Version 1.0 — first release
5 November 2026
- Press ⌘ ⇧ 2 anywhere: the screen freezes, you drag over any text, and it is in your clipboard when you let go. A small panel next to the selection shows what was copied.
- Three modes in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen or in the panel: Text, Table and Translate.
- Table: paste into Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets as cells, or copy the table as CSV or Markdown.
- Translate (macOS 15 and later): the text in your language next to the original, translated on your Mac with Apple’s translation.
- QR codes and barcodes are detected. Links, email addresses and phone numbers show up as buttons.
- Press ⌘ ⇧ 1 to read the same area again.
- Recent captures in the menu bar. History keeps text only and can be turned off.
- Reads English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian and Russian, and more on newer macOS.
- Works offline. Copyable makes no network requests and has no account.