Copy anything on your screen

Draw around text you can see anywhere on your Mac. CopyLasso reads the pixels locally and puts clean text on your clipboard.

macOS 14+ · Apple silicon + Intel · 3.73 MB

A demonstration shows a street sign reading 7th Street above a storefront reading Starbucks Coffee. A selection is drawn around both, producing the clipboard text 7th Street Starbucks.

Fast, free, and private

  1. Your screen
  2. Local capture
  3. Local recognition
  4. Your clipboard
The line ends there.No account, cloud OCR, analytics, or telemetry.

Fully free and MIT open source. Screenshots are never stored. Capture History is off by default and encrypted locally if enabled.

It reads more than paragraphs

QR code for copylasso.com

QR and barcodes

Recognize supported codes as inert plain text, ready to paste.

Hello你好こんにちはمرحبا

Your languages

Choose and prioritize the OCR languages available on your Mac.

const result ="copied";

Text from any app

Photos, paused videos, remote desktops, menus, and code are all just screen pixels.

Your screen stays on your Mac

CopyLasso uses Apple Vision on device. There is no account, cloud OCR, analytics, or telemetry.

Private by default

  • Screenshots and HUD previews are never logged, saved, or uploaded.
  • Capture and recognition happen locally on the Mac.
  • There is no account, cloud OCR, analytics, or telemetry.
  • Capture History is off by default and encrypted locally when you opt in.