The best AI screenshot tools for Windows

What to check before you choose

• Where it works: every app, or only the browser?
• When it looks: only when you ask, or continuously in the background?
• What happens to the image: kept with your history, used for training, or discarded after the answer?
• What it gives back: search results, a chat reply, or a specific, structured answer such as a table or a fix?

Microsoft Copilot and Click to Do

Copilot on Windows can be shown an app or window and asked about it during a voice conversation — the feature Microsoft calls Vision; see ScreenFeel vs Copilot Vision for how the two differ. How much of Vision you get depends on your Microsoft plan and on usage limits Microsoft says will vary. Click to Do is the faster gesture — hold the Windows key and click something on screen for a menu of actions — but it requires a Copilot+ PC. Copilot sends what it is shown to Microsoft's cloud; Click to Do analyses the screen on the PC itself and hands only some actions, such as web searches, to online services.

ChatGPT's desktop app

ChatGPT's desktop app for Windows can send the window in front of you into a chat — press both Alt keys for what OpenAI calls an appshot — and the older app, now called ChatGPT Classic, takes screenshots from its Alt+Space window. It is a general chat assistant rather than a capture tool, so each question is a new upload into a conversation, stored with your chat history under OpenAI's settings for your account.

Google Lens, in Chrome and on the desktop

Right-click a page in Chrome, choose Search with Google Lens, and drag over anything to get matches, text and often an AI overview. Chrome's Lens only sees the browser tab; Google's app for Windows, released in English in 2026, opens with Alt+Space and lets Lens select anything on screen. Both are free and excellent for identifying things and shopping, and both send what you select to Google.

Cluely and Highlight AI

Both are always-available desktop assistants that can see your screen and help in real time, aimed at meetings and work across apps. Both have paid plans, and both process what they see in the cloud. The comparisons ScreenFeel vs Cluely and ScreenFeel vs Highlight AI set out the differences row by row, including when each is the better buy.

ScreenFeel, built around private capture

ScreenFeel is a Windows screenshot app with sixteen AI lenses, each built for one job and answering in a fixed shape: Read text copies text verbatim, To data turns tables and charts into CSV, Fix error diagnoses an error, Translate translates in place, Find secrets flags what should not be shared, and Auto works out what you captured. It answers Print Screen, works in any app, keeps every capture in a searchable local library, and has a full editor and presenter tools.

Nothing watches your screen. A lens sends one image, once, when you run it, to a model hosted under zero data retention that keeps nothing and trains on nothing. Capturing, editing and the library are free without an account; the lenses come with a free monthly allowance.

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