Universal Copy

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.3
74.9K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Universal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that wonā€™t let you or inside images.

In any app, launch Universal Copy, select the text you want to copy, itā€™s done!

Easy. Simple. Super fast.


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MAIN FEATURES

- Normal mode: copy text from any application such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Chrome, WhatsApp, Tumblr, News Republic, Snapchat...
- Scanner mode: copy text inside images (OCR technology). It currently works with Chinese, Devanagari (Hindi...), Japanese, Korean and Latin (English, Portuguese...) character sets.
- Smart detection of entities: addresses, emails, phone numbers, @, #... are automatically detected by Universal Copy.
- Copy-Paste in 1-tap: perform quick actions (translate, locate, shareā€¦) on the text you selected. This saves a lot of app switching.
- Scroll mode: select texts from multiple screens or apps to copy them all.
- Harvest mode: launch Harvest mode and capture all entities that you encounter while you navigate.


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A FEW EXAMPLES WITH UNIVERSAL COPY

You can use Universal Copy to:
- copy Youtube comments (the app normally prevents you to)
- copy text that is inside an image
- copy all the text that appears on your screen
- copy all the text from multiple pages and apps (with scroll mode)
- extract an address inside a text message and open Google Maps to locate it in no time
- detect multiple hashtags on Instagram or Twitter and copy them all at the same time, even they are not originally next to one another
- extract all the accounts tagged in a post or comments

These are only a few examples, the possibilities with Universal Copy are limitless!


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HOW TO USE IT?

1. Go to the App / Picture / Document you want to copy text from
2. Launch the Universal Copy mode from your notification bar or via a shortcut. Select Normal or Scanner mode.
3. šŸŖ„Ā The magic happens: Universal Copy smartly detects all text areas and extracts addresses, emails, phone numbers, @, #...
4. Select the text(s) you want to copy or a quick action (translate, locate, shareā€¦), itā€™s done!


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HOW TO SET IT UP?

1. Download and install the app
2. Activate the Universal Copy accessibility service (Settings > Accessibility). This service is required for the app to work properly.
3. Universal Copy is ready, you can launch it anytime via: your notification drawer, a tile, a long press on a physical button of your phone

Note: The service can be deactivated automatically by your Android system, then you should enable the setting ā€˜let app run in backgroundā€™ in Universal Copy and disable battery optimizer for Universal Copy. Unfortunately, this matter is out of our hands.


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IN-APP CONTENTS: UNIVERSAL COPY PLUS

Universal Copy is free to use and contains ads.
We believe that everyone should be able to copy in any app. That's why we decided to make Universal Copy free for everyone. Ads suck, but that's the only way for our team to keep on improving Universal Copy for you.
Universal Copy Plus removes ads and shows us your support.


ā˜… Featured by Android Police ā˜…

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/09/universal-copy-can-copy-text-fields-from-apps-that-dont-let-you-copy-and-paste-natively/

ā˜…ā˜…ā˜…ā˜…ā˜… Do not hesitate to rate the app and write a review if you like Universal Copy

This app uses Accessibility services. (BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE to access the text displayed on your screen to be able to copy it)
Updated on
Sep 13, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
73.1K reviews
Cody Diehl (diehlc)
February 1, 2024
absolutely essential this day in age. Google needs to make text handling within apps a standardized thing. there is far too many apps that will not allow you to select text anymore. that used to be so rare. now it's truly rare to find an app that allows you to copy text.... this fixes that problem in a simple and efficient way that has been a godsend. thank you very much.
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James Timmerman
January 11, 2024
Using this app requires configuring a couple OS settings and understanding the drastically different behaviors vs virtually all other "normal" apps. In many use scenarios, using it requires careful selection of various simultaneous event prompts. It took me 20+ uses over a week to become proficient, and to appreciate how elegant and robust this tool is. The OCR is amazingly accurate. I bought the + version to support dev. I'm using V6.3.5 on LG-G8 OS V12.
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Preet Raval
July 3, 2023
This app is really great. Ever since the update, there's a weird glitch where you have to turn on subtitles for every single video. It used to be where you click the subtitle button once and turn them on and click again to turn them off... it's minor, but it's pretty annoying as someone who has SPD. Please fix it! Another bug that's been there since I downloaded is that sometimes you get a few seconds to halfway through a video, and it restarts the whole thing. If there's a way to fix that, that
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What's new

v6.3.5
Update to newest Android SDK
Bug fixes

v6
Universal Copy now smartly detects entities: addresses, emails, phone numbers, @, #.
You can perform quick actions on the selected text: Translate, Locate, ...
OCR support for new languages: Devanagari, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
Ads are no longer shown on app's start and the loading problems should be fixed