Your Desktop.
Organized in a flash.
Cortility is your productivity hub for Windows. Organize apps, files and workflows in the Dashboard and use built-in voice input, OCR text recognition and QuickShare – all in one app.
Everything your desktop needs
One tool instead of many. Cortility combines the most important productivity features in one lightweight app.
Dashboard
Organize apps, files and folders in freely configurable groups and launch entire workflows with a single click.
Learn more →Voice Input
Dictate text into any application. Local processing with Whisper — your voice never leaves your computer.
Learn more →QuickShare
Share texts, files and images between your devices on the local network. No cloud account needed, everything stays in your Wi-Fi.
Learn more →OCR Text Recognition
Select a screen area and Cortility recognizes the text instantly. 14 languages, even from images and PDFs.
Learn more →Translator
Translates locally on your machine — confidential texts included. No upload, no account, no website.
Learn more →Dashboard — your desktop, your rules
Organize your apps, files and folders in freely configurable tile groups. And use tiles that do more than launch: translator, connection checks, timers and QR codes.
Launch Entire Work Environments
Complete work environments: launch multiple programs at once. Your morning setup (email, browser, Teams) in a single tile.
Everything Perfectly Organized
Group tiles into named categories. Drag & drop them into the right order. Empty groups clean themselves up.
Design Your Dashboard
Over 13,000 Material Design icons with live preview. Color, size and background of each tile individually customizable — from extra-small to extra-large.
Add Apps and Files in a Snap
Right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer → “Pin to Cortility”. Done. Also supports drag & drop directly onto the tile surface.
Always at Your Fingertips
Alt+Q opens Cortility instantly at your mouse position — no matter which app you're in. A real advantage with multi-monitor setups: no mouse journey to the Start menu. Built-in search finds your tiles in seconds.
Terminals for Developers
Launch PowerShell, Bash, Git Bash or Python with predefined arguments and working directory. Your terminal, your workflow.
Your Recent Files
An optional panel shows your recently opened files — sorted by recency, always at hand.
Flexible Layout
Extra-small, small, large, extra-large — each tile adapts to your layout. Mix sizes freely within a group.
In your language
The entire interface in 14 languages — German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek and Russian. Switch without restarting.
Translation without the cloud
A tile translates your text right on your machine — no online service, no data in transit. From Free with your interface language and English, from Pro with 19 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian — how well a given language comes out varies; the major European languages are the safest bet. Cortility downloads a language model once for this (~5 GB).
See what is reachable
Keep servers and web addresses in view: RDP, TCP, HTTP/HTTPS or ping. The tile shows more than red or green — it names the cause: refused, unknown host, timeout, certificate. One click opens the remote desktop session or the page.
Time at a glance
Countdown with its own chime, Pomodoro for focused work intervals, time tracking for project hours — right on the dashboard, without a second program.
QR code in a tile
Enter text or a link and the QR code appears — the quickest way to get something onto your phone.
Time tracking is your timesheet: it records how long you worked on what. The Pomodoro is a timer: you set it to 25 minutes — anywhere from 5 to 120 — and work on one thing for that long. The two belong together, because a Pomodoro is working time. That is why only one clock ever runs, never two side by side.
In practice:
- You start a Pomodoro while time tracking is idle. The timer starts it for you. After 25 minutes it rings, tracking ends, the time is booked. You never have to remember to stop.
- Time tracking is already running and you want 25 focused minutes. Just set the timer alongside it. It rings after 25 minutes — and that is it. Tracking carries on undisturbed, and your working time stays one continuous entry instead of many pieces.
And if a Pomodoro does not belong to a project — tidying up, reading, learning — click the project line once more to reach “no project”. The timer runs as usual, but the time lands on no client project.
By the way: if you want a timer with no timesheet at all, use the countdown tile. That one never records anything.
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Voice Input — reimagined
Dictate text into any application. Local processing — your voice never leaves your computer. And that's just the beginning.
Flexible Hotkey
Three modes: Toggle, Hold (push-to-talk) or Auto (detects short tap vs. long press). Works system-wide in any application.
Two Engines, One Choice
Whisper (OpenAI) and Parakeet V3 (NVIDIA) as local engines. Both completely offline. GPU acceleration via DirectML, CUDA or Vulkan.
Text Appears as You Speak
Streaming mode: text is inserted live while you speak. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) recognizes pauses automatically.
Your Vocabulary
Personal Dictionary: proper names, technical terms and company names recognized correctly through context hints and automatic alias correction.
Automatic Text Formatting
Regex post-processing: custom rules transform text automatically. Standard rules for DE/EN/ES pre-installed.
Nothing gets lost
The transcription history archives every dictation locally on your PC: read it back, copy it, insert it again — or re-transcribe it with the current model. Off by default.
Speaks Your Language
Automatic language detection or manual selection from 31 languages.
Always in the Picture
Subtle overlay shows live status: recording, transcription, duration and engine. Never steals focus.
Hear the Difference
Audio feedback confirms start and stop of recording.
Will it run on your machine?
Three clicks in the Self-Check — and you'll know which engine, which model and which acceleration path fits your machine.
HTTP or HTTPS — which should you pick?
HTTPS unlocks one-click image copying but adds a one-time browser warning per device. When the trade-off is worth it — and how to dismiss the warning.
