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ShellNewHandler VS Awnsy

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ShellNewHandler

SourceForge.net: ShellNewHandler details page

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Awnsy

Menu bar translator for macOS. Select text, press ⌘C twice, and the translation appears over the window. Runs a local model: no account, no key, offline.

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Which is more popular?

Based on our record, ShellNewHandler seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 2 times since March 2021.

social mentions
2 vs 0
File Sharing popularity
100% vs 0%

Base details

Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.

ShellNewHandler
Awnsy
Website sourceforge.net awnsy.com
Pricing —
Freemium $1.99 / Monthly (Pro)
Platforms —
Mac
Company — 1 - 9 employees
Listed in
Cloud Storage Monitoring Tools File Sharing Website Monitoring +1
Translation AI Translation Mac Tools Translation Service Languages AI Productivity Language Translation +5

About ShellNewHandler and Awnsy

In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.

ShellNewHandler
Awnsy

No description of ShellNewHandler yet.

Awnsy translates text anywhere on your Mac, even text you can't select. Select text in any app and press ⌘C twice, or drag a box over part of the screen, and the translation streams into a small popup right where you are working. The translation model is downloaded inside the app and runs on...

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Features and specs

What each product offers, as listed by its team.

ShellNewHandler 0 features
Awnsy 6 features

No features have been listed yet.

  • Double ⌘C translation
    Select text in any app, press ⌘C twice or a hotkey; the translation streams into a popup over the window
  • Screen area translation
    Drag a box over images, scanned PDFs or video; on-device OCR reads and translates the text
  • On-device translation
    Local models run through MLX: no account, no key, offline, text stays on the Mac
  • 78 languages
    Target language and model switchable right in the popup
  • Bring Your Own Key
    Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, or any OpenAI-compatible server
  • Read aloud and 14 UI languages
    Translations can be read aloud; interface localized into 14 languages

Analysis

An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.

ShellNewHandler
Awnsy

Overall verdict

  • ShellNewHandler is a niche, lightweight utility hosted on SourceForge designed to give users more control over the Windows 'New' context menu (the ShellNew menu). It can be considered good for its specific narrow use case, but it is an older, minimally maintained tool that may not suit all users, especially those on modern Windows versions.

Why this product is good

  • Provides direct control over customizing the Windows right-click 'New' menu, allowing users to add or remove file type entries
  • Lightweight and free, without bundled bloatware typical of some other free utilities
  • Simple and focused in scope, making it easy to understand for its specific purpose
  • Open distribution via SourceForge allows transparency and no-cost access

Recommended for

  • Power users who want to declutter or customize the Windows New context menu
  • IT administrators managing standardized desktop environments across multiple machines
  • Users comfortable with older utility-style tools and Windows registry-related tweaks
  • Not recommended for casual users seeking modern, actively supported software with regular updates

No analysis of Awnsy yet.

Category popularity

How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.

Score bands 0–20 21–40 41–50 51–60 61–100
ShellNewHandler
Awnsy
100% 100%
File Sharing
0% 0%
0% 0%
Productivity
100% 100%
100% 100%
Cloud Storage
0% 0%
0% 0%
Language Translation
100% 100%

Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing ShellNewHandler and Awnsy.

How would you describe the primary audience of your product?

Awnsy's answer:

Mac users who work or read in languages that aren't their native one and translate many times a day: documentation, PDFs, emails, chats, screenshots. Especially people who don't want their text to leave the machine, or who need translation offline. Requires macOS 15 or later on an Apple silicon Mac.

What makes your product unique?

Awnsy's answer:

The translation model is downloaded inside the app and runs locally on the Mac. There is no account, no API key and no internet needed, and the text never leaves the machine. Three on-device models are included, each covering its own set of languages; the default, Hy-MT2 1.8B, translates a sentence in about a second on an M1 MacBook Air.

It also translates text you can't select: drag a box around an image, a scanned PDF or a video and on-device OCR reads it. Users who want cloud quality can add their own OpenAI or Anthropic key, or use any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

What's the story behind your product?

Awnsy's answer:

I'm Alexey, a software developer for about 15 years, and Awnsy is my first Mac app. I work in languages that aren't my native one and read a lot of documentation in PDFs, and I got tired of the copy, switch to a browser, paste, read, switch back loop, dozens of times a day.

The first version, in May 2025, was a hotkey that sent the clipboard to the OpenAI API and showed the answer in a popup. It worked, but it needed a key and internet, and the text left the machine. In summer 2026 the translation moved onto the Mac itself: the model downloads inside the app and runs locally. Choosing the model took a script that ran several translation models over the same texts and scored them. The one kept as default, Hy-MT2 1.8B, translates a sentence in about a second on an M1 MacBook Air; the 4B models scored about the same but were 2 to 5 times slower. Double ⌘C and screen area translation came later and are now the two most used ways in.

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

Awnsy's answer:

  • Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit (native, no Electron, no web view)
  • MLX via mlx-swift-lm for on-device models: Hy-MT2 1.8B, TranslateGemma 4B, Qwen3.5 4B
  • Apple Vision for on-device OCR
  • StoreKit for in-app purchases
  • macOS Keychain for API keys; fully sandboxed

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

Awnsy's answer:

  • Local by default: unlike DeepL for Mac or Google Translate, the default engine runs on the Mac, so it works offline and nothing is sent to a server.
  • Ships its own model: Easydict offers offline translation only through Apple Translate or a separately installed Ollama; Awnsy downloads its model inside the app.
  • Wider language list than the built-in macOS translation: it covers languages Apple's list lacks and needs no Apple ID, Siri or region.
  • Selected text and screen areas in one app: double ⌘C for selectable text, a drag-to-translate box for images, scanned PDFs and video.
  • No account for any tier; text translation is free and unlimited.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.

ShellNewHandler 2 mentions
Awnsy 0 mentions
  • I recently got libreoffice, but now the new option in right click looks like a mess. Can someone help me get rid of them please?
    Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
  • This menu should be easy to add/remove programs to... Who is really creating Access Databases from this menu often enough to keep it here? (Not me!) Is there an easy way to edit this?
    I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago

Tracking Awnsy since Oct 2026.

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