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CLUSTER OCR-DESKTOP-MACOS · 36 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-01-09

macOS screenshot OCR utilities

This cluster consists of desktop screenshot tools for macOS (with one extending to Windows) that combine region/full-screen capture with OCR, translation, annotation, pinning, and clipboard history. The dated entry history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from—only two dated entries exist, so the cluster's origins predate the index or members are largely undated. Traction leaders are Ta (48 stars), macos-universal-clipboard-repair (17 stars), and winter_shot (3 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2026: 1APR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 9SEP 2026: 18OCT 2026: 7
JAN 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 · 19 unlabelled

Operator · 14 hobby · 1 indie · 1 commercial · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Ta61★1 mo—An AI-powered screenshot tool for macOS that captures screens, extracts text with OCR, translates, and annotates images.
  2. 02macos-universal-clipboard-repair17★1 molivemacOS utility that diagnoses and repairs Universal Clipboard, Handoff, and Continuity Camera issues.
  3. 03clip4★22 days—hobbyA macOS utility that captures screenshots by selecting a region and pasting, with OCR and scrolling capture.
  4. 04glance-desktop3★6 daysliveNative macOS screenshot editor that captures, annotates, and exports images or animations to share visual context with coding agents.
  5. 05yomi-overlay3★22 days—hobbyPopup dictionary for macOS that uses screen OCR to define Japanese text from any window, including vertical layouts.
  6. 06Heron2★5 days—hobbymacOS automation tool that recognizes on-screen text and images to click buttons, record macros, and run scheduled tasks.
  7. 07gigle-pin1★28 dayslivecommercialmacOS utility for capturing, pinning, and recording screen regions, with controls an AI agent can trigger without using the mouse.
  8. 08MacCap12★1 mo—hobbymacOS screenshot utility that captures the screen and organizes captured images for easy access.
  9. 09MagCopy1★19 days—hobbyWindows and macOS desktop app that captures selected screen regions as clipboard screenshots and records screen areas as GIFs sized and edited for Discord.
  10. 10screen-capture-macos4★29 days—hand-codedhobbyNative macOS screenshot utility that captures screen regions and scrolling long pages, keeping images on-device.
  11. 11shot2photos1★24 days—hobbyDesktop utility that automatically imports macOS screenshots into Apple Photos and optionally removes the originals.
  12. 12macos-batch-print1★17 days—hobbyNative macOS app that batch prints folders of receipts, invoices, or screenshots with configurable scale, paper, margins, per-file overrides, and live preview.
  13. 13trace1★20 days—hobbyKeyboard-driven macOS screen annotation tool for drawing over any screen content during recordings, demos, and teaching.
  14. 14clipocr1★7 days—Mac menu-bar utility that captures a screen region, recognizes text locally, and copies it straight to the clipboard.
  15. 15SnipSnap2★23 dayslivehobbymacOS utility for capturing screenshots, pinning windows, performing offline OCR, and translating text in place.
  16. 16snipmd0★11 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.
  17. 17grab0★5 days—indiemacOS utility that copies text, links, images, QR codes, colors, files, code, and tables by pointing at them and pressing a key.
  18. 18SnapClip0★13 days—hobbyWindows tool for taking screenshots, annotating images, extracting text via OCR, pinning images to screen, and browsing clipboard history.
  19. 19snip0★21 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar screenshot utility that captures screen regions with markup, delay timer, and direct clipboard output.
  20. 20ScreenshotPlus0★24 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar app that captures screenshots, annotates them, extracts text with OCR, and generates QR codes.

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.