Best screenshot extensions for Chrome, and what to use for feedback

People search for a screenshot extension for two very different reasons, and most lists online mix them up.

Some people want a picture. A whole landing page for a portfolio, a receipt, a chart to drop into a deck. Others want to tell somebody about a website. "This button is broken." "Can we make the headline shorter?" The screenshot is just the only way they know how to point.

I build Lasso, which is in the second camp, so take my opinions with the right amount of salt. The honest answer is that the best tool depends on which of those two jobs you have.

If you just need a picture

Chrome's own DevTools. Before you install anything, you may not need to. Open DevTools, press Cmd+Shift+P (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows), type "screenshot" and pick "Capture full size screenshot". You get the whole page as a PNG. It's clunky, but it's free and already there.

GoFullPage. The one most people end up with for full-page captures. One click, it scrolls the page and stitches everything into a single image you can save as a PNG or PDF. It does that one job and does it well.

Awesome Screenshot. The all-in-one option. Visible area, a selected area or the full page, then arrows, text, blur and highlights in an editor, plus screen recording. If you take a lot of annotated screenshots for documentation, it covers most of it.

Lightshot. Fast and minimal. Drag over an area, add a quick arrow or box, and get a short link to share. Good for "look at this" moments in a chat.

Any of these is a fine choice if the image is the thing you're making.

If you're giving feedback, the screenshot is the slow part

Here's what giving feedback with a screenshot extension usually looks like. Capture, crop, draw an arrow, save, open Slack or Jira, upload, type the URL, explain which part you meant, and repeat for the next issue. Then the page changes and half the screenshots show something that no longer exists. Somebody asks which button you meant anyway.

The screenshot was never the goal. It was a way of pointing at something on a page, and it's a clumsy way to point.

How Lasso handles it

With Lasso you don't take the screenshot. You click the thing you want to talk about and type your comment. Lasso takes a screenshot of that exact spot on its own, the moment you click, and keeps it with the comment.

A few things come with that for free.

The comment stays pinned to the element on the live page, so the person who picks it up clicks Visit and lands right on it. No URL to copy, no "which one?".

The screenshot shows what you saw, even after the page changes. Six weeks and a redesign later, you can still tell what the complaint was about.

Everything lands in one place. Comments go into collections you share with your team, sorted by site, with a library of every page you've marked up. Nobody digs through a Downloads folder full of files named Screenshot 2026 something.

And it hands off cleanly. Teammates get an @mention, comments can go to Slack or become Asana tasks with the screenshot attached, and Export for AI turns the whole collection into a brief for Cursor, Claude or ChatGPT, screenshots included.

What Lasso doesn't do

It isn't a full-page capture tool. If you want a picture of an entire page to keep or send, use GoFullPage or DevTools. It also doesn't record video. Lasso's screenshots are of the part you're commenting on, because that's what feedback needs.

So which one?

If you're making an image, pick a screenshot extension. GoFullPage for whole pages, Awesome Screenshot if you want an editor and recording, Lightshot for quick shared snippets.

If you're taking screenshots to explain something about a website to someone else, try skipping the screenshot. Install Lasso, open the page you're working on and leave one comment. The screenshot takes itself.