Full-page screenshot extensions compared
There are dozens of screenshot extensions. These are the three you are most likely to be weighing up — GoFullPage, FireShot and Awesome Screenshot — next to OpenCapture, which we make. There is no single best full-page screenshot extension — the right one depends on what you need around the capture itself: screen recording, a cloud library, Firefox support, code you can read, or the widest set of features that cost nothing.
The short version
All four capture a whole scrolling page, export a PNG, and let you draw on the result. Those rows are identical for everyone, so they are left out. What follows is only the part that actually decides it.
| Compared | OpenCapture | GoFullPage | FireShot | Awesome Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the money is | ||||
| Free tier covers | Everything but watermarking | Capture and export onlyediting needs Premium | Capture and export onlyediting needs a Pro licence | 100 capturesbasic annotation |
| Blur private details | Free | Paid | Paid | Free |
| Watermarking | Paid | No | Paid | Beta |
| What it costs | ||||
| Billing | One-time | Subscription | Annual or one-time | Subscription |
| Price | $51,000 credits, one-time | From $1/monthbilled annually | $39.95/yearor $99.95 once | From $6/monthBasic plan |
| Reach and trust | ||||
| Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | YesAGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT, up to 2018private branch since | No | No |
Which one to pick
Awesome Screenshot — if you need more than screenshots
It is the only one of the four that records screen and webcam, keeps a cloud library, and hands you a share link. If a capture usually ends up in a message to a colleague, that whole path is built in, and none of the other three have an answer for it. It also reaches Safari, which no one else here does.
The costs are a 100-capture ceiling on the free plan, a subscription from $6 a month to lift it, and the fact that anything in the cloud library is on their server rather than yours. Full comparison.
GoFullPage — if you are on Chrome and it already works
Released continuously since 2012, with a very large install base and an interface a lot of people already have in their fingers. Capturing a page and exporting it straight away is free, and there is a seven-day trial of the paid tier, which none of the others offer.
Two things narrow it: there is no Firefox build at all, and the editor is a subscription — you can crop, annotate or blur, but exporting the edited result needs Premium. If you only use Chrome and only ever want the raw capture, switching away from it buys you very little. OpenCapture as a free GoFullPage alternative.
FireShot — if you capture in bulk or drive it from code
The widest feature set of the four: multipage PDFs, capturing every open tab at once, uploads to FTP and HTTP servers, and an API you can call from your own code. It runs on more browsers than anyone else here, Opera and Safari included, and it has the longest track record of handling awkward pages.
It also draws its line earliest. Capture and PDF export are free; the editor, unlimited undo, capture history and the batch tools all sit behind the licence, which is $39.95 a year or $99.95 once. OpenCapture as a FireShot Pro alternative.
OpenCapture — if you want it auditable and paid for once
The core extension is AGPL-3.0-or-later on GitHub, so “nothing is uploaded” is a claim you can check in the source rather than one you have to take on trust. That matters most when the pages you capture are internal dashboards, client admin panels or medical portals, and someone is going to ask what the extension does with them.
It ships the same build to Chrome, Edge and Firefox, and the only thing that costs money is tiling a watermark across an export — $5 for 1,000 credits, once, no renewal. Blurring, unlimited undo, full-page PDF export and unlimited captures are all free.
What OpenCapture is, in one paragraph
A full-page screenshot extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Capture the whole scrolling page, crop it, annotate it, blur anything private, export a PNG or PDF. All of it runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded and no account is required. The core extension is open source under AGPL-3.0-or-later, so the privacy claim is something you can check rather than something you have to believe. One feature costs money: tiling a watermark across an export, as a one-time unlock with no subscription.
It is deliberately lightweight, and it is meant to be enough: capture the page, mark it up, hide anything private, save it. That covers what most people need on most days, and it is the whole of what OpenCapture tries to do. If you want an all-in-one capture suite, one of the others will serve you better, and the pages above say so.
The detailed comparisons
- OpenCapture vs GoFullPage — the closest like-for-like; comes down to Firefox and readable source
- OpenCapture vs FireShot — where a paid licence draws its line, feature by feature
- OpenCapture vs Awesome Screenshot — a capture-only tool against a capture, record and share suite
How we write these
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