ChobiTake the screenshot you actually wanted.
Drag over the bit you need, or take a whole scrolling page in one tall image. Then mark it up, blur anything private, and save it in whatever format you need.
Free. No account. Nothing gets uploaded.
It all happens in your browser
Chobi is an extension, not a service. No sign-in, no cloud library, no upload step. Whatever you capture stays on your own computer.
Grab just the part you want
Drag across the page and keep only what you need. If the box is not quite right, pull the corner handles until it is.
Or point at one thing and click
Element Capture lights up whatever sits under your cursor, a card, a table, a chart, and takes exactly that when you click. Nothing to drag, no edges to trim afterwards.
Or the entire scrolling page
Chobi scrolls the page for you, shoots it piece by piece, then stitches it into one tall image. Sticky headers get hidden after the first frame, so you do not end up with the same navbar repeating all the way down.
Blur what should stay private
Client emails, phone numbers, invoice totals, API keys. Drag the blur tool over anything you would rather not share, before the image goes anywhere.
Draw on it, then fix what you drew
Arrows, boxes, highlighter and text. Numbered badges for when you are writing out steps, and a spotlight that dims everything except the bit you are pointing at. Put an arrow in the wrong place? Grab it, move it, resize it, or throw it away.
Save it however you need it
PNG, JPG, WEBP, PDF or SVG. Star the one you use most and Save skips straight to it. Or copy it to the clipboard, print it, or send it on with one click.
Closed the tab too soon?
Your last fifteen captures stay on the device. Open Recent in the editor, pick one, and carry on where you left off.
Right-click works too
Right-click anywhere on a page for the three capture modes, or right-click a picture and take it straight at full size, without a screenshot at all.
Need a menu to stay open?
Set a 3 or 5 second delay in the popup. Chobi counts down on the toolbar icon, so you can open the dropdown or hover over the thing you want, and the shot waits for you.
English or বাংলা, whichever Chrome is set to
Every button, menu and message comes in both languages. Chobi follows the language your browser already uses, so there is no setting to find and nothing to switch on.
It installs in about a minute
Chobi comes from the Chrome Web Store, so Chrome checks it and keeps it updated. There is nothing to set up afterwards.
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Open the store page
Press any Add to Chrome button on this page. It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and the other Chromium browsers.
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Confirm the install
Click the blue Add to Chrome button on the store page, then Add extension in the little box Chrome pops up.
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Pin it to the toolbar
New extensions hide behind the puzzle-piece icon. Pin Chobi and it stays one click away. There is a picture of this just below.
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Take your first shot
Open any website, click the Chobi icon, and pick Area Capture, Element Capture or Full Page Capture. Right-clicking the page gives you the same three.
Pinning takes two clicks
Click the puzzle-piece icon at the top right of Chrome. Find Chobi in the list that drops down, then click the pin beside it.
After that the icon stays in your toolbar, and the shortcuts AltShiftS and AltShiftF work from any page.
Shortcuts worth learning
The rest sit behind the ? button in the editor, so you do not need to keep a list open anywhere.
On a Mac, use ⌘ instead of Ctrl.
Questions we get asked
Why does it ask to read data on all websites?
To photograph a page, an extension has to be allowed to see that page. Every screenshot tool asks for the same thing. Chobi does nothing while you browse. It touches a page only in the moment after you start a capture, and the image goes to your clipboard or your Downloads folder, never to a server.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Captures are handled in your browser and saved on your own computer. No account, no analytics, no tracking. The privacy policy spells it all out.
Some pages will not capture. Why?
Chrome blocks extensions on its own pages, so Settings, Extensions, the New Tab page and the Chrome Web Store are off limits, and so is the built-in PDF viewer. No extension can capture those. Everything else works, including PDFs on the web. For a file opened from your own computer, Chrome asks you to tick Allow access to file URLs on the Chobi entry in your extensions list first, and Chobi shows you the way there when it spots one.
Full page capture missed part of a long page.
Some pages only load content as you scroll. Chobi walks the page first to wake that content up, then captures. On very heavy pages it can still miss something. Send the link to hello@devxhub.com and we will look at it.
Is it free? Will that change?
It is free, with no ads and nothing locked behind a payment. If it saves you time you can support the work, but nothing in the extension depends on it.
Try it on your next screenshot
It takes a minute to install, and one capture is enough to tell whether it suits the way you work.