Explain and Send Screenshots
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CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
Capture or record a video of your screen, write text or arrows and share it. The safest extension with NO crazy permissions!
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Description from store
• Quick and clean interface
• Take screenshots, draw arrows, circles, blur, crop and more.
• Record a video of your screen and speak into the mic.
• Much safer than the rest. NO permissions required!
Try installing other screenshot extensions and read their install permissions ...they are crazy! Every other extension has this permission: "Read and change ALL YOUR DATA on the websites you visit." Google says they can request or modify data from sites like your bank account or Facebook etc. Refer to: https://goo.gl/EYndEt As an experienced developer I have introduced the same functions with no permissions required to make your experience safer.
• Background removal + substitution done locally with AI
• Extra features are available upon contributing "any" amount.
• Supports "Save to Google Drive"
• Right click context menu for quick screen captures
• Assign shortcut keys
Take a full or partial snapshot of any website or even upload an image into the cloud that you'd like to share or send to someone. You can draw arrows, lines, circles to point out things or even move, erase or delete selections and even annotate the snapshot by placing text right on the image.
Then you can copy the image to the clipboard and paste it into your email or download the image onto your desktop. You can also get a direct link to the image and share it on Facebook or Twitter with direct links to the image.
Changelog: https://jasonsavard.com/wiki/Explain_and_Send_Screenshots_changelog
Latest reviews
- Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt
- Great little tool. I use it all the time. My only wish (wouldn't take a star off for it): the ability to record the video stream from the webcam as PIP when choosing "Record Screen". Why not "Enable webcam" alongside "Enable mic"?
- Blue Chan
- My update since Jun 28, 2018 here in Jun 11, 2025. Revisted this extension since then. The video record option still can ONLY use audio from the MIC and won't capture the sound playing in the tab. Though it claims it can capture the playing video, it won't work for Youtube ones (obviously) and for the pages it does work on, it won't capture the sound portion. As for the screen image capture. Sorry you missed the mark on this extension. Love your Gmail one. Been using and donating for years now. But this capture tool fails the mark. I found using LightShot (WIN/MAC) - a small program that replaces the standard Print Scrn button capture the screen or a portion we select, add text, boxes or marks and then save. That is what this should have been but it's mediocre and maybe the video options should have been left out of this as they don't quite work as we would like it to.
- Alexander Pardon
- After adding the text or an arrow it is not possoble to move the text or arrow after. So it is hard to use. It is possible to move it around while you edit the text...but the text block keeps moving and cannot place it anymore. Really bugged!
- Shane Wright
- I don't think I've EVER rated an extension before. But this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. No crazy "read and change all data on all websites" permissions - select a portion of a page, and add consistent-looking annotations (arrows/etc) to it, then Copy to clipboard. Easy and does it great. FINALLY found it!
- Sepidaran Web
- easy to use
- Abdelaadim Ouard
- man. this used to be a good little tool. now it displays text and url into your screenshot and you need to pay to remove that. good tool ruined by greed
- James Ross (Jamie)
- I paid again. not because you asked or something happened, I did it for me. The value I have had from this extension over the years makes me feel guilty for that one-time price back in 2019. Thats over 5 years ago,. It’s incredible how much I benefit from this tool every day. Thanks, Jason nice work.
- Gregor Makovec
- Excellent
- Atti Ylänen
- Awesome! Just awesome. Just what I need. Simple tool to take screenshots, add comments and share! Thank you!
- Cara Ernest
- Exactly what I was looking for - a dead simple way to take a screenshot and then circle something on it. Thank you!
- Breno NS
- Nice
- Marc Bradley
- Excellent. I paid for a recurring monthly license to keep my cost low on the entire suite from Jason Savard. NICE!
- mo sayed
- a watermark text for a screenshot ? removed
- Stanislava Velinova
- User friendly, very handy
- Francis Fernandez
- This is a very good alternative to my long time Nimbus extension which by the way is limited to a few screenshots now.
- Arizona Recommerce
- It's my favorite screenshot and screen recorder extension - it does everything really well, and there are no crazy privacy invading permissions. There isn't anything this extension can't do that the others do - except this one's free and doesn't spy on us or send mystery data to third party harvesters. I did send a contribution to get rid of the watermarks and also because I want to support Jason. All his apps are great and privacy friendly. Side note, for some reason the audio recorded with Explain and Send is far better than on that large competitor that starts with 'Awe', which is another major plus. Not sure why but it is, especially when using a bluetooth headset like Sony XM5. Sounds fabulous with Explain and Send, and basically useless on 'Awe'. Just sayin'. The ONLY downside - and it's a big one for me - is that the videos can only be saved in the open source WEBM format. This is not great as it requires re-encoding in order to be edited, which I need to do frequently. I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE an option (for extra pay of course) to let us save our video casts in MP4 format and at 1080p or higher.
