A free, open source GoFullPage alternative

Last verified: August 15, 2026

screencappy is a free, open source, Apache-2.0 licensed Chrome extension for full page screenshots. GoFullPage is a proprietary extension in the same category, with a free tier and a paid Premium upgrade that covers its annotation features. The practical difference is that screencappy has no paid tier at all, so annotation, redaction and PDF export are included, and it processes every capture on your own device with no account, no upload and no network code.

If you want a full page screenshot tool whose source you can read, that costs nothing, and that cannot send your captures anywhere, screencappy is the direct answer. If you want a long established product with a large existing user base behind it, GoFullPage is the incumbent.

What does GoFullPage do well?

It is fast, it is simple, and it handles hard pages. Reviewers repeatedly describe capturing very long pages to PDF without fuss, and many have used it daily for years.

Its scroll capture is genuinely good, including on pages with inner scrollable regions. If one click capture is all you need, the free tier covers it and always has.

How the two compare

What does GoFullPage cost?

The capture itself is free and unlimited. The editor is not.

GoFullPage Premium costs $12 USD per year, described on the site as "$1 a month", auto renewing, with a seven day free trial. An Enterprise tier exists with no published price.

Which GoFullPage features are behind the paywall?

Cropping, annotation (blur, text, highlight), URL and timestamp stamping, and smart PDF page splitting. GoFullPage's own comparison table marks all of these as Premium only.

Its FAQ is explicit that if you crop, edit, or annotate a screenshot, you need a premium trial to download the edited version. In screencappy the annotation tools are simply part of the extension.

Is GoFullPage open source?

Not any more. It was, and its own FAQ says so plainly.

The project was maintained as an open source repository for years, and in 2018 the developer moved to a private fork for further development. The shipping product today is proprietary, and the Terms of Use prohibit reverse engineering. screencappy's full source is public under Apache-2.0.

Does GoFullPage upload my screenshots?

No, and this is a point in its favour. Its FAQ states that captures are held in browser storage on your own computer and are not on any server.

One caveat worth knowing: GoFullPage's privacy policy is dated March 2019 and does not mention screenshots or capture data at all, so that assurance lives in an FAQ rather than in the policy document.

What does screencappy include that is usually a paid upgrade?

Annotation, redaction and PDF export. screencappy ships a full editor at no cost: crop, arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, freehand pen, highlighter, text, emoji stamps, and blur or pixelate redaction, all on a single row of tools with the colour choices in a small popover. Nothing you draw is burnt into the picture, so you can reopen a capture and change an arrow you drew earlier, and undo and redo cover every step.

Export covers PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF and the clipboard. PDFs can be a single tall page or paginated to A4 or Letter, and the PDF writer is hand-rolled with zero dependencies. With the Turbo engine switched on, screencappy can also save a PDF with real, selectable, searchable text rather than an image of the page.

No trial, no upgrade prompts, no watermarks. There is nothing in screencappy to upgrade to.

Does screencappy upload my screenshots anywhere?

No. screencappy contains no network code at all. Captures are composed, annotated and exported entirely in your browser, and recent captures are stored locally in your browser's IndexedDB on your own machine. There is no account, no cloud service, no analytics and no telemetry. You can confirm this yourself, because the source is public and Apache-2.0 licensed.

What permissions does screencappy request?

activeTab, scripting, storage, downloads, contextMenus, unlimitedStorage and debugger. It asks for no access to any website, which means it cannot see any web page until the moment you ask it to take a screenshot, and then only the tab you are looking at, only at that moment.

The debugger permission is declared at install, because Chrome does not allow that one to be requested later. It powers the Turbo capture engine, searchable PDF export and mobile width capture. It is only active while one of those captures is running, and Chrome shows a visible banner the whole time it is in use.

Which pages does screencappy handle that a simple stitcher does not?

• Menus and banners that follow you as you scroll. They are pinned or hidden after the first shot, so a floating nav bar appears exactly once instead of repeating down the image. The same handling reaches into a page's own self contained components.
• Web apps where only the middle of the window scrolls. When the window itself barely moves, as in Gmail-style apps, screencappy finds the inner panel holding the real content and captures all of it.
• Iframes, in depth. Point at an iframe with Pick one thing and you get its entire content, not just the part showing inside its box.
• Feeds that load more as you scroll. Turn on auto-load and screencappy keeps scrolling until the page stops growing, within a height and time budget, then captures the loaded page.
• Very long pages. The picture is built and kept in strips rather than as one enormous image, which sidesteps the size limit browsers put on a single image. Captures too large for one file split into numbered files or extra PDF pages instead of failing.
• Pages that cannot be captured in full. When a page reports a height no tool could handle, screencappy says why and lets you choose what to do, instead of quietly giving you half a picture.
• Mobile layouts. Capture a page in its phone layout without resizing your actual window.
• Timing-sensitive shots. A delayed capture gives you a few seconds to open a menu or hold a hover state before the shot is taken.

Which one should you use?

If you only ever take a screenshot and download it, GoFullPage's free tier is a solid choice and you will not miss anything.

If you annotate, crop, or blur before sharing, that is where the two diverge: GoFullPage charges for it and screencappy does not. And if you want to read the code that touches your pages, only one of them lets you.

Where do I install GoFullPage right now?

Check GoFullPage's own site. As of the date above, their homepage carries notices dated 11 and 14 August 2026 describing a temporary Chrome Web Store availability issue and pointing people to a separately installable BETA extension, which is live and was last updated on 14 August 2026.

screencappy is an unrelated, independently written project and has nothing to do with any of that. It is mentioned here only because people comparing the two during that period reasonably want to know where to find the other one. This is a live situation, so the vendor's own site is the authority on it, not this page, which was last verified on the date above.

How do I install screencappy?

screencappy is on its way to the Chrome Web Store. It is not there yet, so for now you add it yourself, which takes about a minute. Download screencappy.zip and unzip it, open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and choose the folder you unzipped. The same file works in Edge, Opera and Brave, and the home page shows pictures of these three steps.

Keyboard shortcuts

Full page: Alt+Shift+P. Visible area: Alt+Shift+V. Select an area: Alt+Shift+S. While you drag out an area you can keep scrolling, to grab something taller than your screen. Pick one thing has no shortcut by default, and every shortcut can be changed at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

GoFullPage is a trademark of its respective owner. screencappy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to GoFullPage in any way.