Octadock
FREE + OPEN SOURCE · WINDOWS

Grab anything
on your screen.
It stays yours.

Screenshots, text, voice and video.
One little dock. Everything runs on your PC.

No account. No subscription. Your files stay local.

Try it: drag anywhere on this desktop

Interactive preview Drag across the blue canvas or try the dock. This demo only captures this page.

Always one keystroke away

Press Ctrl+Shift+4 or hover the Dock, and the selection frame is already under your cursor. Every capture lands on the Shelf and your clipboard at the same time, ready to drop into any app. No folders to dig through, no flow to break.

  • Area, window, full screen, timer
  • Scrolling pages, stitched into one image
  • Straight to the Shelf and the clipboard
From your Shelf. Into your conversation.

Text, voice and video, without the cloud

Pull the text out of any pixels, dictate into any app, hear a selection read back, record what happens. Every one of these runs on this PC.

Copy text from any capture

On-device recognition with the Windows engine. Select a region, get the words.

Text in a screenshotSelect the words you need. Copy them as text.
Text copied · 2 lines

Dictate anywhere

Live partials at the cursor, from a model you import.

Listening · local model
Send the lake shot to Sam before Friday, and keep the reflection

Read it aloud

Any selection, file or clipboard, in an installed Windows voice.

Microsoft Aria

Record your screen Beta

MP4 video with optional microphone and system audio, both off until you turn them on.

Recording 00:12 Microphone System audio

Scrolling capture Beta

Long pages, chats and documents, stitched into one clean image.

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Clipboard history

Optional, searchable, and stored only on this PC.

Send the lake shot to Sam before…2 min
Activity.png9 min
octadock://capture-area?action=copy1 h

Make your point, fast

Open a capture from the Shelf and draw on it. Copy flattens the marks into the image; the original stays untouched in the Library.

  • Pen, arrows, boxes, counters, text
  • Blur to redact before you share
  • Highlight and crop
Lake, evening
UndoDone
A captured illustration of an alpine lake with pen annotations

Never redo a screenshot

Every capture, recording and OCR result stays in the Library on this PC. Find it, restore it, bundle it into a Context with notes and files, and export the folder wherever you work.

  • Search and filter by type
  • Capture info, one click away
  • Context bundles, exported as a folder
The Octadock Library: six captures in a grid with filters, search and a floating selection toolbar

There is no cloud to leak into

Octadock ships with no servers, no accounts and no telemetry. Captures are written to this PC and nowhere else. It works exactly the same on a plane.

  • No account, no telemetry, no update checks
  • OCR and dictation run on-device
  • Everything under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Octadock
Read the MIT license
Octadock Settings, Voice models: engine set to Local Parakeet, models imported from disk

Built for everyday Windows workflows

Start with a shortcut. Keep going with your keyboard, your second monitor or your own scripts.

Keyboard-first

Ctrl+Shift plus one number does the everyday work. Assign the rest in Settings, which flags conflicts as you type.

Ctrl+Shift+4Capture area
Ctrl+Shift+3Capture full screen
Ctrl+Shift+2Toggle dictation

Script it

A CLI, octadock:// URLs and global hotkeys, with JSON output for your scripts. Nothing listens on the network.

>_Windows PowerShell+−□✕
PS C:\> octadock capture-area --action copy
PS C:\> octadock ocr --mode lines --json
PS C:\> octadock record --select-area
PS C:\> start octadock://self-timer?seconds=3
PS C:\>

Context bundles

Drop captures, notes and files into a Context, then export it as a folder or a zip for whoever needs it next.

The Choose a Context window, with a drop zone for files from the Shelf

Every monitor

Mixed DPI, negative origins, and a Dock that remembers its place on each display.

Octadock
2560 × 1440 · 150%
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1200 × 1920 · 100%

A small app. A better flow.

Keep the good bits.
Get on with your day.

From the first screenshot to the next idea.
Octadock stays within reach, and out of your way.

Download for Windows 0.3.0-alpha.2 · Windows 10 & 11 · x64 · Unsigned preview

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