Free Screenshot Tool for Chrome

Drag the area you want on any page. Edit it like the Snipping Tool. Download a clean PNG.

Free, no watermark, nothing uploaded. Needs a free Demorta account.

The Snipping Tool is quick but its editor is thin, and most screenshot extensions stamp their name on anything you download for free. This does the drag-to-capture inside the tab, opens the capture in an editor immediately, and gives you a plain PNG.

It lives in the Demorta recorder bar, which is the Chrome extension we make for recording interactive product demos. You do not have to record anything to use it -- press Screenshot, or Ctrl+Shift+8, on any page.

STEP 1
Install the extension

From the Chrome Web Store. Sign in to Demorta once; the extension picks the login up from the site.

STEP 2
Press Screenshot

In the recorder bar, or press Ctrl+Shift+8. The page dims and you drag the area you want. One click takes the whole visible page.

STEP 3
Edit it

Crop, box, arrow, pen, highlighter, text and a pixelating blur for anything private. Ctrl+Z undoes. Paste or drop an existing image to edit that instead.

STEP 4
Download or copy

A clean PNG to your Downloads folder, or straight to the clipboard. No badge, no upload, no link to expire.

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What it does

  • Area capture inside the page -- drag a rectangle; the browser frame, tabs and bookmarks are never in the shot.
  • Snipping-Tool-style editing -- box, arrow, pen, highlighter, text label, crop.
  • Blur that cannot be undone -- pixelation, not a soft blur, so names and numbers are actually gone.
  • Works on images you already have -- paste with Ctrl+V or drop a file onto the editor.
  • Stays on your machine -- the editor runs in your browser and the download is local.

What it does not do

It captures web pages only, because it is a Chrome extension: for a desktop app, a dialog or a video call, use the operating system shortcut. It does not take scrolling full-page captures -- a dedicated capture extension is better for those. And it needs a free account, which is the trade for no watermark and no upload.

Why a demo tool ships a screenshot tool

Because the same people need both. Someone who records a walkthrough of their product on Monday sends a screenshot of one screen on Tuesday, and the recorder already has the capture, the blur and the editor built for its own steps. Exposing them as a screenshot button was a small change that makes the extension useful before anyone records a single demo.

If you do end up needing a sequence rather than a single frame, the Record demo button is next to Screenshot. Five demos are free.

Questions

Is the screenshot tool really free?

Yes. It needs a free Demorta account and nothing else -- no card, no trial period, no watermark on the download, and no limit on how many screenshots you take.

Does it add a watermark?

No. The download is a plain PNG of what you edited. Free screenshot tools often watermark to advertise themselves; this one is free because it is part of a product you may or may not later use.

Are my screenshots uploaded anywhere?

No. The capture is taken by the extension, edited in your browser tab, and downloaded from there. Nothing is sent to a server.

Can I screenshot a whole scrolling page?

Not with this tool -- it captures what is visible, or the area you drag within it. For full-page scrolling captures use a dedicated capture extension.

What is the keyboard shortcut?

Ctrl+Shift+8 starts an area screenshot whenever nothing is being recorded. If the key does nothing, Chrome has not bound it -- the recorder bar shows a button that opens chrome://extensions/shortcuts where you can set it.

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