Far from the old ways of scrawled annotations and typewritten collection data, herbaria and collectors now almost exclusively create specimen data and annotation labels with the aid of spreadsheets or computerized databases.  Despite this, many collectors and collections lack a straightforward tool to generate herbarium labels, especially those at the start of their botany journey or working outside botanical institutions. Creating and formatting herbarium labels from scratch can present a daunting challenge to such collectors or impose unnecessary time costs on them or on herbarium teams that receive unlabeled specimens. In the herbarium, of course, costs of illegible or under-informative labels are borne by collection staff and users repeatedly, over time! Here we present downloadable utilities based on the free Microsoft Access Runtime that empower users to create quality collection data labels and annotation labels for botanical specimens. Herbarium label generator: Informative, complete labels make specimens much more valuable. For donating specimens to a herbarium or building a collection at home, this tool guides users in capturing collection data and publishing formatted labels that can be forwarded to herbarium staff, or printed, trimmed  and added to specimens.   Annotation label generator: This utility helps botanists and herbarium staff to create any quantity of clearly legible annotations to confirm or update identifications, or to document taxonomic changes. References and synonyms can be captured, along with the standard identification, identifier, affiliation, and date. These free utilities are available in both English and French from the Canadian Museum of Nature at https://nature.ca/en/our-science/collections/botany-collections/