Screen Draw

Native Rust desktop tool for taking a screenshot, drawing a capture shape on it, and copying the selected result as a transparent PNG.

Install / Uninstall

Download the Windows release executable:

https://github.com/devfemibadmus/screen-draw/releases/latest/download/screen-draw-windows-x86_64.exe

Run screen-draw-windows-x86_64.exe once to install Screen Draw. It installs itself locally and registers:

Ctrl+Alt+D

After installation, use Ctrl+Alt+D to open Screen Draw.

To uninstall, run:

screen-draw-windows-x86_64.exe --uninstall

Features

• Fullscreen screenshot capture on startup.
• Shape tools:
  • Freehand
  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
• Shape picker dropdown:
  • The toolbar shows only the active shape.
  • Hover the active shape to pick the other shape tools.
  • The currently active shape is hidden from the dropdown.
• Remembers the last selected shape tool across launches.
• Freehand drawing smoothing.
• Shape selection, moving, and resizing.
• Resize handles with cursor changes.
• Selected-shape actions:
  • Copy
  • Paste copied shape
  • Remove
• Fill mode toggle:
  • Filled icon captures inside the shape.
  • Outline icon captures outside the shape.
• Ctrl+C copies the current capture result to the clipboard and closes the app.
• If nothing is drawn, Ctrl+C copies the full screenshot.
• Close button in the toolbar.
• Clear action appears as a dropdown under the close button.
• Escape closes the app.

Clipboard Output

The app copies PNG-style RGBA image data to the system clipboard.

For drawn shapes, the copied image is cropped to the selected area. Pixels outside the selected mask are transparent.

Not Currently Included

• Screen recording
• MP4 export
• Click-through/live screen overlay mode
• Multi-monitor selection
• File save dialog

Those were explored but are not part of the current committed state.

Build

cargo build --release

Run

cargo run

Windows Install

Windows users should receive only one file:

screen-draw.exe

On first run, the executable installs itself to:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Screen Draw\screen-draw.exe

It also registers a Start Menu hotkey:

Ctrl+Alt+D

After that, users launch Screen Draw with Ctrl+Alt+D. They do not need the source code, Rust, Cargo, scripts, or this repository.

To uninstall:

screen-draw.exe --uninstall

Release Build

For development/release packaging, build the exe:

cargo build --release

Then distribute only:

target\release\screen-draw.exe

GitHub Releases

Pushing to main runs the Windows-only release workflow:

.github/workflows/release.yml

The workflow:

• Computes the next patch version tag, such as v0.1.1.
• Builds x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
• Publishes one release asset:

screen-draw-windows-x86_64.exe

That executable is self-installing on first run and registers Ctrl+Alt+D.