For the simplest, most widely used full-page capture, GoFullPage. For batch capture of tabs or URL lists and link-preserving PDFs, FireShot. For screen recording plus screenshots and share links, Awesome Screenshot. For whole-site ZIP exports with browser frames, FullPage Screenshot. When the page holds data or text you need to reuse, Pulse Extractor.
At a glance
| Tool | Best for |
|---|---|
| GoFullPage | One-click full-page capture to PNG, JPEG or PDF |
| FireShot | Batch capture and link-preserving PDFs |
| Awesome Screenshot | Recording plus screenshots, shared by link |
| FullPage Screenshot | Whole-site screenshot ZIPs with frames and stamps |
| Pulse Extractor | Capture plus the data, text and documents inside the page |
The tools
GoFullPage
Best for: One-click full-page capture to PNG, JPEG or PDF. People who want a fast, reliable full-page screenshot of the page in front of them, with light editing.
- Captures the whole current page by scrolling and stitching, started from the toolbar icon or Alt+Shift+P.[1]
- Exports to PNG, JPEG or PDF in several paper sizes, or copies to the clipboard.[2]
- States that it handles complex pages, including inner scrollable elements and embedded iframes.[3]
Choose it when: you only need a picture of the whole page, as an image or PDF, and nothing extracted from it. GoFullPage vs Pulse Extractor, in detail.
FireShot
Best for: Batch capture and link-preserving PDFs. 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.[4]
- Can capture all open tabs, or a supplied list of URLs, in an automatic batch.[5]
- FireShot Pro is sold at $39.95 a year or $99.95 as a one-time lifetime licence.[6]
Choose it when: you need PDFs with working links and searchable text, or many output destinations. FireShot vs Pulse Extractor, in detail.
Awesome Screenshot
Best for: Recording plus screenshots, shared by link. 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.[7]
- Captures a full page, a selected area or the visible part of a webpage, and also the entire screen or an app window.[8]
- 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.[9]
Choose it when: you need screen recording with voice and webcam as well as screenshots. Awesome Screenshot vs Pulse Extractor, in detail.
FullPage Screenshot (fullpagescreenshot.eu)
Best for: Whole-site screenshot ZIPs with frames and stamps. QA, design, marketing and compliance teams who capture and mark up many pages and want whole-site screenshot exports.
- Captures a full page by scrolling and stitching, with crop, annotation (pen, line, arrow, shapes, text) and blur and redact.[10]
- Can capture a whole site from a URL or an imported sitemap.xml and download every page as one ZIP.[11]
- Costs $3 a month after a 14-day free trial, with every feature in one plan.[12]
Choose it when: you need screenshots of every page of a site from a URL or sitemap, delivered as one ZIP. FullPage Screenshot vs Pulse Extractor, in detail.
Pulse Extractor
Best for: Capture plus the data, text and documents inside the page. Described here as of Pulse Extractor 0.5.8, the current Chrome Web Store release.
- Capture Full Page saves the whole page as one high-resolution PNG or a multi-page PDF (Live in 0.5.8).
- Smart Snip Studio: crop, straighten, rotate, resize, annotate, highlight, blur, pixelate, redact and watermark, with the original kept (Live in 0.5.8).
- 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.
- 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).
Which one for your situation
| Your situation | A good fit |
|---|---|
| Just a picture of the whole page, fast | GoFullPage |
| JPEG output | GoFullPage, FireShot, Awesome Screenshot or FullPage Screenshot |
| All open tabs, or a list of URLs, in one go | FireShot |
| Every page of a site as one ZIP | FullPage Screenshot |
| A video walkthrough as well as screenshots | Awesome Screenshot |
| The table or text on the page, as Excel or Word | Pulse Extractor |
| Redaction that also removes the hidden words from text exports | Pulse Extractor |
How this guide was made
Disclosure: this guide is published by Pulse Extractor, which makes one of the tools listed. Every statement about another product restates what that product publishes about itself, in our own words, with a link to the source and the date we checked it; we did not test the other tools, so their entries report their claims, not our measurements. The recommendations are by situation, and Pulse is not the answer to most of them. Products change: check the sources before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.
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Sources
- GoFullPage: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- GoFullPage: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- GoFullPage: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FireShot: getfireshot.com/buy.php, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- Awesome Screenshot: Chrome Web Store listing, checked
- FullPage Screenshot: fullpagescreenshot.eu, checked
- FullPage Screenshot: fullpagescreenshot.eu/whole-site-zip-export, checked
- FullPage Screenshot: fullpagescreenshot.eu, checked