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Copy code from a YouTube video

Following a coding tutorial and tired of retyping every line? Pause the video, press one shortcut, and the code is on your clipboard, ready to paste. No browser extension, no uploading a screenshot, no converting anything. A local AI fixes what OCR gets wrong, all on your Mac.

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From paused video to runnable code

No new windows, no uploads, no file conversions. As easy as copy and paste.

Pause the video

On YouTube, Udemy, Coursera, or anywhere else the code is on screen.

Press ⌘⇧7 and drag

Draw a box over the code. It works system-wide, not just in the browser.

Paste and run

Clean code lands on your clipboard, indentation and quotes intact.

See it in action

Pause the tutorial, grab the code, paste it straight into your editor.

Step 1

Screenshot text from any video

Pause any video and press ⌘⇧7 to highlight the code you want to copy.

export function useCart() {
const [items, setItems] = useState([])
const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p])
return { items, add }
}
11:42 / 28:06Coding tutorial
Step 2

Instantly paste into your editor

Now it's on your clipboard. Press ⌘V to paste into your editor.

export function useCart() { const [items, setItems] = useState([]) const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p]) return { items, add } }

Plain OCR mangles code. This fixes it.

A frame of a video is low-resolution and ambiguous. The on-device AI repairs the result.

Plain OCR
function useCart() {
const [items, setltems] = useState([])
const add = (p) => setltems([...items, p])
const key = ‘cart’
return { items, add }
}
Indentation lost“I” read as “l”Curly quotes
Fixed by on-device AI
Cleaned
function useCart() {
const [items, setItems] = useState([])
const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p])
const key = "cart"
return { items, add }
}

Runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.

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Copying code from videos

Everything you need to know.

Yes. Screenshot Text reads whatever is on your screen, so it works on any video site or player, plus anything else: a PDF, a Stack Overflow image, or a screen-share. It is not tied to one site.

No. It is a native Mac app, so it captures code from any app, not just the browser. There is nothing to install in Chrome, and it keeps working when the video is in a desktop player.

That is the whole point. After OCR reads the frame, a local code-aware AI restores indentation, straightens curly quotes, and puts dropped brackets back, so the code pastes in ready to run.

No. OCR runs on-device with Apple's Vision framework and the AI cleanup runs a local model on your Mac. No upload, no account, works offline.

Free for 5 captures a day with AI cleanup included. A one-time $49 Lifetime makes it unlimited. No subscription.

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