The 17 Best Chrome Screenshot Extensions
Here are some of the best Chrome screenshot extensions:
Try a desktop screenshot app – Movavi Screen Recorder.
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Want to capture your screen easily and take scrolling screenshots? As an alternative to a screenshot Chrome extension, try Movavi Screen Recorder – a fully-featured desktop tool for everyone who wants to create screenshots, annotate them, and then share them with friends and colleagues.
Take a screenshot of your entire screen, window, or a portion of the screen. Use arrows, shapes, and text in the Editor mode. Share the result by simply copying to clipboard or download on your computer.
Best for: taking screenshots in one click
Google Web Store rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
One of the best screen capture extensions for Chrome is Movavi ScreenShot. This tool can grab your screen at multiple sizes: Chrome full page screenshots, specific parts of the screen, or full screen, including all open tabs. Browser frames are excluded from the image.
It’s so easy to use that even new users will quickly understand how to take a screenshot. You will appreciate the simplicity and the high quality of the images.
The default format for screenshots is JPG. You should save the screencap to your desktop, then you can convert it to any format and share it with your colleagues or friends.
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Best for: taking a full-page screenshot
Google Web Store rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Users: 5,000,000+
GoFullPage is one of the simplest extensions for making a full-page screencap. You can click on the icon or use the shortcut Alt+Shift+P. The image will appear in a new tab, where you can download it. The app offers several formats for downloading, including PNG, JPEG, and PDF.
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Best for: sharing screenshots and screen recordings with colleagues
Google Web Store rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Users: 2,000,000+
Awesome Screenshot is a multifunctional plugin that takes screenshots and records your screen activity. It offers a wide range of features, listed below.
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Best for: making screencasts
Google Web Store rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Users: 2,000,000+
Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder is the perfect tool for creating screencasts. Besides standard recording and screenshotting functions, it has many features that any blogger will appreciate! For instance, you can add your own watermark to a screenshot or video to brand it. Let’s see what the extension offers more.
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Best for: capturing all tabs in one click
Google Web Store rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Users: 3,000,000+
Though FireShot doesn’t have a particularly modern interface design, it does have everything you need to make a simple screen capture.
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Best for: team work
Google Web Store rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Bubbles is a Chrome Store screen capture tool that is a great option if you’re working on a team project. You can generate a private link to your screenshots so that only your team members can see the images and recordings.
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Best for: online collaboration
Google Web Store rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
The next on our list of the best Chrome screenshot extensions is Snippyly. This tool is perfect for real-time collaboration. Why? It supports not only sharing screencaps but also generating edit-access links. You make a screenshot – your colleagues add comments to it. Easy and interactive project discussion is here!
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Best for: taking screenshots on YouTube
Google Web Store rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
If you want to take screenshots of YouTube videos in one click, check this app out. It’s one of the simplest and fastest tools you can find on the internet.
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Best for: screenshotting and sharing tweets
Google Web Store rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
This addon is specifically for making Twitter screenshots. You can grab any tweet and share it via social networks.
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Best for: taking screenshots of particular HTML elements
Google Web Store rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Are you a developer or designer? Then this extension is for you. It supports grabbing screencaps of HTML elements, so you don’t need to cut them out of a full-page screenshot.
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Best for: making emoji-driven screenshots
Google Web Store rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Droplr takes screenshots and makes screen video recordings like many extensions. But it has one feature that sets it apart from the others – emojis! Yes, you can add emotions to your screenshots and make them funnier.
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Best for: saving a screenshot with the page name, date, and time
Google Web Store rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
Blipshot makes full-page screenshots. It works quickly and saves files with the page name, date, and time.
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Best for: adding a drop shadow to screenshots
Google Web Store rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Standardized Screenshot is a simple tool for screenshotting current tabs. Additionally, you can add a drop shadow to your screencaps or even a macOS-style title bar.
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Best for: enhancing note-taking on online presentations and courses
Google web store rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
While Askify is a capable tool for screen capture in Chrome, its real value lies in its ability to save multiple screenshots in a single document. Essentially, Askify is more of a note-taking assistant than a pure screenshot tool. Askify is best suited for users looking for a quick and easy tool to help them grab more detailed notes on the fly when watching online presentations, training sessions, and academic classes.
