SmartShot: Screenshot Capture users statistics

Capture full pages, smart elements, or custom areas instantly.

Take beautiful, high-resolution screenshots in Chrome — full page, scrolling, smart element, or area — with keyboard shortcuts.

No login. No watermark. No cloud. Everything happens locally in your browser.

SmartShot is a fast, privacy-first screenshot extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium browsers. Capture what you need in one click, style it with padding, rounded corners, and custom backgrounds, and save it straight to your Downloads folder as PNG, JPEG, or WebP.

Built on Chrome's modern Manifest V3 platform and available in 30 languages.

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📜 Full Page (Scrolling) — Alt + F Scroll and stitch entire webpages — long articles, dashboards, landing pages, technical documentation. Handles lazy-loaded images, fixed headers, sticky sidebars, and cookie banners automatically so you get one clean image without duplicated bars across every tile.

A progress toast shows tile 3/12 as it captures, and Esc cancels any time. Very tall pages that exceed Chrome's 32,767-pixel canvas limit are split into multiple files automatically — you never lose the bottom half of a long article again.

✨ Smart Element — Alt + S Hover any element on the page — an image, a table, a card, a code block, a section — and SmartShot detects its true boundaries and highlights the exact area. Click to capture it with pixel-perfect edges. No manual cropping, no zooming in, no fiddling with rectangles.

Optional "Full Element" mode scrolls inside long elements (like a chat thread or a comment section) and captures the whole thing.

✂️ Area / Crop — Alt + A Drag to select any rectangle on the page for a precise, cropped screenshot. Perfect for grabbing a specific chart, a code snippet, or a UI detail.

⚡ Batch Mode Toggle Batch in the popup, then choose Smart Select or Area. The capture tool stays armed after every shot — snap 5, 20, 50 elements in a row without reopening anything. Press Esc to stop.

Ideal for documenting a whole UI, grabbing every step of a tutorial, or building a reference sheet.

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✅ Padding from 0–128 px — from flush edges to breathable frames

✅ Border radius from 0–64 px — sharp corners to smooth pill shapes

✅ Background fill — transparent, white, black, or any custom HEX color to match your brand or presentation deck

✅ Format — PNG, JPEG, or WebP, with an adjustable quality slider (10–100%) for JPEG/WebP compression

✅ Output at physical device resolution — no blurry downscales on Retina and 4K displays

Everything renders on your machine using the browser's native canvas — no server round-trip, no perceptible delay.

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Choose how files are grouped:

✅ Smart filename, no folders (default) Downloads/example.com_2026-07-19_14-30-12.png

✅ Folder per website — automatic per-site organization Downloads/SmartShot/example.com/2026-07-19_14-30-12.png

✅ Folder per date — daily work logs and research journals Downloads/SmartShot/2026-07-19/example.com_14-30-12.png

✅ Project folder — name your project once, group everything Downloads/SmartShot/ClientRedesign/example.com_...png

Also: turn on "Copy to clipboard" in the popup and every capture also lands on your clipboard, ready to paste into Slack, Notion, Figma, Jira, Linear, an email — anywhere that accepts an image.

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No accounts. No sign-in. No cloud storage. No analytics. No tracking. No telemetry. No third-party requests. It works completely offline.

SmartShot uses only the minimum Chrome permissions required:

✅ activeTab — capture the tab you're currently on

✅ storage — remember your settings

✅ downloads — save screenshots to your Downloads folder

✅ clipboardWrite — copy captures to your clipboard (opt-in)

✅ contextMenus — right-click capture entries

No "debugger" permission. No host access to arbitrary URLs beyond what your active tab needs. No background network activity.

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✅ Developers & QA testers — screenshot bugs with clean visual context. Batch a whole UI in seconds. Attach directly to Jira, Linear, or GitHub issues without any post-processing.

✅ Marketers & growth teams — grab competitor ads, landing pages, and social posts. Wrap them in on-brand backgrounds for reports and decks.

✅ Content creators & writers — capture references, UI examples, and social assets with transparent or custom-colored backgrounds, ready to publish without touching Photoshop.

✅ Product managers — document flows, capture user journey screens for PRDs, batch every step of an onboarding sequence.

✅ Students & researchers — save lecture slides, papers, diagrams, and citations locally — no cloud service in the loop with your notes.…