your clipboard
• Right-click images in Finder: Services > Extract Text with TextMagnet
• Shortcuts actions: "Extract Text from Image" and "Capture Text on Screen"
• URL scheme for automation: textmagnet://capture?mode=code
A LIBRARY THAT REMEMBERS
Every capture is saved with a snapshot and the name of the app it came from. Search it, pin favorites, edit, translate and rewrite later.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Recognition, translation and AI all happen on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
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New name: TextMagnet, rebuilt from the ground up.
• Click to grab: every block of text on screen is highlighted the moment you press the shortcut. Click one to copy it.
• Five modes: Text, Code (keeps indentation), Table (pastes as a real table), Translate (on device) and Live (turns subtitles into a transcript).
• A result card next to your selection: edit the text, translate it, read it aloud or float it on screen.
• Apple Intelligence on supported Macs: fix mistakes, summarize, make bullet points or pull out to-dos.
• A searchable Library of every capture, with snapshots.
• Shortcuts actions, the Services menu, and text from images and PDFs.
The developer, Georgios Trigonakis, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Georgios Trigonakis
- Size
- 2.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Georgios Trigonakis
