What is the best screenshot extension for Chrome?

It depends on the job. For a quick full-page capture, Chrome's built-in DevTools command is free and needs no install. GoFullPage is the most popular extension. FireShot has the most editing features. Full Page Screenshot is the one that blacks out private details before the image is created.

Can Chrome take a full page screenshot without an extension?

Yes. Open DevTools with F12, press Ctrl+Shift+P, type 'full size' and choose Capture full size screenshot. It saves a PNG of the whole page.

Chrome screenshot extensions compared, honestly

We make one of these, so read this knowing that. What follows is what each tool does best, checked on the Chrome Web Store on 20 September 2026, and where ours is the wrong choice.

First: you may not need one

Chrome can capture a whole page by itself. Press F12, then Ctrl+Shift+P, type full size and pick Capture full size screenshot. Free, nothing installed. It struggles with lazy-loaded images, sticky headers and pages that scroll inside a panel. Step by step here.

The extensions

Extension	Users	Rating	Best at
GoFullPage	10,000,000	4.9 (84K)	One-click full-page capture. The default choice, and the one most people mean by "the screenshot extension".
Awesome Screenshot	4,000,000	4.7 (29.5K)	Screen recording and team sharing, with cloud storage.
FireShot	3,000,000	4.8 (52.2K)	Editing and PDF output. Paid: $39.95/year or $99.95 once, for two devices, per its site.
FullPage Capture	100,000	4.8 (968)	Free blur and PDF export, no account.
Full Page Screenshot (ours)	15	5.0 (1)	Blacking out private details before the image exists, and capturing a list of pages in one run.

Users and ratings read from each Chrome Web Store listing on 20 September 2026. Ours is new: one rating, from someone we know, which is why we say so here.

Pick by what you're doing

You want to…	Use
Grab a whole page, once, nothing fancy	Chrome DevTools, or GoFullPage
Record your screen or share to a team	Awesome Screenshot
Annotate heavily and export polished PDFs	FireShot
Share a page that contains customer data	Ours, or any tool plus careful manual editing
Capture 50 pages from a list	Ours (Pro), or a scripting tool like Playwright

The part we care about: what the tool can see

A screenshot extension reads the page you capture. That is unavoidable. What differs is what happens next:

Where the image goes. Cloud tools upload captures to their servers, which is how sharing links work. If your page has customer data on it, that upload is a decision, not a detail.
What else the extension does. Awesome Screenshot was accused in 2014 of collecting browsing data; it has changed hands and versions many times since, and we have not tested it ourselves.
Redaction order. Most tools capture first and let you paint over afterwards, so an uncensored file exists at least briefly. Ours paints the boxes in while the image is being built, so it never exists. How that works.

Where ours is the wrong choice

You want annotation tools, arrows and callouts: FireShot is better.
You want shareable links and team libraries: we deliberately have no cloud, so Awesome Screenshot fits better.
You want the safest, most-reviewed option: GoFullPage has 10 million users; we have 15.

Full Page Screenshot

Whole page, part of a page or a scrolling panel, as PNG, JPEG or PDF, free. It finds emails, phone numbers, card numbers and API keys and blacks them out before the file is written: 3 such captures a month free, unlimited with Pro. Everything runs on your computer, and it has no analytics, no ads and no account.

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More on this topic: GoFullPage alternatives: when to use something else (2026) · FireShot alternatives: free scrolling-panel capture, PDF and redaction · Awesome Screenshot alternatives: local, no account, no uploads · How to take a full page screenshot in Firefox (3 ways)