PopClip for macOS: Tool for more productivity in word processing

Do you work a lot with text on the Mac and want to increase your productivity or workflow when inserting website links or email addresses, formatting words, sentences and paragraphs, and other tasks? Then I have something for you. Developer Nick Moore's PopClip Mac app gives you the ability to edit text as you select it with a customized pop-up menu. Also for those switching from Microsoft Office Word Apple Pages the PopClip tool might be ideal ;)

The PopClip app for Mac OS X and macOS from Apple helps you to create and process text. PopClip from Pilotmoon Software works not only in Pages, Word and TextEditor, but also in dozens of other programs and with web services!

PopClip Mac app

You can download PopClip from “Pilotmoon Software”, behind which the developer Nick Moore is, as a free demo version from his website or you can get the full version from Apple's Mac App Store for 10,99 EUR. If you make a living from text creation or just want to increase your productivity and your workflow when dealing with words digitally, then it can be worthwhile. The software is compatible with current and slightly older versions of Mac OS X and macOS:

• Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
• Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
• macOS 10.12 Sierra
• macOS 10.13 High Sierra

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PopClip download

If you want to download the free demo, then take a look on the Pilotmoon page past. If you want the full version of PopClip, you can download and install it - as mentioned above - of course via the Mac App Store. Just click the box:

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170+ extensions for individual productivity

Currently, at the beginning of May 2018, there are 171 extensions for PopClip that you can download individually and integrate into the tool. So you don't have to work your way through a large package of functions and options, but instead integrate exactly the tasks that you want the software to do quickly and easily. If you mark a piece of text after purchasing and setting up PopClip, then you will be shown exactly the formatting options that you actually use. Examples of the extensions are as follows (download available right here):

• Select / mark all
• Highlight selected text
• Formatting in bold, italic, underline
• Convert superscripts, subscripts, to capital letters
• Put quotation marks around the selected text
• Put brackets around the selected text - select from (), [], {} and <>
• Full or half width (for characters from Japan, China and Korea)
• Show number of words or number of characters
• Speech output of the selected text
• Translate with Google, Bing, Microsoft Translator, Translate Tab and / or Mate Translate
• Insert text in the notes app (Apple Notes, Evernote, OneNote, Paper, etc.)
• Other usable / linked apps: Scrivener, Ulysses, OmniFocus, Things 3, 2Do, Wunderlist, TextEdit, Email, Messages, Maps, etc.
• Connection with calendar and other applications as well as with search engines such as Google (including images, Maps, Scholar, etc.), Baidu, Bing, DuckDuckGo, StartPage and searches from Wikipedia, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, IMDb, LinkedIn, Facebook, ...
• And a lot more - take a look!

Johannes Domke

After graduating from high school, Johannes completed an apprenticeship as a business assistant specializing in foreign languages. But then he decided to research and write, which resulted in his independence. For several years he has been working for Sir Apfelot, among others. His articles include product introductions, news, manuals, video games, consoles, and more. He follows Apple keynotes live via stream.