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Unpixel
Stop retyping text from videos, scans and screen shares
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Stop retyping text from videos, scans and screen shares
2 followers
Unpixel is a Mac menu bar app that copies text from anything on your screen. Press ⇧⌘2, drag over a video, screen share, scanned PDF or image, and the text is on your clipboard — recognized on-device by Apple’s Vision framework. Captured images are never saved or uploaded, and there’s no account. It also reads QR codes and pastes tables as tables. One-time purchase from $5.99, no subscription, every 1.x update included.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
You've probably been here: the error code you need is in a dialog that won't let you select it. The line of code is in a paused tutorial video. The slide in a screen share moves on before you've written it down. So you retype it.
I built Unpixel for those moments. Press ⇧⌘2, drag over the words, let go, and they're on your clipboard as real, editable text, with no screenshot file left behind. Recognition runs on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework, so captures are never uploaded. There's no account and no analytics, and it only goes online to verify your license and check for updates.
Beyond the basic capture:
• ⇧⌘1 re-reads the same spot, handy for live captions or changing slides
• Hold ⌥ as you let go to translate on-device
• Tables paste into Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets with rows and columns intact
• QR codes, barcodes, images and scanned PDFs work too
It needs macOS 26 Tahoe on Apple silicon, and it can't read DRM-protected streaming like Netflix, since those frames show up black to every screen-capture tool. It's a one-time purchase from $5.99, no subscription, with a 14-day money-back guarantee instead of a free trial.
What's the text you find yourself retyping most often?