Secret Screenshot
Secret Screenshot quietly takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds and reads the words in each one. Search for any word you saw, an order number, a name, an error, and jump straight to the moment it was on screen. Everything stays on your PC.
Search for any word your screen has shown.
See it in action
About Secret Screenshot
You saw it an hour ago. An order number, a price, a message, an error. Secret Screenshot keeps a picture of your screen every few seconds, so you can find it again.
A screenshot every few seconds
Choose a folder and press Start capturing. Secret Screenshot takes a screenshot every 3, 5, 10 or 30 seconds, or every 1, 5 or 15 minutes, and saves it there. It works quietly in the background and never gets in your way. Each new screenshot slides onto a film strip in the window as it is taken.
Search everything your screen showed
Secret Screenshot reads the words in every screenshot. Type a word into the search box and every moment that showed it lines up on the strip, captioned with the line it matched. Click a frame to open the full screenshot.
Step back through your day
Drag the slider under the strip to scroll back through today, frame by frame. Turn a whole day into a time-lapse video with one click.
You always know when it is on
While capture is on, a small pill sits in a corner of the screen saying Capturing screen. Click it to pause, and click again to resume. You can also pause from the notification area, or with a keyboard shortcut from any app. The pill and the app's own window never show up in the screenshots.
Keep out what you choose
Add a password manager, a banking site or any other app or window title to the skip list, and nothing is captured while it is in front. Nothing is captured while your PC is locked, either.
Light on disk
Screenshots are saved as JPEG by default, or PNG if you prefer. When the screen has not changed, the same picture is not saved twice. Sort screenshots into a folder per day, and have screenshots older than a set number of days deleted for you. Only screenshots this app saved are ever deleted.
Private to your PC
Your screenshots and their words stay in your folder. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to sign up for.
Upgrading?
Your folder and settings carry over, and the screenshots you already took become searchable too.
Features
- Takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds, quietly, into a folder you choose
- Pick how often: every 3, 5, 10 or 30 seconds, or every 1, 5 or 15 minutes
- Reads the words in every screenshot, so you can search for anything your screen has shown
- Search results line up as a film strip, each captioned with the line of text it matched
- Scrub back through today's screenshots with a slider, and click any frame to open it
- Start and pause with one big button, a click on the tray icon, or a shortcut from any app
- A small pill in a corner of the screen shows when capture is on. Click it to pause
- The app's own window and the pill never appear in the screenshots
- A skip list: name an app or a window title, and nothing is captured while it is in front
- Nothing is captured while the PC is locked
- An unchanged screen is not saved again, so a quiet stretch takes no extra space
- Save as JPEG, with the quality you choose, or as PNG
- Sort screenshots into a folder per day
- Delete screenshots older than a number of days you choose, from 1 to 90
- Turn a day of screenshots into a time-lapse video
- Capture the main display only, or all of your displays
- Everything stays on your PC. Nothing is uploaded
- Your folder and settings from the earlier version carry over, and the screenshots already in it become searchable
- Waits in the notification area and can start with Windows. Dark and light themes, or match Windows
Details
- Works on
- Windows 10 (1809 or later) and Windows 11
- Download
- About 3.4 MB
- Version
- 2.0.2, updated October 2026
- First released
- September 2023
- Price
- $2.99 once. No subscription.
- Category
- Utilities & tools
What's new in 2.0.2
- New: search for any word your screen has shown, and jump to the moment it was there
- New: a film strip of today's screenshots, with a slider to step back through the day
- New: a small pill in a corner of the screen while capture is on. Click it to pause
- New: a skip list for apps and windows you never want captured, and no capture while the PC is locked
- New: an unchanged screen is not saved again
- New: JPEG or PNG, a folder per day, and automatic clean-up of old screenshots
- New: turn a day into a time-lapse video
- New: pause and resume with a shortcut from any app
- Your folder and settings carry over, and your existing screenshots become searchable
Questions
Anything else? Ask us
Which versions of Windows does it run on?
Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11.
Is it a subscription?
No. Secret Screenshot is a one-time purchase of $2.99, and updates are included.
How do I get it?
EvlarSoft apps are moving to direct downloads from this site. Ask to be notified and we will email you as soon as Secret Screenshot is ready to download.
