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CLUSTER BAR-CAPTURES-CLIPBOARD · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-13

macOS menu bar OCR clipboards

This cluster comprises macOS menu bar utilities that perform on-device OCR on a captured screen region and copy the recognized text (or QR payload) to the clipboard. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, as no entries have dates before that period. Among the traction leaders, CodeCatch leads with 2 stars, followed by Nictate and clipocr, each with 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 4
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Nictate1★6 dayslivehobbymacOS utility that captures any visible text on screen and copies it to the clipboard using OCR.
  2. 02clipocr1★15 days—Mac menu-bar utility that captures a screen region, recognizes text locally, and copies it straight to the clipboard.
  3. 03snipmd0★19 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that captures a screen region and converts it to Markdown or LaTeX on the clipboard, including math equations and tables.
  4. 04TextPicker0★5 days—hobbyMenu bar app for Macs that captures any part of the screen and copies recognized text to the clipboard using on-device OCR.
  5. 05jupjup0★8 days—hobbymacOS app that captures any text displayed on screen with a shortcut, copies it to the clipboard, and keeps tables intact for spreadsheet use.
  6. 06prompt-master0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyMenu bar application that stores prompt snippets as cards and copies selected ones to the clipboard with a single click.
  7. 07glyph0★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that captures a screen selection and copies recognized text or QR code payloads to the clipboard.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.