📄️ Installation

Install OnText on macOS, open the DMG, grant permissions, and confirm the menu bar app is ready for text actions.

📄️ First Steps

Start using OnText in minutes by selecting text, pressing the hotkey, and running your first macOS text action.

OnText requires Accessibility permission to detect text selection and simulate keyboard events.

The floating panel is OnText's main interface—a sleek action bar that appears when you need it.

Use OnText Inline AI to rewrite, summarize, replace, and copy selected text with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Ollama.

Learn the default OnText actions for selected text, including search, copy, translate, character count, and Large Type.

Create custom OnText actions with URLs, scripts, Shortcuts, regex context rules, icons, and selected-text placeholders.

Create OnText URL actions and app deep links that open web pages, searches, and workflows with selected text.

Run shell scripts on selected text in OnText using placeholders, commands, and macOS automation workflows.

Automate selected text with OnText AppleScript actions for macOS apps, dialogs, notifications, and custom workflows.

Connect OnText with macOS Shortcuts so selected text can become input for personal automations and app workflows.

Use OnText placeholders like selected text, clipboard, prompt, date, time, and paste in custom actions and scripts.

Reference every OnText keyboard shortcut for showing the panel, running actions, navigating settings, and working faster.

Fix common OnText issues with permissions, hotkeys, excluded apps, floating panel behavior, and selected text detection.