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Free and open source under the MIT licence, published by Microsoft.

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  • Over thirty utilities in one installer, each of which can be enabled or disabled
  • FancyZones window layouts and Keyboard Manager remapping cover two of the biggest gaps in Windows
  • All OCR runs on the device, with no internet connection and nothing uploaded
  • Several capture modes plus post-grab cleanup and spreadsheet-style editing
  • Windows only, and some utilities need Windows 11
  • Running everything at once adds background processes and memory use
  • Windows 10 or later only, because it uses the Windows OCR API
  • Higher-accuracy AI recognition needs Windows 11 on a Copilot+ PC and the Store install
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: MIT
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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