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Captorify browser permissions
Which permissions are optional or required, and how local free behavior differs from paid cloud behavior.
Least-privilege by design
Captorify requests only the browser permissions a screenshot workflow actually uses, and nothing more. The aim is to keep the extension able to capture, edit, and export without reaching into your browsing beyond the page you choose to capture.
Each permission below maps to a concrete capability.
Capturing the page
To capture a screenshot, the extension reads the contents of the tab you are on. It uses the active-tab and scripting permissions to scroll the page, capture each tile, and compose the result.
Active-tab access is granted by your action, such as clicking the toolbar button or using a capture shortcut, and it applies to the current tab at that moment rather than to your browsing in general.
- Active-tab access is triggered by your capture action.
- Scripting drives the scroll-and-stitch capture in the page.
- It applies to the tab you choose to capture.
Saving and storing locally
The downloads permission lets you save an exported PNG, JPG, or PDF to your computer. The storage permission keeps your settings and local captures in the browser so the workflow stays in your hands.
On the free tier this all stays local, with no upload to Captorify.
- Downloads saves your exported files.
- Storage holds settings and local captures in the browser.
Extension housekeeping
A few permissions support the extension itself rather than your data. Tab access lets the extension target the right tab for a capture, alarms schedule routine background tasks, and the side-panel permission powers the History and Settings panel in browsers that support it.
None of these send your browsing anywhere; they keep the capture workflow working inside the browser.
Connecting a paid account
When you connect a Pro or Team account, the extension talks to captorify.com to link the account, and it uploads synced captures directly to Captorify cloud storage. Host access to the storage endpoint exists for that upload.
This network activity happens only on paid sync and sharing. The free tier makes no network calls to captorify.com at all.
- captorify.com access links a paid account.
- Cloud-storage host access exists for paid capture uploads.
- No network activity on the free tier.
Free versus paid behavior
On the free tier, captures are processed locally and do not leave your device, and a CI test on our public source keeps every captorify.com reference confined to the paid modules so the free path cannot call our servers. The permissions are used only to capture, edit, and save on your machine.
On Pro and Team, the same permissions also support uploading captures you choose to sync or share, which is the only point where data reaches Captorify.
Reviewing and revoking access
You can review the exact permissions Captorify holds on the extension's details page in your browser, and you can remove the extension at any time to revoke them all.
Removing the extension clears its local data along with its access, so nothing is left behind on your machine.