Privacy Policy

Text Snatch for Mac

Text Snatch does not collect, store, or share any personal data.

What the app does with what you grab

• When you select an area of the screen, Text Snatch captures only that area, recognizes the text in it on your Mac using Apple's built-in text recognition, and copies the text to your clipboard.
• The captured image is discarded immediately afterwards.
• The only things it writes to disk are its own settings — your keyboard shortcuts and preferences — on your Mac. What you grab is never written to disk.

Clipboard history

Off until you turn it on, under Clipboard History in the menu. While it is on, Text Snatch keeps the last 25 things you copied — fewer or more, if you move the slider — so you can get back to them with ⌘↑ and ⌘↓. You should know exactly what that means before you switch it on:

• It watches the clipboard itself, so it holds what you copy in any app, not only what you grab with Text Snatch. Text and images both.
• It is kept in memory only. Nothing is written to disk — not a file, not a database, not the app's settings. There is nothing on your Mac for anyone to read later.
• It is gone when the app quits, and gone at once if you switch the feature off or choose Clear History. Logging out or restarting clears it too.
• It also clears itself when you stop using it — after 15 minutes with nothing copied and nothing cycled, by default. Forget After in the menu changes that to 5 minutes, an hour, or never; never still means until the app quits.
• And it clears itself when you walk away: when the screen locks, when another user signs in, or when the Mac sleeps. Each is a separate switch under Clear When You Walk Away.
• When the history clears for any of those reasons, the clipboard itself is emptied too, if it is still holding something the history remembered — otherwise the last item would stay where every app on the Mac can read it. Wipe the Clipboard Too in the menu turns this off.
• Nothing is recorded while macOS secure input is on — the mode the system turns on when a password field has the keyboard.
• The preview window is excluded from screen sharing and screen recordings, so the one place the history is ever visible does not travel down a call.
• When the history is cleared, the bytes of any remembered image are overwritten first. This is best effort, not a guarantee: if the same buffer is shared elsewhere in memory, only our copy is erased, and text cannot be erased this way at all.
• Anything a password manager or similar app marks as concealed, transient or auto-generated is never recorded, which is the convention those apps use to say "do not remember this".
• Still no network. The history is not uploaded, synced or shared with anything, including your other Macs.

If you would rather Text Snatch never looked at your clipboard, leave the feature off: with it off the app reads the clipboard only to write a grab to it, exactly as before.

No internet, no tracking

Text Snatch makes no network connections. Nothing you grab is uploaded or sent anywhere. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party services.

Screen Recording permission

macOS requires Screen Recording permission for any app that reads what is on the screen. Text Snatch uses it only when you start a grab, and only for the area you select. You can turn it off at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording.

Children

Text Snatch collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@spssolutions.ca.