diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 02a23f2..e2e703b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ Every non-headless session shows a small panel bottom-left of the browser view:
   * a pause/play button (`||`/`▶`) — also bound to the spacebar;
   * a realtime-speed selector (Max/1x/0.5x/0.25x) — `1x` matches `env.launch(realtime=True)`, `Max` matches the default (`realtime=False`, uncapped). `env.launch(realtime=0.5)` (a specific float, not just `True`/`False`) sets an initial speed directly.
 
+Pressing `s` anywhere in the browser tab (outside a text input) saves a screenshot of the current view, named `swift-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.png` — the same mechanism as `env.screenshot()`, just without a Python round-trip.
+
 ## Recording video
 
 Any scene can be recorded straight from Python — call `env.start_recording(...)` around the part you want captured, `env.stop_recording()` when done. The `.webm` file downloads automatically once encoding finishes:
diff --git a/docs/source/intro.rst b/docs/source/intro.rst
index ac2eb7d..5f7cefc 100644
--- a/docs/source/intro.rst
+++ b/docs/source/intro.rst
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ view:
   (``realtime=False``, uncapped). ``env.launch(realtime=0.5)`` (a specific
   float, not just ``True``/``False``) sets an initial speed directly.
 
+Pressing ``s`` anywhere in the browser tab (outside a text input) saves a
+screenshot of the current view, named ``swift-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.png`` --
+the same mechanism as :meth:`~swift.Swift.Swift.screenshot`, just without a
+Python round-trip.
+
 See `Swift's own README
 <https://github.com/jhavl/swift#readme>`_ for a full set of worked
 examples of increasing complexity -- moving shapes with sliders, robots
diff --git a/src/swift/public/js/main.js b/src/swift/public/js/main.js
index 4ebea15..00005df 100644
--- a/src/swift/public/js/main.js
+++ b/src/swift/public/js/main.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Slider, Button, Label, Select, Checkbox, Radio } from "./ui.js";
 import { WebSocketTransport, portFromLocation, SWIFT_JS_VERSION } from "./comms.js";
 import { Recorder } from "./recording.js";
 import { FPS, SimTime } from "./hud.js";
+import { saveScreenshot, timestampedScreenshotName } from "./screenshot.js";
 
 const { scene, camera, renderer, controls, axesHelper, ground, groundMaterial, lights } = createScene();
 
@@ -27,24 +28,24 @@ const UI_CLASSES = { slider: Slider, button: Button, label: Label, select: Selec
 // connects (see Swift.py's launch(browser_timeout=)). null means never.
 let autoCloseDelay = null;
 
-function saveScreenshot(fileName) {
-  const link = document.createElement("a");
-  link.download = `${fileName}.png`;
-  link.href = renderer.domElement.toDataURL("image/png");
-  link.click();
-}
-
 // launch()'s _add_controls() always adds Pause/Realtime/Render as the
 // first three elements, right after connecting and before any user code
 // runs -- so id 0 is reliably the pause button. Space just simulates a
 // click on it, reusing the exact same click -> "changed" -> shape_poses
 // response path a mouse click would take.
 window.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
-  if (e.code !== "Space" || e.target.tagName === "INPUT") return;
-  const pauseButton = uiElements.find((el) => el.id === 0);
-  if (pauseButton?.button) {
-    e.preventDefault();
-    pauseButton.button.click();
+  if (e.target.tagName === "INPUT") return;
+
+  if (e.code === "Space") {
+    const pauseButton = uiElements.find((el) => el.id === 0);
+    if (pauseButton?.button) {
+      e.preventDefault();
+      pauseButton.button.click();
+    }
+  } else if (e.code === "KeyS" && !e.ctrlKey && !e.metaKey && !e.altKey) {
+    // Bare 's' -- Ctrl/Cmd+S is left alone so it still triggers the
+    // browser's own "Save Page As", rather than fighting it.
+    saveScreenshot(renderer.domElement, timestampedScreenshotName());
   }
 });
 
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ transport.onMessage((func, data) => {
       break;
     }
     case "screenshot": {
-      saveScreenshot(data[0]);
+      saveScreenshot(renderer.domElement, data[0]);
       transport.send(0);
       break;
     }
diff --git a/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.js b/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a8c03d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/** Screenshot saving: canvas -> PNG download, plus the auto-generated
+ * filename used by the 's' hotkey (env.screenshot()'s own file_name
+ * argument covers the explicit-name case). */
+
+// Colons aren't valid in Windows filenames, so the timestamp uses dashes
+// throughout rather than the `HH:MM:SS` grouping a clock display would use.
+export function timestampedScreenshotName() {
+  const pad = (n) => String(n).padStart(2, "0");
+  const now = new Date();
+  const date = `${now.getFullYear()}-${pad(now.getMonth() + 1)}-${pad(now.getDate())}`;
+  const time = `${pad(now.getHours())}-${pad(now.getMinutes())}-${pad(now.getSeconds())}`;
+  return `swift-${date}_${time}`;
+}
+
+export function saveScreenshot(canvas, fileName) {
+  const link = document.createElement("a");
+  link.download = `${fileName}.png`;
+  link.href = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
+  link.click();
+}
diff --git a/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.test.js b/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d611bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/swift/public/js/screenshot.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+
+import { saveScreenshot, timestampedScreenshotName } from "./screenshot.js";
+
+test("timestampedScreenshotName matches swift-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS, no colons", (t) => {
+  const name = timestampedScreenshotName();
+  assert.match(name, /^swift-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}_\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/);
+});
+
+test("saveScreenshot encodes the canvas as a PNG and clicks a download link", (t) => {
+  const originalDocument = globalThis.document;
+  let created;
+  globalThis.document = {
+    createElement: () => {
+      created = { clicked: false, click() { this.clicked = true; } };
+      return created;
+    },
+  };
+  t.after(() => {
+    globalThis.document = originalDocument;
+  });
+
+  const canvas = { toDataURL: (type) => `data:${type};base64,stub` };
+  saveScreenshot(canvas, "swift-2026-08-22_10-00-00");
+
+  assert.equal(created.download, "swift-2026-08-22_10-00-00.png");
+  assert.equal(created.href, "data:image/png;base64,stub");
+  assert.equal(created.clicked, true);
+});