A GoFullPage alternative, chosen on what actually differs

Updated 14 August 20267 min readNitesh Padghan

GoFullPage left the Chrome Web Store on 10 August 2026 over a copyright complaint its developers say was raised in error, and 11 million people went looking for a replacement in the same week. Almost every full-page screenshot extension does the core job. They differ on four things that matter later: what permissions they hold, whether your pages are rendered on someone else's server, what the free tier withholds, and whether they get sticky headers right.

The comparison

	Full Page Screenshot	GoFullPage	FireShot	Awesome Screenshot	Chrome DevTools
In the Chrome Web Store	Yes	Delisted since 10 Aug 2026	Yes	Yes	Built in
Price	Free, no paid tier	Free; Premium from about $1/mo	Free tier; Pro one-time licence (~$40)	Free tier; paid plans for teams	Free
PDF export	Free	Free	Pro only	Free	No, PNG only
Annotate & crop	Free	Premium only	Pro only	Free	No
Account required	Never	For Premium	For Pro licence	For cloud & sharing	Never
Where capture happens	Your browser only	Your browser	Your browser	Browser, cloud for sharing	Your browser
Sticky-header handling	Pixel bands excluded per frame	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A, single render
App pages with an inner scroll pane	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial	No
Screen recording	No	No	No	Yes	No
Batch capture across tabs	No	No	Pro	No	No
Source available	MIT licensed	No	No	No	Chromium

Tiers and prices checked 14 August 2026 and change without notice, so confirm on each vendor's own page before buying anything.

The four things worth comparing

1. Permissions, not features

A screenshot extension that asks to "read and change all your data on all websites you visit" holds standing access to your banking tab, your email, and every internal tool you are logged into, permanently, whether or not you are capturing. The narrow alternative is Chrome's activeTab, which grants access to one tab in response to your click and expires by itself. It is worth checking on the store listing before you install anything, including mine.

2. Local capture versus server rendering

Some tools load the URL on their own infrastructure and render it there. That is fine for public marketing pages and unacceptable for anything behind a login: a server-side renderer either cannot see your logged-in view at all, or it can only see it because you handed over something that lets it. In-browser capture has neither problem.

3. What the free tier withholds

Every tool here captures a full page for free. The paywall usually sits on the step after capture: GoFullPage's markup tools are Premium, and FireShot's free tier is limited to PNG with JPEG and PDF export behind the Pro licence. If your workflow is capture → arrow → redact → PDF, you are on the paid path with both.

4. Sticky headers and inner scroll panes

These are the two places full-page capture actually breaks. A pinned nav bar gets photographed in every frame and stripes down your image. And an app-shell page (a mail client, a dashboard, a feed) pins the document to the viewport and scrolls an inner element instead, so naive tools hand back one screenful and call it a full page. Test any candidate on the exact pages you care about before committing; a tool that is perfect on a blog post can fail on your admin panel.

Each tool, and who it suits

Full Page Screenshot: if you want the GoFullPage experience with nothing withheld

Mine. One click captures; the preview opens on its own; crop, arrows, boxes, text, highlighter and redaction are included, not sold; export is PNG, JPEG or PDF. It asks only for activeTab, makes no network requests at all, and captures are deleted from your browser after 24 hours. The PDF export resizes the embedded image rather than mangling quality, which takes a long page from roughly 5 MB to around 1.4 MB without shrinking the document. MIT licensed, so it can be loaded unpacked if a store ever removes it, which, as August 2026 demonstrated, is not a hypothetical.

Capture Full Page: the closest like-for-like swap

One-click capture, a built-in editor, PDF export and clipboard copy. If what you want is "GoFullPage, but present in the store today," it is a reasonable pick and it is actively maintained.

FireShot: if you capture in bulk

The veteran of the category, and still the best answer for batch work across many tabs at once. The catch is the free tier: PNG only, with JPEG, PDF, batch capture and editing on the Pro licence. It is a one-time payment rather than a subscription, which some people strongly prefer.

Awesome Screenshot: if you also want recording and sharing

Screenshots plus screen recording plus a cloud workspace with shareable links. That last part is the trade: the free plan meters what you keep in their cloud, and the sharing features want an account. If your team lives on shared links it is worth it; if you just want a PNG on your desktop it is a lot of machinery.

Chrome DevTools: for the one you need right now

No install, already on your machine. ⌘⇧P in DevTools → "Capture full size screenshot". PNG only, no editing, no PDF, and it does not pre-scroll, so lazy-loaded images below the fold often come out blank. Full walkthrough in how to take a full page screenshot in Chrome.

Switching from GoFullPage in three minutes

Don't uninstall GoFullPage first. While its listing is down you cannot reinstall it. Leave the disabled copy where it is; details in what happened to GoFullPage.
Export anything you still keep inside it as ordinary files, to a folder you control.
Install the replacement and rebind the shortcut. GoFullPage used Alt⇧P; this one uses ⌘⇧Y out of the box, and you can change it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts to whatever your fingers already know.

One caution about this whole genre of page. A great many "GoFullPage alternative" articles published this week are written by the tools they recommend, including this one. Read the permissions on the store listing yourself, and treat any comparison table, mine included, as a starting point rather than a verdict.

Where mine is the wrong choice

In the interest of the caution above, the honest list of what Full Page Screenshot does not do:

No screen recording. Stills only. Awesome Screenshot if you need video.
No cloud, no share links, no team library. It hands you a file. That is the whole model.
No batch capture across many tabs; that is FireShot's territory.
No scheduled or API-driven capture. Use a screenshot API for that.
It is new, and it is one person. GoFullPage has eleven million users and a decade of edge cases behind it. Mine has a test suite and an author who answers email. Those are not the same kind of reassurance, and you should weigh that honestly.
Chromium browsers only: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, Vivaldi. No Firefox or Safari build.

Try it on the page that usually breaks

The dashboard, the long thread, the report with a sticky header. That is the test that separates these tools, not a blog post.

Get Full Page Screenshot See the wider roundup

Free. No account, no premium tier, no network requests.

FAQ

What is the best free alternative to GoFullPage?

If you want the same one-click flow with nothing gated: Full Page Screenshot or Capture Full Page. If you capture dozens of tabs at a time: FireShot. If you need recording and shareable links: Awesome Screenshot. If you need exactly one screenshot in the next minute: Chrome's own DevTools command.

Can I take a full page screenshot without any extension?

Yes. DevTools → command menu → "Capture full size screenshot". PNG only, and lazy-loaded content below the fold may be missing because it does not scroll the page first.

Why does my screenshot repeat the navigation bar?

A sticky or fixed header stays glued to the viewport while the tool scrolls, so it lands in every frame. Good tools either hide the pinned element or exclude the band of pixels it occupies from every frame after the first. The second approach is more reliable, because it does not depend on the page cooperating.

Is GoFullPage coming back?

Its developers say so, describe the removal as temporary and in error, and report that Google has been in contact. No date has been announced. It continues to work on Microsoft Edge in the meantime.

Will a replacement capture pages behind a login?

Any in-browser extension will, because it photographs the page as your browser has already rendered it. Server-side screenshot services generally will not, since they are not logged in as you, which is also the reason not to hand them credentials.