ScreenBolt

Free screenshot & screen recording tool. Capture, annotate, and record — no limits, no account, 100% local.

ScreenBolt — Free Screenshot & Screen Recording Tool Capture, annotate, and record your screen with zero limitations. No account required, no time limits, and 100% local — your data never leaves your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 SCREENSHOT TOOLS • Visible Area Capture — Instantly capture what's visible in your browser tab with one click or keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+V). • Full Page Capture — Automatically scrolls through long pages and stitches the captures into one seamless tall image. Perfect for capturing entire articles, documentation, or design mockups. • Selection Capture — Click and drag to capture any specific area on the page. A crosshair overlay with instructions guides you through the selection process (Alt+Shift+S). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ BUILT-IN ANNOTATION EDITOR Every screenshot opens in a powerful built-in editor with 9 professional annotation tools: • Arrow — Draw arrows to point at specific elements • Rectangle — Outline areas with rounded-corner rectangles • Ellipse — Circle important content • Line — Draw straight lines • Freehand Pen — Sketch freely with a smooth pen tool • Text — Click anywhere to add text annotations with customizable size • Blur / Pixelate — Obscure sensitive information (emails, passwords, personal data) • Highlight — Draw semi-transparent yellow markers over text • Crop — Select an area and trim your screenshot Additional editor features: • Color picker — Choose any annotation color • Stroke width — Thin, Medium, or Thick • Undo / Redo — Full history stack (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z) • Keyboard shortcuts — Every tool has a single-key shortcut (A, R, E, L, P, T, B, H, C) • Export formats — Save as PNG, JPG, or PDF • Copy to clipboard — Paste directly into emails, docs, or chat apps • Real-time status bar — Shows dimensions and estimated file size ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 SCREEN RECORDING Record your screen with no time limits, no watermarks, and no sign-up: • Tab Recording — Record the current browser tab with audio • Screen / Window Recording — Record your entire screen or a specific window • Camera Recording — Record from your webcam only Recording features: • Picture-in-Picture (PiP) webcam overlay — Show your face in a circular bubble while recording your screen, with configurable position (4 corners) and size (small/medium/large) • Audio controls — Capture system/tab audio, microphone, or both • Live audio level meter — See your mic input level before recording • Mute / Unmute — Toggle microphone during recording • Pause / Resume — Pause and resume without splitting the recording • Countdown timer — Optional 3-2-1 countdown before recording starts • Resolution options — 720p, 1080p, or 4K • Floating controls widget — A draggable overlay with timer, pause, mute, and stop buttons appears on your page during recording Recording export: • WebM — Native format, instant download • MP4 — Convert to MP4 using ffmpeg.wasm (runs entirely in your browser, loaded only when needed) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 CAPTURE HISTORY All your captures are saved locally with thumbnails: • Grid view with image previews • Filter by type (Screenshots / Recordings) • Search by filename • Sort by date, size, or name • Click to re-open in editor • Delete individual items or clear all • Configurable history limit (50, 100, or 200 items) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ CUSTOMIZABLE SETTINGS • Screenshot format — PNG or JPG (with quality slider) • After-capture action — Open in editor, save directly, or copy to clipboard • Recording defaults — Resolution, audio, PiP, countdown, format • Theme — Dark, Light, or System (auto-detect) • Notifications — Toggle capture notifications on/off • History — Enable/disable history, set max items ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Alt+Shift+V — Capture visible area • Alt+Shift+F — Capture full page • Alt+Shift+S — Capture selection • Customizable in chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 BEAUTIFUL THEMES Choose between Dark Mode, Light Mode, or System Auto-detect. The theme applies consistently across every page — popup, editor, recorder, history, and settings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST ScreenBolt is 100% local: • No accounts or sign-ups • No data collection or tracking • No analytics • No external servers • All captures stay on your device • All processing happens in your browser • Open source ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆓 TRULY FREE No premium tiers, no watermarks, no time limits, no ads. Every feature is available to everyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED • activeTab — Access the current tab to capture its content • tabCapture — Capture tab video/audio for recording • desktopCapture — Capture full screen or window for recording • downloads — Save captures and recordings to your Downloads folder • storage — Store your preferences and capture history locally • offscreen — Clipboard operations (copy screenshot to clipboard) • scripting — Inject capture overlay when you initiate area selection • notifications — Show capture completion notifications • alarms — Keep background processes alive during recording ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built with Manifest V3. No remote code. No bundled trackers. Just a clean, fast, privacy-respecting tool that does exactly what it says.