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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 · 2 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled

Operator · 14 hobby · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21kritzel0★24 days—hobbymacOS app that pastes an image from the clipboard and annotates it with arrows, text, shapes, highlights, and pixelation before saving.
  2. 22lunarium0★1 day—hobbymacOS screenshot tool for capturing screen regions, annotating with markup, redacting sensitive pixels, and copying to clipboard.
  3. 23stitch0★3 days—hobbyNative app for macOS and iOS that takes one image from the clipboard or a file, lets users annotate it, and copies it back or saves as PNG.
  4. 24Flick0★9 days—hobbyScreenshot tool for macOS that captures a selected screen region, annotates it with shapes and text, and copies it to the clipboard.
  5. 25action-script-picker2★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS utility that converts Photoshop actions into copyable AppleScript code for use in automation tools.
  6. 26shotty2★1 molivehand-codedhobbymacOS utility for capturing screen areas, annotating them, and extracting text via OCR.
  7. 27PixelTrace0★1 mo—hand-codedScreen annotator and laser pointer app with a floating edge-docking drawer for macOS and Windows.
  8. 28fang-bob-screenshot-translator2★1 mo—hobbyDesktop tool that captures screenshots, performs local OCR, and translates text into multiple languages on macOS.
  9. 29ioncapture2★1 mo—hobbymacOS screenshot and annotation tool with OCR and pinned screenshots, offering a local alternative to CleanShot X.
  10. 30BugShot2★1 mo—Desktop utility that copies iPhone screenshots to the Mac clipboard with a single click.
  11. 31snip-to-codex1★27 days—hobbyWindows screenshot helper that captures a selected region and sends it into Codex or ChatGPT chat via keyboard shortcut or button.
  12. 32OnTop0★1 mo—hobbyMenu-bar screenshot tool for macOS that captures, annotates with boxes and comment pins, and keeps recent shots in a floating tray for drag-out.
  13. 33glyph0★28 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that captures a screen selection and copies recognized text or QR code payloads to the clipboard.
  14. 34PicText0★1 mo—hobbymacOS image viewer that zooms with the mouse wheel, pages through folders, and copies selected text from images using on-device OCR.
  15. 35iSnap0★7 mostaleliveai-builthobbyMenu bar utility that captures screen regions, copies or saves them, and provides instant pen, shape, text, and redaction annotation tools for macOS users.
  16. 36snapstash0★6 mostale—ai-builthobbyMacOS utility that captures full-screen or selected-area screenshots, saving them to both clipboard and a folder with a single shortcut.

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.