Textify at a glance

Name: Textify, listed on the Mac App Store as “OCR Text Recognition: Textify”
What it does: OCR (optical character recognition): reads the text in images, screenshots, photos and scanned PDFs, and saves it as a searchable PDF or plain text
Developer: iSolid apps (iSolid SRL), seller on the App Store: iSolid SPRL
First release: July 7, 2020
Current version: 6.1.1, released January 5, 2026
Requirements: macOS 10.15 Catalina or later, Apple silicon or Intel
Size: 3.6 MB
Price: Free download; Textify PRO as an in-app purchase, yearly or lifetime
OCR engine: Apple’s Vision framework, on the Mac
OCR languages: 30 on macOS 26 Tahoe, with automatic detection on macOS 13 and later (list)
App languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified)
Privacy: No data collected (App Store label “Data Not Collected”), works offline
Category: Utilities, on the Mac App Store
iPhone and iPad: “Image to text°” on the App Store, iOS and iPadOS 15 or later
Support: textify@isolid.be

How Textify works

Textify is built on Apple’s Vision framework, the text recognition engine built into macOS (VNRecognizeTextRequest), used at its most accurate level with language correction. Everything happens on the Mac:

Textify reads each page at full resolution and finds every line of text, with its position on the page.
When you save a PDF, it writes each line as invisible text exactly over the same words of the page, so the PDF can be searched, selected and copied.
The image settings you choose (colors, quality, size, document enhancer) only apply to the saved pages, after the recognition, so they never lower its accuracy. With the original settings, the original PDF pages are kept as they are.

There is no Textify server: documents are never uploaded, Textify needs no account and no internet connection, and it collects no data.

Version history

The main steps since the first version. The App Store lists the notes of the latest update.

Date	Version	What changed
July 2020	1.0	First release on the Mac App Store
August 2020	1.3	Text export without formatting
October 2020	2.0	French interface, and 7 more OCR languages with macOS 11 Big Sur
November 2020	2.0.1	Native support for Mac computers with Apple silicon
May 2021	3.0	Import from iPhone and iPad (Continuity Camera), text editing, OCR zones
September 2021	3.1 and 3.2	PDF print size, automatic file naming
December 2021	4.0	Shortcuts actions and Finder Quick Actions for batch OCR, image rotation, raw and formatted text views
February 2022	4.1	Chinese (Simplified) interface
October 2022	5.0	6 more OCR languages and automatic language detection with macOS 13 Ventura, PDF outline kept
September 2024	5.5	Document enhancer and improved image filters
June 2025	5.7	New text integration engine for more precise searchable PDFs
December 2025	6.1	Original PDF pages kept, with their vector text, drawings and annotations
January 2026	6.1.1	New app icon

Awards and press

#1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, on July 12, 2020. Textify on Product Hunt.
Featured by Apple.
Mac4Ever (in French) on Textify 2.0 and Textify 3.0.
Listed on MacUpdate, and discussed on the MacRumors forums.

About iSolid

iSolid is an independent developer that has made apps for Apple devices since 2012. Besides Textify, iSolid makes QuickScan, a document scanner with OCR for iPhone and iPad, PDFZone, which renames PDF files by their content on Mac, and SubShifter, which syncs and fixes subtitles. See all iSolid apps.

Press and media

Writing about Textify? You can use the app icon (1024 px) and the screenshots on these pages. For questions, review copies or interviews, write to textify@isolid.be.

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