Screenshots,
the moment dusk falls.

A fast, no-nonsense screenshot tool for Windows. Capture the whole screen, an area, or a single window — straight to disk. Global hotkeys, a tray icon, and none of the clutter.

Download for Windows View on GitHub

Download & run — no installer, no dependencies. Extract the zip, launch duskscreen.exe. ~16 MB.

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DuskScreen-1.0.14-win64.zip42a173b52159c3dca78dd3944f40c305b6a6838c6c9b58b708d2813de4690545 duskscreen.exe5c84ca9dcb4308353e55b7bce97709e5098c2f34687a708ca081caaf6a6f5eaf

DuskScreen

Screen

Area

Window

Options

Folder

Small tool. Sharp focus.

Everything you need to grab a screenshot, and nothing you don't.

Three capture modes

Whole screen, a rubber-band area you draw, or a specific window — picked with a crosshair.

Global hotkeys

Fire any capture mode from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut. It lives quietly in the tray.

Straight to disk

Saved as PNG, JPG or BMP with your own naming scheme. No cloud, no accounts, no upload — ever.

Light & portable

A single self-contained folder, ~16 MB. Drop a config file beside it to run fully portable.

Cursor & optimize

Optionally bake in the mouse cursor, and squeeze PNGs smaller with optipng if it's installed.

Free & open source

GPL-licensed and built on Qt 6. A modern fork of the long-running Lightscreen project.

Running in under a minute

No installer, no setup wizard, no admin rights.

Download

Grab DuskScreen-1.0.14-win64.zip from the download button above.

Extract

Unzip it anywhere you like — your Desktop, a USB stick, wherever.

Run

Launch duskscreen.exe, set your folder & hotkeys once, and start capturing.

Screenshots,the moment dusk falls.