Feature
Chrome screenshot extension
Capture full pages, visible areas or selected regions in Chrome and export PNG, JPG or PDF files locally for free. Paid plans add a cloud editor and share links for synced captures. Review the result before exporting or sharing it.
Step 01
What Captorify captures in Chrome
Captorify captures a full page, the visible area or a selected region in Chrome. Review and export the result locally for free. General annotation is available in the paid cloud editor after syncing the capture.
- Full-page (scrolling), visible-area, and region capture.
- Review the capture in the extension result page before exporting it.
- Local capture and export are free; sync and sharing are optional paid extras.
The whole capture-and-export workflow runs locally in your browser and is free, with no account required. Signing in adds optional paid features like cloud sync and secure sharing, but plain capturing and exporting never requires them.
Step 02
Install and first capture
Install Captorify from the Chrome Web Store, then pin it so the toolbar button is one click away. You can start capturing right away because everything needed to take and export a screenshot is already in the extension.
Use Alt+Shift+P for a full-page capture, Alt+Shift+V for the visible area, or Alt+Shift+R for a selected region. The result opens for local preview and export; editing in the paid cloud editor requires a synced capture.
- 1 Choose a mode
After installing from the Chrome Web Store, open the toolbar button and choose Full page, Visible area or Region.
- 2 Review the capture
Wait for the result page, then inspect the first and last content, delayed images and any capture warning.
- 3 Export PNG, JPG or PDF
Review the result and export a PNG, JPG or PDF locally. Open a synced capture in the paid cloud editor when you need annotations.
Step 03
Edit before sharing
For general markup, open a synced capture in the paid cloud editor. Draw a box or ellipse, point with an arrow, sketch freehand, add text, highlight a section and crop. The input to this editor has already been uploaded.
- Box, ellipse, arrow, freehand, text, highlight, and crop.
- Opaque blackout replaces covered pixels in the export; review the saved file.
- Beautify adds a background, padding, rounded corners, and a shadow.
The paid cloud editor also offers manual and suggested redaction, plus beautified exports. For pre-upload removal, save a local capture and use the free public redactor, then inspect its flattened PNG. The public beautifier provides basic framing for existing images. Before taking a capture that must remain local, turn off "Sync captures to cloud" in the extension settings, or use your browser’s native screenshot tool. Saving locally does not prevent automatic sync when it is enabled.
Step 04
Export or share
Save a raw capture as PNG, JPG or PDF from the extension result page for free, with no account required. Turn off Sync captures to cloud before capturing anything that must remain local. This local export is separate from editing an already-synced capture in the paid cloud editor. Local PDF export paginates long captures across A4 pages.
- Free local export to PNG, JPG, or PDF, no account needed.
- Auto-paginated A4 PDFs with orientation chosen from the image.
- Pro share links with optional password, expiry, view counts, and manual revoke.
Step 05
Privacy and permissions
Captorify asks for the narrowest set of permissions required to capture the tab you are on, and the free capture-and-export path stays entirely on your device with no network calls back to Captorify. A screenshot you take and export locally is never uploaded, unless sync is enabled.
- Free capture and export make no network calls to Captorify.
- Paid cloud captures are encrypted at rest with AES-256.
- Deleted captures have a 30-day grace period before they are purged.
If you turn on paid sync, captures are stored in the cloud encrypted at rest with AES-256, and deleted captures sit in a 30-day grace period before they are purged for good. The permissions page breaks down each request and exactly what it is used for.
Step 06
Chrome limits
Full-page capture scrolls and stitches a page into one or more output parts. Capture is bounded to 100 tiles and 16 parts, with each part capped at 32,000 device pixels high. A very tall page can be incomplete, so review warnings and check the last source row.
- Up to 100 tiles and 16 output parts, each at most 32,000 device pixels high.
- Very long pages are split or truncated, and you get a warning when that happens.
If a page runs past those limits, Captorify splits or truncates the capture and shows a warning so you know it happened rather than handing you a silently cut-off image. For pages that long, capturing in sections or grabbing the specific region you need usually works better.
Step 07
Related workflows
Each capability here has a deeper page if you want the detail. The full-page screenshot feature covers how stitching handles sticky headers and lazy-loaded content, the editor page walks through every annotation tool, and the redaction page explains how permanent blackout works.
Step 08
Choose native capture, the extension or a free image tool
Chrome’s built-in full-size screenshot is useful for a one-off PNG. Captorify provides full-page, visible-area and region capture with local PNG, JPG or PDF export.
If you already have the image, the public tools provide annotation, combining, manual redaction, English OCR, PDF conversion and a simple frame.
