Take Screenshots Online - Free Screen Capture Tool

What happens when you press Screenshot

Clicking the button opens your browser's sharing dialog. Chrome and Edge usually offer three kinds of source: a browser tab, an application window, or the entire screen. Other browsers may list only windows and screens. Once you pick one and confirm, ShotEdit draws the first frame it receives onto a canvas, keeps it as a PNG, and stops the share straight away. The sharing indicator in your browser or menu bar should disappear within a moment; nothing keeps recording in the background.

Because only one frame is taken, set up the target before you click. Scroll to the right spot and close menus you do not want in the shot. A tab capture contains only the visible part of the page, so this tool cannot produce a scrolling or full-length screenshot of a long page; take several captures instead. If you choose the ShotEdit tab itself, you simply get a picture of this page.

The image is as large as the frame the browser hands over, which on high-density displays is often the physical pixel size. That extra detail helps when you crop in later.

When the capture fails or looks wrong

If you close the dialog or click Cancel, nothing happens and you stay on the start screen; press the button again when you are ready. If the window you want is missing from the list, it is usually minimized or sitting on another desktop. As the note under the button says, restore or maximize that window, scroll down in the dialog if the list is long, and try again.

On macOS the browser needs Screen Recording permission in the system Privacy & Security settings before it can share windows or the whole screen. Without it the list may be empty or show only the wallpaper; after granting it, restart the browser. Protected content such as streaming video can also appear black in any screen share; the player enforces that, not this page.

Using it on a phone or tablet

Most mobile browsers, including Safari on iPhone and iPad, do not offer screen sharing to web pages, so the Screenshot button cannot capture anything there. The workaround is to take the screenshot with your device's own buttons or gesture, then tap Upload / Paste image under the Screenshot button and pick it from your photos or files. Cropping, saving, and copying then work as on a computer.

The file picker accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, and ICO. Pasting accepts JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, and WebP from the clipboard, and if several images were copied only the first one is used. Paste works on the start screen; once an image is open, clear it with the eraser button first. If a photo is stored as HEIC, run it through the HEIC to JPG converter before opening it here.

Cropping with fixed aspect ratios

The crop box is always locked to an aspect ratio, starting at 4:3. There are 13 choices: seven in the landscape group (1:1, 2:1, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 16:10, 16:9) and six portrait ones (1:2, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 10:16, 9:16). There is no free-form mode, so choose the ratio of the place the image is going: 16:9 for slides and video thumbnails, 1:1 for avatars and square posts, 4:5 for portrait feed posts, and 9:16 for stories.

The zoom buttons move in steps of 0.1 between 1x and 3x. The result is cut from the original pixels, so zooming in does not make it blurrier. The rotation slider runs from 0° to 360° in 1° steps, and the rotate button turns the image by 90°. At angles that are not a multiple of 90°, areas outside the picture can end up transparent in the PNG, so turn on the grid button: it switches the preview to a checkerboard that makes those areas easy to spot.

Undo leaves crop mode and discards the box position, zoom, and rotation. Apply replaces the image with the cropped PNG, and you can crop again from there. Rotation only exists inside crop mode, so if you just need to turn a whole screenshot without trimming it, the rotate image tool is the simpler route.

Saving, copying, and what to do next

Download always names the file ShotEdit-screenshot.png, so your browser may add a number to repeated downloads; rename the ones you plan to keep. While an image is open, Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac) downloads it and Ctrl+C (Cmd+C) copies it, which also means those keys do not copy text on this page until you clear the image. Nothing is stored: reloading or clearing discards the capture, so save it first.

Copy puts the image on your clipboard for pasting into a chat, document, or ticket. Some browsers accept only PNG images on the clipboard, so if copying fails right after you opened a JPG or WebP, apply a crop first; the cropped result is always a PNG. When you need a different format, the image converter turns the PNG into JPG or WebP, and the photo to rounded tool adds soft corners for slides and posts.