TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool
Instant Text Scan & Capture
Only for Mac
$4.99
Mac
Copy unselectable text, QR codes, and barcodes from any Mac screen. Edit, translate, or hear it aloud—privately, on-device, with no subscription.
Capture the text you can't select on your Mac.
Press a shortcut, drag over text or a code, and paste the result anywhere.
TextGrab recognizes content in images, videos, PDFs, presentations, websites,
and other Mac apps without uploading your screen.
One purchase. No subscription. No account.
Use TextGrab to:
- Capture text from videos, presentations, YouTube, Zoom meetings, and livestreams.
- Extract text from photos, screenshots, PDFs, and images in virtually any format, including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP.
- Copy text that can't normally be selected from ebooks, websites, desktop apps, and mobile apps.
- Read text from scanned or image-based PDFs without converting the entire document.
- Instantly grab email addresses, phone numbers, links, and other important details from anywhere on your screen.
- Generate alt text for screenshots before sharing them on social media.
- Scan QR codes and barcodes directly from your Mac.
- Recover text from protected PDFs and read-only software.
- Recognize or speak on-screen text while gaming or watching streamed content.
Features:
- Capture text, QR codes, and barcodes from any visible Mac content
- Import images and PDFs, read clipboard images or PDFs, and use Continuity
Camera with a nearby iPhone or iPad
- Search, edit, and pin captures without retaining source images
- Detect the recognition language automatically or choose a preferred language
- Teach recognition product names, acronyms, and specialist terms
- Translate captured text with Apple Translation
- Listen with macOS system voices
- Collect several captures with the additive clipboard
- Customize global shortcuts for capture, editing, speech, and clipboard actions
Language Support:
TextGrab uses Apple’s on-device Vision framework, so available text-recognition languages depend on your macOS version. The app displays the exact languages supported by your Mac in Settings.
- macOS Tahoe: Supports 26 languages and variants, including Arabic, Najdi Arabic, Cantonese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
- macOS Sequoia: Supports Arabic, Najdi Arabic, Cantonese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Privacy:
- Screen regions, imported files, clipboard content, and Continuity Camera
images are processed in memory and never retained by the app
- History stores recognized text and metadata; the additive clipboard stores text
- No accounts, advertising or analytics
Ratings & Reviews
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- updated support and privacy url
The developer, Mann Badal, 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
- Mann Badal
- Size
- 6.7 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 Mann Badal
