Screenshot Mockups

Make a screenshot
look intentional.

A bare screenshot dropped into a changelog or a landing page looks like a bare screenshot. Framed on a background with a little padding and a soft shadow, the same image looks like you meant it. Quick Gen does that in the app you already captured with, offline, for free.

Compose modeBackground, frame, padding, rounding and shadow, then Save as new. The original capture is left untouched.

Everything the
paid ones charge for.

Ten gradients

Indigo, blush, ocean, lime, peach, grape, sky, slate, coral and night, each with an adjustable angle. Save your own gradients and solid colours to a palette that holds twenty-four of each.

Six wallpapers

Soft multi-blob glows in the style of a modern desktop wallpaper: aurora, sequoia, mint, bigsur, ember and bloom. Or use a solid colour, or upload an image of your own.

Window and browser frames

Wrap the capture in a plain window or a browser frame with an address bar, in a light or dark theme. Or leave it unframed and let the padding do the work.

Padding, rounding, shadow

Three sliders that do most of the work. Breathing room around the capture, softened corners, and a shadow that lifts it off the background.

Aspect ratios that fit

Auto, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16 and 3:2, so the export drops straight into a blog header, a social post, or a phone-shaped slot without a second crop.

Annotations come along

Arrows, callouts and redactions work in Compose too, and switching to Markup and back keeps the framing you set up. The marks are stored in source pixels, so they stay put at any export size.

Why not a web tool?

The usual way to get this look is to capture a screenshot, open a browser tab, upload the image to somebody else's server, drag some sliders, download the result, and find the watermark. That is five steps and a stranger's hard drive for something your capture tool should already do.

In Quick Gen it is the same window you were already in. Press Ctrl+Q, click Open in Studio on the preview card, switch to Compose, and save. Nothing leaves your machine, there is no account, and there is no watermark on the way out.

It is also the reason this is worth comparing against CleanShot X, which does backgrounds beautifully and only runs on a Mac, and against Snagit, which wants $63 a year.

Good for

Changelogs and release notes — one framed capture per entry, consistent background, done in the time it takes to write the paragraph.

Landing pages — a product shot that sits on the page instead of floating on it, at the exact aspect ratio your layout wants.

Social posts— 1:1 or 9:16 with padding, so the interesting part is not cropped away by somebody else's thumbnail logic.

Docs and tutorials — a framed screenshot with numbered callouts reads as a step, not as a stray image.

Ready to try it?

Download Quick Gen and start capturing in seconds. Free, open source, no account needed.

Free · Open source · Windows 10+ · <100 MB