screencappy

Save a picture of a whole web page in one click. Draw on it, hide anything private, and keep it wherever you like. Free, and nothing you capture ever leaves your computer.

Download the extension for Chrome

This installs the screencappy extension in your browser. It is coming to the Chrome Web Store; until then, early access takes about a minute to set up.

How the early access install works

Download the file above and unzip it.
Open chrome://extensions and switch on Developer mode.
Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.

The download page also carries a separate power build with a few extra capture tricks.

Works with Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave and Firefox.

What is screencappy?

screencappy is a free browser extension that saves a picture of an entire web page in one click. It captures the whole page, not just the part you can see on screen. You can then draw on the picture, blur out anything private, and save it as a PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF.

Everything happens on your own computer. There is no account to make and no cloud service behind it. screencappy does not track you and has no way to send your pictures anywhere. It asks for no access to any website, so it cannot see any web page until the moment you ask it to take a screenshot, and your screenshots stay on your computer and are never sent anywhere. It does use Chrome's debugging tool for a few advanced captures, and Chrome shows a banner on screen the whole time that is running.

screencappy is completely free, with nothing held back: drawing, blurring, emoji stamps and saving as PDF are all included, and they are the features screenshot tools usually charge for. No trial, no upgrade prompts, no watermarks. It works with Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave, and there is a Firefox version too. The code is open for anyone to read, under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Adding it to your browser

screencappy is on its way to the Chrome Web Store. It is not there yet, so for now you add it yourself. This is early access: it takes about a minute, and these three steps are all of it.

Download and unzip

Download screencappy.zip and unzip it. You will be left with a folder. Remember where you put it.
Switch on Developer mode

In Chrome, go to chrome://extensions. Turn on the Developer mode switch in the top right corner.
Click Load unpacked

Click the Load unpacked button and choose the folder you unzipped. That is it, screencappy is in your browser.

The same file works in Edge, Opera and Brave. On Firefox, download screencappy-firefox.zip instead. Once screencappy reaches the Chrome Web Store, installing will be one click and updates will arrive on their own.

The whole page, one click

Not just the part on your screen. Everything you would have to scroll to see, joined into one tall picture, with menus and banners that normally follow you appearing just once.

Your pictures stay yours

No account, no cloud, no tracking. screencappy cannot see any web page until the moment you ask it to take a screenshot, and your screenshots stay on your computer.

Mark it up, free

Crop it, add arrows, boxes, a highlighter, text or emoji, and blur out names, faces or anything private. Changed your mind? Undo works for everything, at every step.

Save it your way

PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF, one long page or split into printable pages, or copied straight to your clipboard. Files can be named automatically with the site and date, and you can skip the editor and save straight to your downloads.

Capture just one part

Select an area by dragging a box around it, even one taller than your screen. Or pick one thing: point at a photo, a table or a post and click to capture exactly that.

Tricky pages handled

Feeds that load more as you scroll, apps where only the middle of the window scrolls, and shots that need a menu held open. screencappy waits for photos to finish loading, so there are no empty grey boxes.

See it as a phone would

Capture a page in its phone layout without resizing your window, and save PDFs whose text you can still search. Chrome shows a banner on screen while these run.

Very long pages work

Enormous pages defeat most screenshot tools. screencappy builds these in pieces, so a huge capture splits neatly across files. And when a page truly cannot be captured in full, it tells you why rather than quietly handing you half a picture.

Full page Alt+Shift+P · Visible area Alt+Shift+V · Select an area Alt+Shift+S