TextSniper
Extract text from visuals
Mac
Version 1.13.0
macOS 12.0 or later
5.8 MB
1 languages
Meet lightning-fast text recognition on Mac. TextSniper is an app that can extract text from a selected portion of your screen. Forget taking notes — get TextSniper to capture and save what’s important.
Save notes from videos, tutorials, etc.
Copy and paste text from an image
Quickly capture words from a web page
Capture text from paper documents
TextSniper features
Capture text from graphics, docs, or video
Nothing is non-textual for TextSniper. The app uses advanced OCR technology to instantly extract text from anywhere on your screen. Whether it’s an online presentation, YouTube video, graphical image, or PDF document, use TextSniper to turn anything into editable text.
As easy as copy & paste
To extract text, press Cmd+Shift+2 and select any portion of the screen. TextSniper automatically recognizes text inside the screenshot and saves it to your clipboard. Then, use the familiar Cmd+V to paste your text anywhere. You can change the shortcut if you like.
Keep what’s important
TextSniper essentially helps you avoid clutter by quickly capturing only the most important information. Save your text as a paragraph or keep the line breaks. You can even use TextSniper’s text-to-speech feature to have the app read it to you.
Available from the menu bar
You can access TextSniper from your menu bar to start capturing or customize some settings (change the keyboard shortcut or choose to keep line breaks when copying text). At other times, it stays unnoticeable and out of your way.
Ratings and reviews
TextSniper
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3615 ratings
Why doesn’t it work?
Yesterday
App version: 1.13.0
Here’s how I imagine this app working: it lives in my menu bar, and when I’ve got an image with some text in it, I click the menu bar icon, which gives me a tool to select the area of the image containing the text. And then I can send the text to my clipboard or whatever. Here’s what actually happens: it’s not in my menu bar. I search for it with Alfred and then it appears in my menu bar. I select it, and then nothing happens. I search for it again and now it’s gone from my menu bar. In Finder, I go locate the app and double click to get it to activate, and nothing happens. I open Setapp to check for updates, and it’s already on the latest version……. five minutes have passed and no text has been selected.
Response from Developer
Yesterday
Hello! After launching, TextSniper runs silently in the background and is accessible from the menu bar. To use it: 1. Press Shift+Command+2 (⇧⌘2) to activate Capture Text mode. The mouse pointer will change to a crosshair. (Note: TextSniper requires Screen Recording permissions to operate correctly.) 2. Select any screen area. The text within your selection will be recognized and copied to your clipboard instantly. 3. Press Command+V (⌘V) or right-click and select Paste to insert the text into any application (e.g., Pages, Word). If the menu bar icon is missing: - Check macOS Settings: Go to System Settings > Menu Bar, scroll down to the "Allow in the Menu Bar" section, and ensure TextSniper is toggled ON. - Free up space: Try temporarily quitting other menu bar apps to see if the TextSniper icon reappears. Pro Tip: Once the icon is visible, hold the Command key and drag the icon to the right (closer to the Wi-Fi, Clock) for better accessibility. We hope this helps.
Dmytro
Sep 22, 2026
App version: 1.13.0
For the past couple of months, I’ve been constantly getting errors like this: Optional(TextRecognition.CRImageReaderError.e5rtError("e5rt_execution_stream_operation_create_precompiled_compute_operation_with_options call failed", 13)).. UPD: Thanks for the new macOS 27 update. Hopefully, the issue is fixed now. If it happens again, I’ll let you know.
Hüseyin Murat Yurttaş
Sep 21, 2026
App version: 1.12.1
A very nice app. A very nice andd responsive developer. After os27 update there are some issues but stcik with this minimalistic app
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