Swiftshot — Screenshot An
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Overview
SwiftShot — The complete screenshot toolkit for Chrome.
Capture any web page, annotate it with pro tools, wrap it in a beautiful frame, and share it instantly. SwiftShot replaces 4-5 separate tools with one fast, polished extension that lives entirely in your browser.
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✨ What's new in v1.1
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• Animated screenshots — animated stickers now upload as looping GIFs
• Sharper GIF exports — new colour engine eliminates banding
• Sticker rotation + Shift-resize for proportional scaling
• Cursors and Shapes tabs in the sticker library
• Caption text styles: plain, with background, or outlined
• Edit any text annotation directly via right-click → Edit text
• Bigger, branded watermark with a clean dark pill (Pro removes it)
• Cancel returns you to the original tab
• In-app user guide (press ?)
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🔍 Capture anything
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• Visible area — Ctrl+Shift+S (⌘+Shift+S on Mac)
• Specific element — Ctrl+Shift+E, then hover and click
• Full scrolling page — right-click → Capture full page
• Delayed capture — for hover states and disappearing menus
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✏️ Pro annotation tools
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• Pencil and Highlighter — freehand drawing with adjustable size
• Text — multiple fonts, sizes, colours, and 3 styles (plain, background pill, outlined)
• Arrow, Line, Rectangle, Circle — sharp callouts in any colour
• Numbered markers — perfect for tutorials and step-by-step guides
• Blur and Pixelate — protect emails, names, and sensitive content
• Edit any element after the fact — drag to move, drag corners to resize, drag rotation handle to spin
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🎨 Stickers and overlays
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• 90+ animated GIF stickers (cute characters, arrows, callouts)
• Cursor stickers — perfect for "click here" demos
• Shape stickers — stars, hearts, lightning, speech bubbles, check / X / question / exclamation badges
• Full Unicode emoji picker
• Upload your own PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP
• Favourite and Recent tabs so your most-used stickers are always one click away
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🪞 Frame & Beautify
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Turn a plain screenshot into a polished social-media or blog asset:
• Backgrounds — solid colour, gradient, pattern, custom image, or transparent
• Padding, corner radius, and shadow controls
• Aspect ratio presets: 16:9, 4:5, 1:1, 9:16 — ready for Twitter, Instagram, and more
• Browser chrome and macOS window mockups
• Captions with three text styles, multiple fonts, and adjustable position
• Drag stickers anywhere on the framed canvas, even into the padding
• Save your favourite combos as templates
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📤 Smart sharing
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• Save to disk — PNG, JPEG, or WebP
• Copy to clipboard — paste straight into Slack, Notion, email
• One-click upload — get a shareable link instantly
• Save as PDF — single-page export
• Animated GIF & WebM — animated stickers turn into looping shares automatically
• Share menu — copy link, email, post to Slack, all from one button
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📚 Local history
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• Every saved screenshot is kept in your browser, never uploaded
• Search by date, source URL, or filename
• Filter to Today, 7 days, 30 days, or Favourites
• Reopen anything in the editor with one click
• Star screenshots you want to keep forever
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⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts
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• ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + S — capture visible area
• ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + E — capture an element
• ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + F — open Frame & Beautify
• Number keys 1-9, 0 — switch tools instantly
• V — select / edit
• S — toggle sticker library
• ? — open the in-app user guide
• Esc — deselect / cancel current action
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🔒 Privacy first
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All editing happens locally in your browser. Screenshots stay on your
device unless you explicitly choose to upload them via the Share button.
SwiftShot does not track you, does not collect analytics, and does not
sell your data.
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💼 Built for everyone
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• Developers — document bugs, share implementation details
• Designers — capture inspiration, provide feedback
• Teachers — create instructional materials with numbered steps
• Marketers — turn product screenshots into social-ready assets
• Support teams — show, don't tell
• Students — visual notes and research highlights
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🚀 Getting started
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1. Click Add to Chrome
2. Pin the SwiftShot icon to your toolbar
3. Press ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + S on any page
4. Select an area, annotate, frame, share
That's it. Free to install, free to use, no account required.
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