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Desktop Apps
Helvety Screen Tools
Windows app for hotkey screenshots, a transparent Live Draw layer on your desktop, and a gallery with a built-in PNG editor.
Helvety Screen Tools
Desktop AppsApr 21, 2026Art by Ferdinand Hodler
Windows app for hotkey screenshots, a transparent Live Draw layer on your desktop, and a gallery with a built-in PNG editor.
About
Use a global shortcut to freeze the screen, snap to a window or drag a rectangle, then save or copy the capture. Draw on the live desktop with Live Draw, browse saved PNGs in the home gallery, and open them in the built-in editor to crop, blur, highlight, add text, borders, arrows, a magnifier, or sample colors.
Distribution
Free with published source on GitHub; see the repository LICENSE for the exact open-source terms. Releases live on GitHub. Use the Go to App button on this page to open GitHub Releases, choose the architecture that matches your machine, and download the ZIP.
Workflow highlights
- Frozen overlay selection with window snap or free regions.
- Live Draw shapes, freehand, and sparkle on a transparent fullscreen overlay.
- Home gallery of PNG captures with Recycle Bin delete.
- Built-in PNG editor: Canvas, Text, Border, Blur, Highlight, Arrow, Magnifier, Crop, and Color.
- Separate hotkeys for capture versus Live Draw, with modifier ergonomics.
- Tray behavior, optional autostart on packaged builds, and quality tuning from Settings.
Documentation
Packaging modes, keyboard maps, and release notes stay in the project README so the latest details are always next to the source.
Installation
- Open GitHub Releases
Use the Go to App button on this page to open the Helvety Screen Tools GitHub Releases page.
- Download the ZIP asset
Choose the latest release and download the ZIP for your platform (for example win-x64 or win-arm64).
- Extract the archive
Extract the ZIP to a folder you keep on disk, then open that folder in File Explorer.
- Run the app
Start helvety.screentools.exe from the extracted folder and configure hotkeys in Settings if needed.
Access
Current Helvety products in this catalog are free to use with no paid tiers or subscriptions.
Features
- Global hotkey screenshot capture
- Frozen-screen selection overlay with window snapping
- Live Draw fullscreen annotation overlay
- Home gallery of PNG captures with Recycle Bin delete
- Built-in PNG editor with crop, blur, highlight, text, borders, arrows, magnifier, and color picker
- Shape tools: arrows, lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and free draw
- Configurable hotkeys and shortcut modifiers
- System tray support with settings-driven behavior
- Free with published source on GitHub
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11