OCR Text Recognition — faster than typing
Select a screen area and Cortility recognizes the text instantly — faster than typing, more accurate than guessing.
Screen Becomes Text
Draw a frame over any screen content — text from screenshots, presentations, images or PDFs goes straight to your clipboard.
Multi-Monitor Screenshots
Capture any area across all screens — even spanning multiple monitors. Something the Windows Snipping Tool can't do. Works for screenshots and OCR recognition alike.
14 languages
Tesseract 5 with LSTM recognition. Eight languages are included, six more — Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek and Russian — are one click away. Several active at once, even with mixed texts.
Smart Image Processing
Six configurable stages prepare the image before recognition: scaling, grayscale, noise reduction, contrast enhancement, sharpening and black-and-white conversion.
Tiny Text? No Problem
Automatic upscaling (up to 3×) makes even the smallest text in screenshots readable — before recognition starts.
Custom Contrast
Adjust contrast strength and binarization threshold until even difficult templates are recognized perfectly.
Straight to Clipboard
Recognized text goes straight to your clipboard — Ctrl+V and keep working. No saving, no exporting.
Screenshot Editor
Every image screenshot opens in the built-in editor: pen, highlighter, eraser, arrow, rectangle, text and color picker, plus free cropping with eight handles and undo/redo — then save, copy or share straight via QuickShare.
Toast notification
After each screenshot a Windows notification shows the result with a preview and action buttons (Edit, Copy, Save as). No workflow break.
Global hotkeys
Ctrl+Alt+S for image screenshots, Ctrl+Alt+T for OCR — from any app. Fully customisable in settings, or turn them off entirely.
Translate without handing the text over
A translation model that runs on your PC. No outside service sees your contracts, client names or diagnoses.
Local and offline
The model sits on your machine. After the one-time download the translator needs no connection at all.
Languages
Free between your system language and English. From Pro, 19 languages with automatic detection of the source language.
Translates as you type
The text is translated while you enter it — or only on click, if you prefer.
Choose the register
Formal or informal address, automatic or fixed — wherever the target language makes the distinction.
Free choice of model
From Pro you pick the translation model yourself, with GPU acceleration on a dedicated graphics card.
History
The translator can remember earlier translations. Off by default, and stored locally only.
Find your edition
Pay once, use forever. No subscriptions, no hidden fees.
For getting started
Free, forever
- ✓ Dashboard (max 5 tiles)
- ✓ Multistart tiles
- ✓ Console tiles (PowerShell, Bash, Git Bash)
- ✓ System-wide hotkey (Alt+Q)
- ✓ Explorer integration
- ✓ Recently used files
- ✓ Dark Mode
- ✓ QuickShare text (1 device)
- ✓ Voice Input basic (Whisper base, system language, 30 s per recording)
- ✓ Widget tiles (countdown, Pomodoro, time tracking, connections, QR code)
- ✓ Translator, local & offline (2 languages)
For everyday productivity
One-time — no recurring cost
- ✓ Everything in Free+, plus:
- ✓ Unlimited tiles
- ✓ OCR text recognition (14 languages, 6-stage image processing)
- ✓ QuickShare full (images, files, PIN, clipboard sync, history)
- ✓ Voice Input advanced (all Whisper languages, unlimited duration, overlay)
- ✓ Personal Dictionary (proper names, technical terms, alias correction)
- ✓ Regex post-processing (automatic text formatting)
- ✓ Translator with 19 languages, free model choice & GPU acceleration (dedicated graphics card required)
For everyone who dictates daily
One-time — no recurring cost
- ✓ Everything in Pro, plus:
- ✓ Two engines (Whisper + Parakeet V3) with GPU acceleration
- ✓ Push-to-talk, auto mode & streaming (live text while speaking)
- ✓ Auto language detection + Parakeet in 25 languages
- ✓ Smart Modes with a local LLM (Llama 3.2, Mistral 7B or a compact CPU model without a graphics card — offline)
- ✓ QuickShare extras: larger files (200 MB), longer history & access by computer name
For teams and companies
One-time — no recurring cost
- ✓ Everything in Business, plus:
- ✓ 3 workstations included — one code for the whole team, more seats via support
- ✓ All future major versions included
- ✓ Prioritized handling of support requests
Free with email registration (Free+): 10 tiles instead of 5 and QuickShare text with multiple devices.
Already Pro? Upgrade to Business for just €20. Already Business? Upgrade to Team for €50.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Business | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tile limit | Max 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Multistart & console tiles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Widget tiles (countdown, Pomodoro, time tracking, connections, QR code) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translator (local, offline) | 2 languages | 19 languages | 19 languages | 19 languages |
| Translator: model choice & GPU (dedicated) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translator: keep model in memory | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Explorer integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recently used files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QuickShare text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QuickShare with multiple devices | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QuickShare full (images, files, PIN, sync, history) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QuickShare Business (larger files, longer history, computer name) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| OCR text recognition | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Voice Input basic (30 s, system language) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Voice Input advanced (all models, unlimited) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personal Dictionary | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regex post-processing | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| STT languages | 1 (system) | All Whisper languages | Auto + Parakeet 25 | Auto + Parakeet 25 |
| Two engines + GPU | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push-to-talk, auto mode & streaming | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart Modes (local LLM) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prioritized support handling | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Workstations per license | — | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Updates included | Always current (no license needed) | Purchased major version | Purchased major version | All future major versions |
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