Capture tool

Screenshot

Capture a browser tab, window, or screen with your permission, review the frame, and download it as a PNG.

Start a capture

Select Start capture, then choose the tab, window, or screen you want in your browser’s permission prompt. Nothing is captured silently.

Ready when you are.

Captured frame

Your captured frame will appear here.

Browser requirement: screen capture needs a supported browser and a secure HTTPS or localhost address. The browser may ask which tab, window, or screen to share. Stop the capture before you close the tab; protected content and other applications may not be available to the browser.

How to capture a screenshot

1. Grant permission

Choose the source you want to share in the browser prompt. You can stop sharing at any time.

2. Capture a frame

Arrange the view you need, then select Capture frame to create a PNG preview.

3. Download and review

Download the PNG and check it for sensitive information before sharing or publishing it.

Choosing what to share

When you select Start capture, the browser puts up its own prompt listing what you could share: a tab, a window, a whole screen, or a selected area you drag out. Nothing is captured before you choose, and the choice is yours to make — this page cannot see anything on its own.

Where the selected-area option appears. Chrome and Edge let you drag a rectangle over part of the screen. Firefox and Safari do not offer that choice, and their prompts list a tab, a window, or a screen only. On those two browsers, a tab or window share is the closest you can get to a region.

Prefer sharing a single tab over a whole screen whenever you can. A screen share sweeps in everything behind the window: your messages, your mail, anything you switch to, and whatever appears in a notification. A tab share confines the capture to the page you actually want.

Taking the frame

  1. Arrange the view first — scroll to the part you need, close anything you would rather not photograph, and open the menu you want to show. Capture takes exactly what the picker gave it at that moment, whether that was one tab or a dragged area, so set the scene before you press the button.
  2. Select Capture frame. The image appears in the preview on this page.
  3. Read the preview before you download it. This is the moment to notice a notification, a tab title, a bookmark, an address bar, or a name in the margin.
  4. Select Download PNG to save it to your device.

Why some screenshots come out blank

Browsers deliberately block capture of protected content. Streaming video, some DRM-protected media, and parts of banking and password pages are rendered as a black or empty frame. This is a protection against exactly the kind of capture this tool performs, and no web page can lift it. If the frame is blank, the content is protected; take a different approach rather than looking for a way around it.

Practical notes

  • Stop the capture before you close this tab. Closing the page ends the browser’s permission and the capture with it.
  • You can stop sharing at any time, either with Stop capture here or with the browser’s own sharing control.
  • A screenshot captures a single frame, so it is the wrong tool for a whole article. Printing to PDF captures a full page instead.
  • If you want the text out of an image rather than the image itself, use the Image to Text (OCR) tool, which is built for that.

Before you share a capture

Look at the whole frame, including the edges. Check for anything you would not want in a public post: a tab title, a URL with an identifier in it, a bookmark, a name, a date, or a second person’s face. You are the only one who can judge that, which is why the preview comes before the download button.

Capturing a screen that looks right later

A screenshot is a copy of pixels, so it inherits whatever state the screen was in. Capturing before a page has settled gives you loading spinners and half-drawn text, so if the result looks wrong the first thing to check is whether it was simply taken too early.

Capture the region you need rather than the whole screen, when the destination allows it. A full-screen capture of a high-resolution display scaled down into a document loses small text, whereas a tight region keeps it legible at the same display size.

Be aware of what else is on screen. Notifications, toolbars, and the contents of other windows are captured exactly as they appear, and removing them afterwards is harder than dismissing them before you start.

Where the screenshot will be read matters. Text that is comfortable on a monitor at full size can become unreadable when pasted into a narrow document column, so check the size it will be displayed at rather than only the size you captured it at.

Further reading: Read the full guide: Screenshot

Common questions

Does it record my screen as video?

No. It captures single still frames as PNG, not video, and it does not capture audio at all. You start the capture, take frames when you want them, and stop. Each capture is a separate image you can review before downloading.

Why does it ask to share my screen?

Because that is how a browser takes a screenshot. Your browser shows its own screen-share prompt and you choose what to share — a single window, one tab, or the whole screen. Nothing is captured until you approve that prompt, and the choice is yours at that moment.

Is my screen uploaded?

No. Each frame is drawn to a canvas in this tab and saved from there. No image is sent to a server and none is stored.

Can I capture something if the start button does nothing?

Check two things. The browser must support screen capture, and you must accept the share prompt — if you dismissed it, the browser keeps refusing until you allow it. A private or incognito window also restricts screen capture in some browsers.

Can I capture an image I already have instead of taking a new one?

Not on this page. Unlike the QR scanner, there is no file-upload option here, so it only works from a live screen share. If you already have the image, you do not need this tool.