Cyclops – Full Page Screenshot

One-click full page scrolling screenshots. Save as high-res PNG or PDF into date-organized folders you choose. Annotate & copy.

One eye. The whole page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛 FIRST, THE STORY Three thousand years ago, on an island at the edge of the wine-dark sea, Odysseus — the original "man of many turns" — crept into a cave that belonged to a cyclops. You probably know how that went: a sharpened stake, a clever false name, an escape under the bellies of sheep. Homer framed it as a triumph. At Polytropos Lab, we always read it a little differently. Because think about what that eye could DO. One glance, and it took in everything — the whole cave, every sheep, every hiding sailor, nothing cropped, nothing missed, nothing "outside the viewport". An eye like that sees the entire picture at once, top to bottom, in a single look. And what was it doing with this gift? Guarding cheese. We decided the story deserved a better ending. So we took the cyclops in, gave it a warm corner of your browser toolbar, and put that magnificent eye to honest work. Now, when you need a page — the WHOLE page, not the sliver on your screen — Cyclops opens its eye once, and everything is captured. Every scroll, every section, every footnote at the bottom that other tools forget exists. One eye. The whole page. Finally, a happy ending. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ WHAT CYCLOPS DOES Click the toolbar icon or press Alt+Shift+S. Cyclops scrolls the page for you — smoothly, automatically, all the way down — stitches every screenful into one seamless, native-resolution image, and writes the finished file straight into a folder you chose on YOUR computer. No save dialog to click through. No cropping guesswork. No "capture, scroll, capture again, and pray you can line them up later". One command, one file, done. It is the difference between photographing a mural one brick at a time and simply stepping back far enough to see it whole. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆓 THE PART OTHER TOOLS CHARGE FOR Somewhere along the way, screenshot extensions quietly became subscription businesses. You have probably met them. Full-page capture locked behind a "Pro" badge. PDF export as a paid upgrade. A watermark stamped across your free captures like a parking ticket. Daily capture limits that reset just slowly enough to annoy you into paying. Mandatory accounts. Your screenshots uploaded to "the cloud" — which is to say, someone else's computer — where they live on servers you never asked for, governed by a privacy policy you never read. Cyclops does none of this. Read the list slowly; each line is something you may have been asked to pay for elsewhere: • Full-page scrolling capture — free • PDF export (single page AND print-ready A4) — free • Native-resolution PNG — free • Annotation tools — free • Unlimited captures, every day, forever — free • No watermark. Ever. On anything. • No account. No sign-up screen. No newsletter you didn't ask for. • No cloud. Your files never leave your machine. • No trial countdown. No "upgrade to unlock". No Pro tier AT ALL. This is not the free tier of something. This is the whole product, and it is yours. The cyclops spent three millennia being robbed by a clever sailor; it refuses to run that scam on you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 THREE CAPTURE MODES, ONE REFLEX FULL PAGE — The signature move. One continuous image from the very top of the page to the very bottom, including every section you would normally scroll to reach. Long articles, dashboards, entire product pages, chat logs, comment threads: captured as a single unbroken image, exactly as the page rendered. VISIBLE AREA — Sometimes you just want what's in front of you. One click captures the current viewport, pixel for pixel, and saves it with the same tidy naming as everything else. SELECT REGION — Drag a rectangle over exactly the part you need: one paragraph, one chart, one suspicious error message. Everything outside your rectangle stays out of the file. Three modes, all one click from the popup, all obeying the same rule: capture instantly, save automatically, never interrupt you with questions you already answered. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💾 SAVING THAT ORGANIZES ITSELF Most screenshot tools treat saving as your problem. Cyclops treats it as the job. CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT. PNG at native resolution when you need pixels. PDF as one long, scrollable page when you want a faithful copy. PDF A4 when the capture is headed for a printer or a formal report — Cyclops splits the page into clean A4 sheets for you. CHOOSE YOUR FOLDER — ONCE. Tell Cyclops where captures belong, and never see a save dialog again. Every capture goes exactly there, every time. DATES DO THE FILING. Inside your folder, captures land in a subfolder named for the day — 2026-08-14 — so a year of screenshots organizes itself into a calendar instead of congealing into a thousand-file soup. NAMES THAT MEAN SOMETHING. Every file is named site + date + time: example.com_2026-08-14_09-15-27.png. Six months from now, you will find the exact capture you need by reading filenames, not by opening forty images called "Screenshot (137)". ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ AFTER THE CAPTURE The capture is rarely the end of the job, so Cyclops keeps working after the shutter. ANNOTATE IN PLACE. Open your capture and mark it up with pen, arrow and rectangle — circle the bug, point at the button, box the number that doesn't add up. The file on disk updates in place. No export step, no second copy, no "annotated_final_v3.png". ONE-CLICK CLIPBOARD. Copy any capture to the clipboard and paste it straight into Slack, Teams, an email, a doc, a ticket. The fastest path from "look at this" to someone actually looking at it. HISTORY THAT REMEMBERS. The History page keeps your last 30 captures one click away — reopen, re-copy, or re-annotate without spelunking through folders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHO KEEPS A CYCLOPS AROUND DEVELOPERS & QA — Bug reports that show the entire page state, console-to-footer, instead of a crop that hides the one element that mattered. Filed by date, named by site, reproducible by anyone. DESIGNERS — Full-length captures of live pages at native resolution: perfect for design reviews, competitor teardowns, before/after comparisons, and portfolio receipts of shipped work. RESEARCHERS & STUDENTS — Articles, papers and documentation archived as clean offline PDFs that survive paywalls, redesigns and dead links. Your sources, frozen exactly as you read them. FINANCE & OPERATIONS — Receipts, invoices, order confirmations and dashboards captured with timestamp and source in the filename. When someone asks for proof in April, you will have it in seconds. SUPPORT TEAMS — See exactly what the customer saw, whole page, no ambiguity, annotated with an arrow pointing at the problem. ANYONE WHO SHOPS, BOOKS, OR SIGNS THINGS ONLINE — Prices before they change. Confirmation pages before they vanish. Terms before the "we've updated our terms" email. The web forgets; your dated folder does not. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ SPEED IS A FEATURE Alt+Shift+S captures the full page from anywhere — no mouse required. Every mode is one click from the popup. Options are set once and remembered forever. Cyclops is built on a simple conviction: a screenshot tool should cost you two seconds, not a decision. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY, PLAINLY (AND SPECIFICALLY) Every screenshot tool should answer these questions in writing. Here are our answers: WHAT DATA DOES CYCLOPS COLLECT? None. No analytics, no telemetry, no usage stats, no crash reports, no "anonymous" identifiers. Nothing. WHERE DO CAPTURES GO? To the local folder you chose on your machine. Nowhere else. There is no Cyclops server; the extension makes no network requests at all. WHAT CAN IT SEE? Only the tab you explicitly capture, only at the moment you trigger it. Cyclops does NOT request the "read data on all websites" permission that many extensions ask for on install. It cannot watch your browsing, because it never holds that key in the first place. WHAT ABOUT MY PREFERENCES AND HISTORY? Your format choice, folder name and the 30-item capture history (small thumbnails) live in your browser's local storage, on your device. They never leave your computer. THE SHORT VERSION: there is no cloud, so there is nothing to leak, mine, sell, or subpoena. Privacy isn't a premium feature here. It's the architecture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ HONEST ANSWERS Can it capture browser system pages (chrome:// settings, the Web Store)? No — Chrome forbids ALL extensions from touching those pages. That's a browser rule, not a bug. Does it work on very long pages? Yes — that is the entire point. Feeds that load forever as you scroll are captured up to the content loaded at capture time. Do I need an account? No. There is nothing to sign into. Is "free" hiding something? No. No trial, no limits, no watermark, no Pro tier. The lab runs on optional Patreon support, not on holding your screenshots hostage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛 FROM POLYTROPOS LAB Polytropos Lab is an independent one-person workshop shipping free, local-first, myth-named tools — built with the stubborn old-fashioned idea that software can simply be good, do its job on your machine, and leave you alone. No investors waiting for a subscription pivot. No growth team A/B-testing your patience. If Cyclops earns its keep in your toolbar, you can send the lab fair winds on Patreon. Support unlocks nothing but gratitude — the whole product is already in your hands. Many turns. One craft. Fair winds, sailor. ⛵