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SnapShot

Screenshot & Annotate. Capture, mark up, and share in seconds.

Works on
Edge
Version
3.0.2
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Screenshotting a problem is easy. Getting it marked up and into a ticket is the annoying part: save the file, open an editor, find it again, attach it. Here the capture opens straight into an editor tab, and Copy puts the finished image on your clipboard.

SnapShot lets you capture your current tab and annotate it instantly — no sign-ups, no cloud uploads, no nonsense.

Click the extension icon, hit Capture, and your screenshot opens in a built-in editor. Mark it up with five annotation tools:

Pick from 7 colors, adjust stroke width, and undo/redo as needed (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z).

When you're done, export in one click:

Perfect for:

Privacy first:

Screenshot → Annotate → Share. Done in 3 seconds.

Screenshots

What it does

  • Pen

    freehand drawing for quick highlights or circles

  • Rectangle

    draw boxes to call out specific areas

  • Arrow

    point to exactly what matters

  • Text

    type labels, notes, or callouts directly on the image

  • Blur

    redact sensitive information (emails, passwords, personal data)

  • Copy to clipboard

    paste directly into Slack, Notion, email, or any app

  • Download PNG

    save a clean annotated image file

  • Bug reports

    capture the issue, circle it, paste into your ticket

  • Quick feedback

    annotate a design and send it to your team

  • Tutorials

    add arrows and text to explain a workflow

  • Privacy

    blur out sensitive info before sharing

  • All processing happens locally in your browser

  • Screenshots are stored temporarily in session storage and never leave your device

  • No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no data collection

  • Only two permissions: activeTab (to capture the current tab) and storage (to temporarily hold the screenshot)

When you'd reach for it

  • Bug reports someone can actually act on

    Catch the broken state on screen, hit Capture, and the editor opens in a new tab. Box the element, point an arrow at the error text, add a short label, then press Copy and paste it into your issue tracker or chat. Nothing touches your Downloads folder unless you press Download.

  • Redacting before you send anything

    Screenshots of dashboards and inboxes carry email addresses, tokens and customer names you did not mean to share. Drag the blur tool over those regions and the pixels are blurred, not covered with a shape you could move aside later. The blur is flattened into the PNG when you copy or download it.

  • Walking someone through a workflow

    Pick a color from the seven in the toolbar, choose a stroke width, and stack arrows and text on top of the same shot. The stroke width also sets the text size, so callouts stay readable next to thick arrows. Download saves it as snapshot-<timestamp>.png for a doc or onboarding page.

Permissions & privacy

Single purpose

SnapShot has a single purpose: capturing a screenshot of the current browser tab and providing an inline annotation editor. Users can mark up the screenshot with pen, rectangle, arrow, text, and blur tools, then copy the result to clipboard or download it as a PNG file. No data leaves the browser.

storageSnapShot uses chrome.storage.session to temporarily hold the captured screenshot data URL so it can be passed from the background service worker to the editor page. The data is automatically cleared when the browser session ends. No persistent data is stored and nothing is synced or sent externally.
tabsCan see the titles and addresses of your open tabs.

It runs only the code shipped inside the package — no remote code is fetched.

Questions people ask

How do I take a screenshot and annotate it in Chrome?

Click the toolbar icon and press Capture. The shot opens in a new editor tab with five tools: pen, rectangle, arrow, text and blur. When you are done, Copy puts a PNG on the clipboard and Download saves it as a file.

Does it capture the whole page or only what I can see?

Only the visible area of the current tab. It uses the browser's visible-tab capture, so anything below the fold is not in the image. For a long page, scroll to the part you need and capture that view.

Can I undo an annotation?

Yes, with Ctrl+Z, or Cmd+Z on a Mac, and Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo. The toolbar has undo and redo buttons for the same thing. Each shape stays a separate object in the editor until you export, so undo removes them one at a time.

What permissions does it use, and where does my screenshot go?

The manifest declares two permissions, storage and tabs, and no host permissions. The tabs permission is used to capture the visible tab and to open the editor page in a new tab; the captured image is written to chrome.storage.session, which the browser clears when the session ends. There is no content script, so it does not run inside the pages you browse.

What format is the export, and can I paste it directly into Slack or Notion?

The export is a PNG in both cases. Copy writes a PNG image to the clipboard, so you can paste it straight into a chat message, a document or an email. Download writes the same image to your downloads as snapshot-<timestamp>.png, with all drawings and blur already baked in.

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