Screenshot capture is how an annotation leaves your browser. Highlite renders every highlight, sticky note, text box, drawing, arrow and shape into the image, at your screen resolution, in one of three modes: the visible viewport, the full scrollable page, or an area you drag to select. All three are free and need no account.
Key Benefits
- Three capture modes: viewport, full scrollable page, or a selected area
- Annotations are rendered into the image, not lost
- Copy to the clipboard and paste in one step
- Download as a PNG at your screen resolution
- Free, with no account and no watermark
- Nothing is uploaded — the capture happens in your browser
Use Cases
- Bug reports pasted into Jira or Linear
- Design feedback dropped into Slack
- Saving a full-page reference before it changes
- Pasting an annotated screen into an LLM chat
- Archiving a page with your notes on it
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Three ways to capture
Open the Export panel and choose what to capture. Viewport takes exactly what is on screen, which is the fastest way to send one element with an arrow on it. Full page scrolls through the document one screen at a time and stitches the tiles into a single image, then puts you back where you were — the mode for a landing page review or an archive of a long article. Selection lets you drag a rectangle over the part that matters, so the screenshot arrives already cropped to the bug.
Your annotations are in the image
This is what separates Highlite from a plain screenshot extension. The capture is taken with every highlight, sticky note, text box, drawing, arrow and shape rendered in place, at your screen resolution. The person who receives it does not need Highlite, an account or a link: they see the page and the feedback on it, in one image they can read in the thread where you pasted it.
Download or copy to the clipboard
Pick a destination once the capture is taken. Download saves a PNG file. Copy puts the image on your clipboard, so the next Cmd/Ctrl+V lands it in Slack, Jira, Linear, Notion, an email or a document without a file ever touching your disk. Premium adds a third destination that skips the paste step; it is covered on the Sharing and export page, at /features/sharing.
What screenshot capture does not do
- Full-page capture scrolls and stitches, so elements fixed to the viewport (sticky headers, cookie banners) repeat in every tile, content that lazy-loads after the scroll may be missing, and horizontal overflow is not captured. Very long pages are capped at 16000 device pixels tall.
- The capture is a flat image: the annotations in it are no longer editable. To hand over editable annotations, use the JSON export (Premium) instead.
- There is no scheduled, automatic or batch capture, and no capture of a page you have not opened.
- Browser pages (the store, settings, new tab) and other extensions’ pages cannot be captured, because extensions are not allowed to run there.
- Downloading and copying a capture are free everywhere. The Premium destinations that skip the paste step are covered on the Sharing and export page.
Explore Other Features
Sharing & export
Send your annotated screenshot to Slack, or export the annotations themselves as a JSON file a teammate can import. Nothing leaves your browser until you decide.
Drawing & arrows
Point at the thing you mean. Straight arrows, rectangles, ellipses and a freehand pen, drawn straight onto any live page and kept in the screenshot.
Text highlighting
Select any text on a webpage and highlight it with five colors. Highlights persist across sessions and stay 100% private in your browser.
Guides from the blog
How to Take a Full-Page Screenshot With Annotations
A full-page screenshot of a landing page is 12,000 pixels tall and nobody scrolls it. Capturing everything is the easy half; making it readable is the half that gets skipped.
GoFullPage vs Highlite: Capture the Page or Explain It?
GoFullPage is excellent at one job: capturing an entire page. But a screenshot is where feedback starts, not where it ends. Here's where each tool fits.
Copy Screenshots to Clipboard for ChatGPT and Claude
You're not slow at prompting. You're slow at the part before the prompt — saving, finding, and uploading the screenshot. Here's how to skip all of it.