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15. NinjaCapture
Best for: easy sharing for collaborative projects
Google web store rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
NinjaCapture is a screenshot plugin for Chrome with an emphasis on sharing and collaboration. It includes tools that allow users to quickly annotate screenshots and add helpful notes where necessary. Sharing screenshots is a quick and easy process with NinjaCapture, making it a good option for teams that use screenshots to communicate and collaborate on projects and presentations.
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16. Usersnap
Best for: UI and UX design, development, and testing
Google web store rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Usersnap is a Chrome extension that allows users to give feedback and report bugs on websites in Chrome. Usersnap is great for UX and UI testing teams to capture specific instances of areas for improvement, UX details that work really well, and glitches that need to be fixed ASAP. It’s a highly useful tool for design and development teams, and works well for external user experience testing, as well.
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17. Loom
Best for: quick collaboration for businesses and internal teams
Google web store rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Loom is a video communication program designed to help businesses improve collaboration. It has screenshot capabilities, with note-taking functionality. It also includes features that allow users to create and share videos, and teams can then give feedback directly in those videos. While Loom works as a screenshot app, it’s primarily designed to help teams reduce the need for meetings and calls while improving communication efficiency.
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How to use Movavi’s screen capture extension for Chrome
Here, we’ll show you how to take a screenshot with Movavi ScreenShot step by step.
Step 1. Install the extension
Follow the link below and click Add to Chrome.
Then, pin the screenshot icon in the top right corner of your browser.
Step 2. Select the capture area
Open the website that you want to screenshot. Click on the extension icon and select the appropriate option. You can choose to capture a certain area of the web page, its visible part, or the whole page.
Step 3. Save the screenshot
A new tab with the screenshot will open. To download the image to your computer, click Save JPG and indicate the folder where you want to save the file.
How to take Chrome screenshots with Movavi Screen Recorder
Step 2. Select the screenshot tool to capture a still image
At the bottom right corner of the window, you’ll see the recording toolbar. Here, you’ll find several icons to help you choose your recording or screen capture parameters. Click on the Camera icon to select Movavi Screen Recorder’s screenshot mode.
Step 3. Set your screenshot parameters to capture a browser window
When you select the screenshot functionality, your cursor will change shape to become a crosshair. You can now take one of several types of screenshots (full screen, partial screen, or window). To capture a Chrome browser window, hover over the window you want to screenshot. When a frame appears, click to capture the window. Alternatively, if you only want to capture part of the browser screen, you can click and drag your mouse across the area of your screen that you want to capture. For a full-screen screenshot, you can just click on any empty area of your desktop.
Step 4. Edit your screenshot (optional)
After you take a screenshot of your Chrome window, a frame will appear around your screenshot. Once this frame appears, you’ll be able to make edits to your screenshot in Movavi. You can enhance the image by changing its size and/or shape, and by adjusting its colors. If you’re giving feedback on a project, you can add arrows and annotations to easily communicate with your team. If you’re taking notes or you want to call out a specific area for an online presentation, you can highlight text or images in the screenshot, among other enhancements. When you’re done editing, all that’s left is to save your image.
Step 5. Copy, save, or share your Chrome screenshot
Finally, you just need to choose how you want to save or share your screenshot. You can click the Copy button to copy the image and paste it into a document, presentation, or spreadsheet. You can click Save to choose your image file format and then export and save your image to your computer. Or, you can click Share to share your image online via Google Drive or another platform.
Which Chrome extension to choose?
There are plenty of screenshot extensions, and it might be hard to choose one among this variety. Here’s what we recommend to consider when choosing a screenshotting tool.
Features: While all screenshot extensions have the same basic function of capturing the screen, they have different additional features. Pay attention to the capture options – not all extensions can capture the whole page or a select part of the screen. You also might need drawing tools to add some notes on your screenshot.
Ease of use: Some extensions require just one click to take a screenshot. So if one tool is not that easy to use, you can always choose an extension with a simpler interface.
Reviews: Check out user reviews before using a tool. This way, you’ll learn about the advantages of the program and potential problems.
Summary
Choosing the right Chrome print screen extension for you is easy if you’re certain about what functionality you need. For a fully-featured desktop program, try Movavi Screen Recorder. This app allows you to take screenshots (scrolling ones included), annotate them, and share them in a blink of an eye.
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