Why look for an Awesome Screenshot alternative?

Awesome Screenshot is built around screen recording and cloud sharing with an account. People who only need full-page screenshots saved to their own computer, with nothing uploaded, often want something smaller.

Is there a screenshot extension that doesn't upload anything?

Yes. Chrome's built-in DevTools capture and Full Page Screenshot both save files locally only. Full Page Screenshot has no account, no analytics and no cloud, and installs with no permission warning.

What is a good alternative for screen recording?

If you need recording, stay with a recording tool: Awesome Screenshot, Loom, or the recorder built into your operating system (Win+Alt+R with Xbox Game Bar on Windows, Cmd+Shift+5 on a Mac).

Awesome Screenshot alternatives

Awesome Screenshot has grown into a screen-recording and sharing platform, with cloud storage, share links and team workspaces. If you use those, it's a sensible choice. If you only wanted screenshots, and would rather they never left your computer, here are simpler options. We make one of them, so weigh this accordingly.

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Why people switch
Nothing installed
A local-only extension
If you need recording

Why people switch

Where captures go. Sharing links work by uploading your capture to the vendor's servers. For a page with customer data, that upload is a decision, not a detail.
Account and plan limits. Features are tied to an account and a plan. Check its pricing page for today's limits.
History. In 2014 Awesome Screenshot was reported to collect browsing data. It has changed owners and versions since, and we haven't tested current versions ourselves, but some teams' security policies still exclude it.

Nothing installed

Chrome captures a whole page by itself: F12, then Ctrl+Shift+P, type full size, choose Capture full size screenshot. PNG only, and it struggles with lazy-loaded images and sticky headers. Step by step. For the visible part of the screen, your operating system's own tool (Win+Shift+S, Cmd+Shift+4) is enough.

A local-only extension

Full Page Screenshot does screenshots and nothing else, on your computer only:

Whole page, a selected part, or an inner scrolling panel (Gmail, Slack, dashboards), as PNG, JPEG or PDF.
Finds emails, phone and card numbers and API keys, and blacks them out before the image exists.
No account, no cloud, no analytics, and it installs with no permission warning.

What it doesn't do: recording, annotation, share links. If you need those, a local-only tool isn't the right fit.

If you need recording

Stay with a recorder. Windows has one in Xbox Game Bar (Win+Alt+R), macOS in the screenshot toolbar (Cmd+Shift+5), and Loom and Awesome Screenshot both do it well if you want share links.

Full Page Screenshot (Chrome, free)

Full-page, region and scrolling-panel screenshots as PNG, JPEG or PDF, with private details blacked out before the file is written. Nothing is uploaded.

Get Full Page Screenshot

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