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A local-first capture dock · Windows 10 & 11
Capture a region, window, full screen, or scrolling page. Then extract its text, mark it up, dictate, or listen — without sending your captures away.
Capture, OCR, dictation and read-aloud run on your PC. No service account or network connection.
Free · local · MIT open source
One motion · three parts
Your screen is full of things you can see but cannot quite hold. Octadock turns those pixels into something ready for your next move.
How it works
One capture. Three clear stages. No detour through a pile of heavyweight apps.
Snip a region, window, full screen, or scrolling page. It lands on your shelf and clipboard, ready for the next move.
Screen recording is Beta: video with optional microphone and system audio, both off unless you turn them on.
Pull text from an image, mark up what matters, dictate into any app, or hear a selection read aloud — without breaking your flow.
Dictation uses a voice model you import from disk, then runs entirely on your PC.
Annotate a capture, bundle evidence into a Context, or find something you copied earlier. Your shelf, history, Context, and clipboard remain on your PC.
All six · at a glance
The three chapters show the flow. Here is every instrument inside it, in one clear index.
Region, window, full screen, or a scrolling page, straight to the shelf and your clipboard.
Pull selectable text out of any pixels with the local Windows engine. No network call, ever.
Speak into any app. Import a Parakeet or Whisper model and dictate locally, with no service account.
Hear a selection, file, clipboard, or the OCR of a region read back with on-device Windows voices.
Arrows, boxes, counters, text, highlighter, and blur to redact before anyone else sees it.
A searchable local history of what you copied, plus local text transforms.
Also aboard: screen recording (Beta) with optional microphone and system audio, and a local Context Stack. Both are described plainly in the records.
Local-first, precisely
Screenshots, video recordings, OCR text, history, and clipboard entries are stored locally. Octadock does not upload them. Every exception is named below.
Capture, annotation, OCR, Windows read-aloud, clipboard history, and local text tools make no network calls.
Import a Parakeet or Whisper model from disk. Speech is processed locally; read-aloud uses installed Windows voices.
Your workspace
Local folders. Local processing. Open source.
| Feature | Storage | Processing |
|---|---|---|
| Captures and annotations | Your local Octadock folder | This PC |
| Dictation | Imported speech models | Local inference |
| Context packets | A folder you choose | Local Markdown and attachments |
Recording is Beta. Screen recording captures video with optional microphone and system audio — opt-in, off by default — and stays labeled Beta until real-hardware acceptance is done.
Context is local. Collect captures, notes and files; review the contents, then export a bundle to disk.
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For power users
Use the Octadock CLI, octadock:// URLs, and global hotkeys from scripts, AutoHotkey, or agent tooling. Commands are validated locally and passed to the tray app through a per-user local pipe; nothing listens on the network.
# grab a region straight to the clipboard
> octadock capture-area --action copy
# OCR a fixed region as lines
> octadock ocr --area 100,120,800,600 --mode lines
# speak whatever you copied
> octadock read --clipboardFree and open source
Yours.
Use it, inspect it, change it. Octadock is available under the MIT license, with every local feature included.
Windows 10 & 11
Free to use, with all local features included. Windows 10 and 11.
0.3.0-alpha.2 · Windows 10 (2004+) and Windows 11, x64. Free portable preview. This build is unsigned; read the installation notes and checksum on the download page.