Choose FireShot for capture-heavy work: PDFs with working links, capturing all your tabs or a list of URLs, many destinations, or a lifetime licence. Choose Pulse Extractor when the next step is working with the content: rows in Excel, text read out of an image, an editable Word or PowerPoint file, or research on the organization behind the page.
Side by side
The FireShot column restates what FireShot publishes about itself; each statement links to its source. The Pulse column describes Pulse Extractor 0.5.8, the current Chrome Web Store release.
| FireShot | Pulse Extractor | |
|---|---|---|
| Page capture | Entire page, visible area or a selection; PDF, PNG, JPEG[1] | Capture Full Page saves the whole page as one high-resolution PNG or a multi-page PDF (Live in 0.5.8) |
| Batch capture | All open tabs, or a list of URLs, automatically[2] | One page at a time, when you click. Pulse does not batch-capture tabs or URL lists |
| Scrolling areas inside a page | Paid upgrade captures specific elements, such as scrolling areas[3] | Scrollception captures one scrolling panel inside a page, such as a chat, a feed or a long table, as PNG, PDF, Word or Excel (Live in 0.5.8) |
| Editing and PDFs | Paid upgrade: PDF with links and text, editor (crop, annotate, blur)[3] | Smart Snip Studio: crop, straighten, rotate, resize, annotate, highlight, blur, pixelate, redact and watermark, with the original kept (Live in 0.5.8) |
| Tables to Excel, text from images, Word | Not described in its listing[4] | 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 |
| Price | FireShot Pro: $39.95 a year, or $99.95 one-time lifetime[5] | 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 FireShot says it does
People who capture pages often and want many destinations (PDF with links, images, email, print, OneNote) and batch capture.
- Captures the entire page, the visible part or a selection, and saves PDF, PNG or JPEG in the free version.[1]
- Can capture all open tabs, or a supplied list of URLs, in an automatic batch.[2]
- Its paid upgrade adds PDFs with links and text, capture of specific elements such as scrolling areas, an editor (crop, annotate, blur) and more destinations.[3]
- FireShot Pro is sold at $39.95 a year or $99.95 as a one-time lifetime licence.[5]
- Says captures are made and stored locally and can work offline.[6]
- Does not describe table extraction to spreadsheets, text recognition (OCR) or Word and PowerPoint export.[4]
Choose FireShot when
- You need PDFs with working links and searchable text, or many output destinations
- You need to capture all open tabs, or a list of URLs, in one batch
- You want a one-time lifetime licence rather than a subscription
Choose Pulse Extractor when
- You need what is on the page as structured rows and columns in Excel, CSV or JSON
- You need the text inside images read, or an editable Word or PowerPoint replica of a region
- You want to research the organization behind a page, not only keep a picture of it
See what Pulse produced on real public pages, with the original files, in the Proof Lab.
Using both
If you capture dozens of pages in a batch or need link-preserving PDFs, FireShot is built for that. Pulse fits beside it for the pages whose content you need as data or as an editable document.
How this comparison was made
We read FireShot'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 FireShot, 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.
FireShot is a trademark of its owner. Pulse Extractor is a separate product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to FireShot.
Questions
Does Pulse capture a list of URLs or all open tabs?
No. Pulse works on the page you are viewing, when you click. For batch capture of tabs or URL lists, FireShot lists that feature.
Do Pulse PDFs keep links?
Capture Full Page keeps the page as it looks, as a paginated PDF or a PNG. If you need searchable text and live links in the PDF, Chrome's own Save as PDF keeps text as text, and FireShot lists link-preserving PDFs in its paid version.
Is Pulse Extractor related to FireShot?
No. They are separate products from separate companies.
Sources
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: getfireshot.com/buy.php, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked