Quick Describe
Press a key in any app and get a description of what's on your screen, made on your PC.
A small Windows app that describes the screen, the active window, the item with focus, a picture on the clipboard or a picture file, using the AI built into Windows on Copilot+ PCs, and reads out the text in it. Nothing is uploaded, and there are no accounts. It's built for keyboard and screen reader use, and works with JAWS, NVDA and Narrator: the result is spoken as it arrives and waits in a box you can read by line, word or character, and Escape takes you back to where you were. File, Save Screenshot (Ctrl+S) keeps the picture it described, and Edit, Copy Screenshot (Ctrl+Shift+S) puts it on the clipboard. The hotkeys and description type can be changed, and it can start when you sign in and keep running in the notification area. It needs a Copilot+ PC with a recent version of Windows 11 for descriptions. On other PCs it reads the text in pictures: you get the text alone, and it says once why there's no description. The installer is signed, adds a Start menu entry and keeps Quick Describe up to date, and Help, Report a Bug sends a problem report without needing a GitHub account.
Get Quick Describe
- Install Quick Describe for Windows (installs and keeps it up to date)
- Read the Quick Describe guide, with every keyboard shortcut
- All releases on GitHub — Quick Describe
- Track releases for Quick Describe — feed for an RSS reader
- Report a problem or suggest an idea — Quick Describe
Support
- Email for support — support@theideaplace.net
- Subscribe to the projects mailing list, change your options or read the archives — mailing list page
- Join the mailing list by email — send any message to projects-subscribe@theideaplace.net
- Post to the mailing list once you have joined — projects@theideaplace.net
- Leave the mailing list — send any message to projects-unsubscribe@theideaplace.net
The mailing list is one place for questions, tips and ideas about any of these projects. Whichever way you join, you get a confirmation email; reply to it or follow its link to finish. Past messages are in public archives on the list page, including your name and a lightly disguised email address, and search engines can find them.