- MTR Services
- its a great extension, is there anyway to remove the watermark without purchasing the Premium version?
- 無無
- 擷取整個網頁截圖會有問題，拼接後圖片會重疊一小部分，截圖進行修圖後，保存會有浮水印能去掉最好，部分功能要付費但不多基本功能夠用了。
- Ankit Gupta
- It significantly streamlines the process for me to articulate issues and bugs to developers. Personally, I find it quite enjoyable!
- George Dimopoulos
- My most used plugin. Thank you Jason
- Brandon Fifer
- I've been using the paid version of this extension for over a year now. Absolutely fantastic extension. Does everything I need it to do and more, is available on all my computers, is quick, convenient, and has no un-needed nonsense. The only thing I could wish to add is a quick keyboard shortcut or two. but tbh I would only remove 0.2 of a star for lacking that, as the right-click option is pretty easy as well.
- Brandon Fifer
- I've been using the paid version of this extension for over a year now. Absolutely fantastic extension. Does everything I need it to do and more, is available on all my computers, is quick, convenient, and has no un-needed nonsense. The only thing I could wish to add is a quick keyboard shortcut or two. but tbh I would only remove 0.2 of a star for lacking that, as the right-click option is pretty easy as well.
- sep comp
- very good extention. thanke you i wanna recomend one thing, show date and time in screenshots in watermark.it will be usable
- sep comp
- very good extention. thanke you i wanna recomend one thing, show date and time in screenshots in watermark.it will be usable
- Nick WANG
- the new version has some question, the video recording, I found the double image occurs when mouse moves
- Nick WANG
- the new version has some question, the video recording, I found the double image occurs when mouse moves
- Katerin
- Es la primera extension que valoro con cinco estrellas, de verdad cumple todas sus funciones.
- Miguel Prado
- Ha dejado de funcionar
- xrx
- Идеальное расширение в сравнении с остальными схожими!
- Ellen Yeresh
- You are doing the great job!!! Thank you for the such amazing tools!
- Ellen Yeresh
- You are doing the great job!!! Thank you for the such amazing tools!
- Da7win
- С каждым обновлением всё хуже и хуже работает на каких-то сайтах, постоянно выдает ошибку что не может сделать скриншот. Пользуюсь плагином уже много лет, есть премиум доступ, но чувствую придется искать что-то другое...
- Xavier Guzman
- I have been using this for a while, on and off. I love it, makes it easy to track stuff when doing reviews of things that need to be fixed on websites. However lately, i'm unable to correctly capture the Entire Page. It has been working exactly as the the "Visible Page" option for me...So i keep needing to take multiple screenshots by manually scrolling the page, which is inconvenient :(
- Xavier Guzman
- I have been using this for a while, on and off. I love it, makes it easy to track stuff when doing reviews of things that need to be fixed on websites. However lately, i'm unable to correctly capture the Entire Page. It has been working exactly as the the "Visible Page" option for me...So i keep needing to take multiple screenshots by manually scrolling the page, which is inconvenient :(
- Jon Fisher
- Usually works flawlessly, but the past few days, it hasn't been triggering when I want it to. Anything I can do?
- Jon Fisher
- Usually works flawlessly, but the past few days, it hasn't been triggering when I want it to. Anything I can do?
- _MemoryCore_
- wow much more easier to do than my mac ss. i'll defintely keep using this for a long time. the only thing i think is inconvient like is how it always start with arrow tool
- _MemoryCore_
- wow much more easier to do than my mac ss. i'll defintely keep using this for a long time. the only thing i think is inconvient like is how it always start with arrow tool
- Jose M
- Wow! Simplicity and effectiveness of this light tool! The best that I have used so far. Thank you Jason!
- Jose M
- Wow! Simplicity and effectiveness of this light tool! The best that I have used so far. Thank you Jason!
- Aaron Herbst
- unsure why not 5 stars
- Aaron Herbst
- unsure why not 5 stars
- damiansanz
- Muy buena extencion cumle con todo lo que dice, muy util
- GeckoTech GeckoTech
- Simple, full featured, easy to use, added so much value for me.. Thanks Jason, keep up with the great work, suing in Chrome and Vivaldi browser
- GeckoTech GeckoTech
- Simple, full featured, easy to use, added so much value for me.. Thanks Jason, keep up with the great work, suing in Chrome and Vivaldi browser
- Angelique Mercurio
- Been using this for years and it's truly the BEST screenshot tool ever. Thank you Jason Savard for these awesome life improvements.
- Angelique Mercurio
- Been using this for years and it's truly the BEST screenshot tool ever. Thank you Jason Savard for these awesome life improvements.
- Douglas Okolaa
- favorite
- Douglas Okolaa
- favorite
- Grand Stand for Piano
- Very helpful extension! We use this regularly! May you will continue to produce extensions that will help make other lives better. :) Thank you, Jason from all of us at grandstandforpiano.com