08Free screenshot capture & editor for Chrome
Capture any page, then annotate and beautify it.
SnapGlade captures the visible area, a full scrolling page, a region, or an element — then lets you annotate, redact, and beautify with backgrounds, padding, and device frames, and export to PNG, PDF, or SVG. Free, no account, on your device — with optional backup to your own Google Drive.
No account, no sign-up — captures stay on your device, with optional backup to your own Google Drive.
(01)Features
A full capture studio, in a popup.
Capture exactly what you need
Grab the visible area, a full scrolling page, a dragged region, or a picked element — from the toolbar, the right-click menu, or a hotkey. Add a timed delay, a responsive width, retina 2x/3x, or batch-capture several tabs.
A layer-based annotation editor
Arrows, shapes, freehand pen and highlighter, text, numbered steps, callouts, sticky notes, emoji, a spotlight, and a magnifier — all non-destructive, with multi-select, snapping guides, and full undo/redo.
Make it look designed
Drop the shot on a solid, gradient, mesh, or image background with padding, rounded corners, and a shadow. Add rotation, a pseudo-3D tilt, and device frames (browser, iPhone, Pixel, MacBook).
Redact with confidence
Blur, pixelate, solid-bar, or patch any region. Redactions re-render from the original and are baked in only at export, so they can’t be peeled back — and on-device detection finds faces (and sensitive text where supported) for you.
Record the tab, too
Need motion instead of a still? Record the current tab to a WebM video or an animated GIF, right from the same toolbar.
On-device, with your own Drive
Projects and captures live locally in your browser (IndexedDB). Connect Google Drive and they back up to a hidden, app-private folder in your own Drive. We run no servers and collect no analytics.
(02)How it works
From capture to a polished image in three steps.
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Capture the page
Click the SnapGlade icon, use the right-click menu, or press a hotkey (Alt+Shift+V / F / R / E), then choose how to grab it — visible area, full page, a region, or an element.
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Annotate and beautify
The capture opens in the editor. Add arrows, text, and numbered steps, blur anything sensitive, then sit it on a background with padding, a shadow, and a device frame.
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Export or back it up
Export to PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG, or PDF at 1x–3x, or copy straight to the clipboard. Everything stays on your device — connect Google Drive if you want your projects backed up.
(03)Privacy
Your captures stay on your device by default.
- Captures and projects are stored locally in your browser (IndexedDB) and processed entirely on your device.
- No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, and no developer servers — nothing is sent to us.
- Optional Google Drive backup is off by default; turn it on and projects go to a hidden, app-private folder in your own Drive — never to us.
- On-device redaction: face (and, where supported, sensitive-text) detection runs locally, so no image leaves your machine to find what to blur.
(04)FAQ
Questions, answered.
Does SnapGlade upload my screenshots?
No, not by default. Capturing, editing, and exporting all happen on your device, stored locally in your browser. The only time anything leaves is if you explicitly connect Google Drive backup — and then it goes to a private folder in your own Drive, never to us.
What can I capture?
The visible area, a full scrolling page, a dragged region, or a single element you pick. You can also add a timed delay, capture at a responsive width, output at 2x/3x, batch-capture several tabs, and record the tab to WebM video or an animated GIF.
What formats can I export?
PNG, JPG, and WebP; SVG with your annotations kept as vectors; and single-page PDF — at 1x, 2x, or 3x, with social and docs size presets, or copied straight to the clipboard.
How does redaction work?
Blur, pixelate, solid-bar, or patch any region. The redaction re-renders from the original image and is only baked in at export, so it can’t be peeled back. SnapGlade can also auto-detect faces (and sensitive text where your browser supports it) on-device to help you find what to hide.
Do I need a Google account?
No. SnapGlade works fully without one. Google Drive backup is an optional feature you connect on the options page; everything else works with no account and no sign-in.
Is there a watermark?
New captures include a small SnapGlade watermark in the corner by default. You can turn it off in the Effects panel any time.
Which browsers are supported?
Chrome and other Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc) on Manifest V3. A Firefox build is in the works.
Ready to capture something great?
SnapGlade is a free, on-device Chrome extension.
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