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ScreenshotSweeper 🎯

A smart, lightweight Windows app that automatically cleans up your screenshots.

ScreenshotSweeper keeps your screenshots folder clutter-free by automatically deleting temporary screenshots after a set time, while letting you permanently keep the important ones. It runs quietly in the background and gives you full control through toast notifications, presets, and a clean modern UI.

Platform Version Framework License

📥 Download

Get the latest release from: 👉 Releases

Available:

  • ScreenshotSweeper-Setup.exe (Windows Installer)
  • Portable version (ZIP)

🚀 Quick Start

  1. Download and install ScreenshotSweeper
  2. Launch the app
  3. Select your Screenshots folder
  4. Choose a delete time (or use presets)
  5. Click Save Settings
  6. Done. ScreenshotSweeper runs in the background.

✨ Features

  • 🔔 Windows Toast Notifications With quick-action buttons:

    • 15 Min
    • 30 Min
    • 1 Hour
    • Keep

  • ⏱️ Flexible Deletion Timers Set time in Minutes, Hours, or Days

  • 🎯 One-Click Presets No typing, no configuration overhead

  • 📂 Keep Folder Important screenshots are safe forever

  • 🔧 System Tray Mode Runs silently in the background

  • 💾 Real-Time Monitoring Powered by FileSystemWatcher

  • ⚙️ Custom Settings

    • Startup behavior
    • Notification control
    • Pause / Resume monitoring
    • File type filters

  • 🎨 Clean Modern UI

    • Setup
    • Monitor
    • Settings
    • Guide

📸 Screenshots

Monitor Tab

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Settings Tab

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🧭 How It Works

  1. You take a screenshot
  2. ScreenshotSweeper detects it instantly
  3. A toast notification appears
  4. Choose a preset or Keep
  5. Timer starts
  6. File auto-deletes when time expires
  7. Kept files stay in the Keep folder

Simple. Fast. Zero manual cleanup.

🗂 Tabs Overview

🛠 Setup

  • Choose screenshots folder
  • Set deletion time
  • Save configuration

📊 Monitor

  • See all tracked screenshots
  • Live countdown timers
  • Keep / Delete Now buttons
  • Color-coded urgency

⚙ Settings

  • Enable/disable notifications
  • Launch on startup
  • Pause/resume monitoring
  • Select file extensions

📘 Guide

  • Help
  • FAQ
  • Design philosophy

⚙ Configuration Location

%APPDATA%\ScreenshotSweeper\config.json

🧪 Tested On

  • Windows 10 (21H2+)
  • Windows 11

🛠 Built With

Component Tech
Language C#
Framework .NET 6 (LTS)
UI WPF
Notifications Windows Community Toolkit
File Monitoring FileSystemWatcher

🗺 Roadmap

  • File monitoring
  • Auto deletion
  • Presets
  • Toast actions
  • Tray icon

Upcoming:

  • Installer improvements
  • UI polish
  • Dark/Light themes
  • Custom preset editor
  • Analytics dashboard

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

You can help by:

  • Improving UI
  • Writing unit tests
  • Creating installer scripts
  • Adding new features

Open an issue or submit a pull request.

🎯 Why ScreenshotSweeper?

<<<<<<< HEAD Because screenshots are temporary by nature. Your storage should treat them that way.

======= MIT License © 2026 Darshan K

🙏 Credits

  • Design inspired by Mark App (Android)
  • UI: ModernWPF
  • Notifications: Windows Community Toolkit

🎯 Why ScreenshotSweeper?

Because screenshots are temporary by nature. Your storage should treat them that way.

00904d4 (chore(release): update installer README and rebuild script) Take freely. Keep only what matters. Delete the rest automatically.