Choose Awesome Screenshot for screen recording with voice and webcam, captures of your desktop or other apps, and instant share links into Jira, Slack and similar tools. Choose Pulse Extractor when the page holds something you need to reuse: a table for Excel, text inside an image, or a document you need to edit.
Side by side
The Awesome Screenshot column restates what Awesome Screenshot publishes about itself; each statement links to its source. The Pulse column describes Pulse Extractor 0.5.8, the current Chrome Web Store release.
| Awesome Screenshot | Pulse Extractor | |
|---|---|---|
| Screen recording | Desktop, tab or camera, with microphone and webcam[1] | None. Pulse does not record video |
| Webpage capture | Full page, selected area or visible part; also the whole screen or an app window[2] | Capture Full Page saves the whole page as one high-resolution PNG or a multi-page PDF (Live in 0.5.8). Webpages in Chrome only |
| Editing | Shapes, arrows, text, highlight, blur, crop, resize[3] | Smart Snip Studio: crop, straighten, rotate, resize, annotate, highlight, blur, pixelate, redact and watermark, with the original kept (Live in 0.5.8) |
| Saving and sharing | PNG, JPG, PDF, an online account with share links, Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana, GitHub[4] | Files you download or copy: PNG, PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CSV, JSON, TXT. No hosted share links or integrations |
| Tables, text from images, Word | Not described in its listing[5] | Extract Page turns tables, card grids and listings on the page into a real Excel workbook, CSV or JSON. Smart Snip reads text and tables inside images, on your own computer, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, with Arabic and Traditional Chinese in Beta; it also opens PNG, JPEG, WebP and PDF files from your computer. Editable Word and PowerPoint replicas with real tables, from a snip or a whole result |
| Account and price | Not verified: its pricing page showed no price to our check; see its own site | A free Pulse account is required. Free plan, no card (20 Full-Page Captures, 20 Smart Snips and 20 Page Extractions a month); Starter $12 a month or $120 a year, Pro $29, Intelligence $59. Lite $6.99 a month or $69 a year |
What Awesome Screenshot says it does
People who capture and record their screen to explain something: bug reports, demos, tutorials and quick shared links.
- Combines a screen recorder (desktop, tab or camera, with microphone and webcam) and a screenshot tool in one extension.[1]
- Captures a full page, a selected area or the visible part of a webpage, and also the entire screen or an app window.[2]
- Annotates screenshots with shapes, arrows, text, highlight and blur, and crops or resizes them.[3]
- Saves screenshots as PNG, JPG or PDF, or to an online account with a shareable link, and sends them to Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana or GitHub.[4]
- Listed on the Chrome Web Store at version 4.4.44, updated 11 September 2026, with about 4 million users.[6]
- Does not describe table extraction, text recognition (OCR) or Word and PowerPoint export.[5]
Choose Awesome Screenshot when
- You need screen recording with voice and webcam as well as screenshots
- You want to capture the desktop or another app window, not only a webpage
- You want a shareable link or to send captures straight to Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana or GitHub
Choose Pulse Extractor when
- You need what is on the page as Excel, CSV or JSON rather than a picture of it
- You need the text in an image read, or an editable Word or PowerPoint version of a region
- You want blur that can also remove the hidden words from text exports
See what Pulse produced on real public pages, with the original files, in the Proof Lab.
Using both
If you explain things to people with recordings and annotated screenshots, Awesome Screenshot is built around that. If you pull information out of pages, Pulse is. Plenty of people need both jobs done, and the tools do not get in each other's way.
How this comparison was made
We read Awesome Screenshot's own public pages and store listing on and restated only what they say, in our own words, with a link to each source. We did not test Awesome Screenshot, so its column reports its claims, not our measurements. Products change: check the sources before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.
Awesome Screenshot is a trademark of its owner. Pulse Extractor is a separate product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Awesome Screenshot.
Questions
Can Pulse record my screen?
No. Pulse captures and extracts webpages in Chrome; it does not record video. For recordings, Awesome Screenshot lists desktop, tab and camera recording.
Can Pulse capture my desktop or another app?
No. Pulse works on webpages in Chrome. Awesome Screenshot lists whole-screen and app-window capture.
Does Pulse blur sensitive information?
Yes. Smart Snip Studio blurs, pixelates and redacts, and an opt-in setting also removes the words underneath from text, Word and Excel exports.
Sources
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked