GoFullPage is the most popular full-page screenshot extension for a reason: one click, a clean capture, no fuss. We make a competing extension, so weigh this accordingly. If GoFullPage already does what you need, keep it. Here is when something else is a better fit.
The free version captures the whole page and lets you download it as PNG, JPEG or PDF, with no limit on the number of captures. Premium, which GoFullPage lists at $1 a month with a 7-day trial, adds editing: crop, text, shapes and emoji, a date and URL stamp, and smarter PDF page breaks. It has about 10 million users and a 4.9 rating on the Chrome Web Store.
So the reasons to switch aren't about price. They're about pages GoFullPage isn't built for.
If you need a full-page capture once a month, you don't need an extension. Press F12, then Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac), type full size, and pick Capture full size screenshot. It struggles with lazy-loaded images and repeats sticky headers, but it's free and built in. Step by step here.
Support tickets, bug reports, dashboards: pages full of customer emails, card numbers and API keys. With any capture-then-edit tool, the unredacted image exists first, and it's one wrong drag-and-drop from being shared. Full Page Screenshot finds those details and blacks them out while the image is being built, so an uncensored copy never exists. How that works.
In Gmail, Slack, Notion, Jira and most admin dashboards, the page itself doesn't scroll; a panel inside it does. Whole-page tools capture the frame and one screenful of the panel. Full Page Screenshot lets you pick the scrolling panel and captures all of it.
If you annotate every capture with arrows, callouts and blur, FireShot has the deepest editor of the popular options. Its paid version is $39.95 a year or $99.95 once, per its site.
| GoFullPage | Full Page Screenshot | DevTools | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole page to PNG / PDF | Free | Free | PNG only |
| Crop and annotate | Premium | No | No |
| Black out emails, cards, keys before capture | No | 3 a month free, unlimited in Pro | No |
| Capture an inner scrolling panel | No | Free | No |
| Capture a list of pages in one run | No | Pro | No |
| Paid plan | $1/month | $3/month, $19/year or $39 once | Free |
| Users | ~10 million | New (about 20) | Built in |
GoFullPage details from its website and Chrome Web Store listing, checked 28 September 2026. If anything here is out of date, email us and we'll fix it.
Whole page, part of a page or a scrolling panel, as PNG, JPEG or PDF. Blacks out private details before the file is written. Everything runs on your computer: no account, no analytics, nothing uploaded.
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