# BroDraw

> Draw, screenshot and annotate directly in your browser, Pen, highlighter, shapes, text, OCR, AI background removal, PDF editor, reader mode, 100% local - no cloud, no tracker, no account, 100% free, no ads.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/brodraw](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brodraw)

## Overview

- **ID:** `brodraw`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LC
- **Category:** bookmarks,photos-music-videos,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 17
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-22
- **First published:** 2026-04-30
- **Size:** 15 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brodraw/)

## Description

BroDraw - Turn your browser into a sketch pad

<strong>BroDraw</strong> turns any web page into a canvas. Draw, highlight, screenshot,
annotate and save - all directly in the browser. No app switch. No cloud.
No account.

Why BroDraw?
<ul><li><strong>Everything is local.</strong> No web service is contacted, no data leaves your
  machine. AI runs on-device.</li><li><strong>No account.</strong> Just install and use.</li><li><strong>15 languages.</strong> German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,
  Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic,
  Swedish.</li><li><strong>Open source.</strong></li></ul>
Features

Drawing
<ul><li>Pen with pressure sensitivity (tablet-pen)</li><li>Highlighter with smart text-height detection</li><li>Pixel eraser</li><li>Geometric shapes: line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse - in many variants
  (dashed, dotted, double, wavy, jagged, polygon, star, gear, cloud, ...)</li><li>Text with bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, font families, marker
  background, alignment</li><li>200+ stickers and emojis</li><li>Step markers (1, 2, 3, ...)</li><li>Pixelate / redact</li><li>9 preset colors + 6 custom slots + native eyedropper</li></ul>
Screenshot
<ul><li>Rectangle selection with adjustable edges</li><li>Lasso selection (free-form)</li><li>Direct to clipboard or saved as a slot</li></ul>
Image import
<ul><li>Paste from clipboard (Ctrl+V)</li><li>Drag-and-drop from desktop or web page</li><li>Move, scale, edit images with corner handles</li></ul>
Save and export
<ul><li>PNG with transparency</li><li>JPG (adjustable quality)</li><li>PDF (single page, scaled to fit)</li><li>Native "Save As" dialog</li></ul>
Slots (multi-clipboard)
<ul><li>Up to 5 slots at the same time</li><li>Every screenshot lands in a new slot automatically</li><li>Hover over a slot for a large preview</li><li>Right-click slot: Crop, OCR, Effects, Auto-Blur, Smart-Crop, BG-Remove</li></ul>
AI tools (local, no cloud)
<ul><li><strong>OCR</strong> - extract text from images via Tesseract.js (German + English)</li><li><strong>Auto-blur sensitive data</strong> - automatically detects email, phone,
  credit card, IBAN, IP address, SSN via OCR + regex and blurs them</li><li><strong>Smart-Crop</strong> - crops to the most interesting region of the image</li><li><strong>Background removal</strong> - extracts the main subject via U²-Net (5 MB
  on-device ML model)</li></ul>
PDF editor
<ul><li>Built-in PDF viewer with annotations OVER the page</li><li>Text layer for selecting / copying PDF text</li><li>OCR on PDF pages</li></ul>
Reader mode
<ul><li>Mozilla Readability extracts the main content of a web page</li><li>Clean, readable view</li><li>Print directly or save as PDF</li></ul>
Image effects
<ul><li>Brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness</li><li>Black-and-white, sepia, vintage, invert</li><li>Per-slot application</li></ul>
Layer system
<ul><li>Up to 3 drawing layers</li><li>Toggle visibility per layer</li><li>Reorderable</li><li>"Bake" function for background layer</li></ul>
Sharing
<ul><li>Share annotations as a link (compressed in URL, no server)</li></ul>
Gallery
<ul><li>Side panel with all slots as large cards</li></ul>
Keyboard shortcuts
<ul><li><strong>Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y</strong> - Undo / Redo</li><li><strong>Ctrl+V</strong> - Paste image from clipboard</li><li><strong>Esc</strong> - Cancel current action</li><li><strong>P/H/E/L/A/R/O/T</strong> - Direct tool selection</li><li><strong>Shift</strong> - Axis snap (line), square (rectangle), circle (ellipse), 45-degree snap (highlighter)</li></ul>
Privacy

BroDraw sends <strong>NOTHING</strong> to the internet. No telemetry, no crash reports,
no analytics. All features - including OCR and AI - run fully locally in
your browser.

The only network connection happens when downloading the OCR language data
(Tesseract <code>tessdata</code> from <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/24262ee11c32bd55dcd259a8f8ee021d741b5a5b7a6460ae2bef36431eb8b2a1/http%3A//projectnaptha.com" rel="nofollow">projectnaptha.com</a>) on first OCR usage. The
add-on itself contacts no servers of its own.

Permissions
<ul><li><strong>activeTab</strong> - draw on the current page</li><li><strong>scripting</strong> - inject toolbar into the page</li><li><strong>clipboardWrite/Read</strong> - Ctrl+V paste + screenshot to clipboard</li><li><strong>downloads</strong> - save as PNG/JPG/PDF</li><li><strong>storage</strong> - remember tool settings (color, stroke width, etc.)</li><li><strong>&lt;all_urls&gt;</strong> - so BroDraw works on any page (including http:// and
  file:// for local PDFs)</li></ul>
License

BroDraw is open-source software under <strong>GPL-3.0-or-later</strong>.
Copyright (C) 2026 Littau Consulting.

All third-party libraries used (Tesseract.js, PDF.js, jsPDF, U²-Net,
ONNX Runtime Web, Mozilla Readability) are commercially-compatible licensed
(Apache-2.0 / MIT).

Publisher

Littau Consulting
Münsterstraße 261, 40470 Düsseldorf, Germany
E-mail: brodraw@littauconsulting.de

Known limitations
<ul><li>BroDraw cannot activate on <code>about:</code>, <code>chrome:</code> and some
  <code>moz-extension://</code> pages (browser limitation).</li><li>Screenshots via <code>tabs.captureVisibleTab</code> only capture the visible viewport
  area.</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #26,121 — Overall
- #47 — ocr
- #71 — eyedropper
- #222 — drag

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `clipboardRead`
- `downloads`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brodraw)