Screenshot Capture
Press Ctrl+Q. A fullscreen overlay drops. Drag to select any region. Your screenshot is on your clipboard before you lift your finger. That's the entire workflow.
Ctrl+QHotkey, drag, release. Nothing between you and the clipboard.
A transparent overlay covers your entire screen. Your cursor becomes a crosshair. No windows open, no menus appear — just the overlay on top of whatever you're looking at.
Click and drag to draw a rectangle around what you want to capture. Pixel dimensions appear in real time so you always know the exact size of your selection.
The moment you release, the screenshot lands on your clipboard. Paste it into Slack, Figma, an email, a document — anywhere that accepts images. A floating preview card also appears, in case you want to pin it or open it in Studio.
Speed is worth nothing if you have to do it twice. The overlay knows where your windows are, magnifies the pixel under your cursor, and will hold the selection if you ask it to.
Snap · loupe · adjustHover a window to outline exactly what you would get, sample any pixel through the loupe, and hold Alt to fine-tune the edges before capturing.
Click a window and you get exactly that window, no fiddling with edges. Hovering outlines it and names it, with its size and "Click to capture this window" on the label, and it picks the window actually in front rather than the smallest one under the cursor. While you drag, the selection snaps to nearby window edges; hold Ctrl to ignore them.
A magnifier follows the cursor showing the pixels around it, with a live coordinate readout and the colour underneath. For when the edge you want is one pixel wide.
Releasing the mouse captures instantly. Hold Alt as you release and that one capture settles for adjustment instead: drag the edges, nudge with the arrow keys, confirm with Enter. Settings can flip which one is the default.
Every capture is immediately placed on your clipboard. No "save as" dialog, no file picker, no extra clicks. The screenshot is ready to paste the instant you finish selecting.
Choose your clipboard format in settings: PNG for lossless quality, JPG for smaller size, WebP for modern compression, or base64 Data URI for embedding directly in code.
The crosshair cursor and real-time dimension display let you capture exactly the region you need. No guessing, no cropping after the fact.
The overlay appears on whichever display your cursor is on. Multiple monitors just work — no configuration, no "select which screen" dialog.
Want a copy on disk too? Point Quick Gen at a folder and every capture is automatically saved with a timestamp. Or keep it clipboard-only — your choice.
Ctrl+Q is the default, but you can rebind the capture hotkey to any combination that fits your workflow. The shortcut is global — it works from any application.
Most screenshot tools want you to create an account, choose a subscription plan, and upload your images to their cloud. Quick Gen does none of that. It's a local tool that captures your screen and puts the image on your clipboard.
The entire app runs on your machine. No network requests, no telemetry, no analytics. Your screenshots never leave your computer unless you choose to share them.
Quick Gen is open source under the MIT license. You can read every line of code, fork it, modify it, and distribute it freely.
Download Quick Gen and start capturing in seconds. Free, open source, no account needed.
Free · Open source · Windows 10+ · <100 MB