# Explain and Send Screenshots

> Capture or record a video of your screen, write text or arrows and share it. The safest extension with NO crazy permissions!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/explain-and-send-screenshots](https://chrome-stats.com/d/explain-and-send-screenshots)

## Overview

- **ID:** `explain-and-send-screenshots`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jason Savard
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 644
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 3.94 / 5 (33 ratings)
- **Version:** 19.0.11
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-09
- **First published:** 2016-08-05
- **Size:** 388 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/explain-and-send-screenshots/)
- **Website:** [https://jasonsavard.com/forum/categories/explain-and-send-screenshots](https://jasonsavard.com/forum/categories/explain-and-send-screenshots)

## Description

Explain & Send Screenshots provides a quick, clean interface to capture screenshots or record your screen, then annotate with arrows, shapes, blur, crop, and text before sharing or saving.

It emphasizes privacy, with no invasive permissions, locally performs AI background removal, supports Google Drive saving, right-click captures, and keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

## Rankings

- #4,302 — Overall
- #13 — screenshots
- #27 — greenshot
- #29 — screenshot to pdf
- #39 — arrow
- #45 — screenshot

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `scripting`
- `alarms`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciate the add-on for being free, easy to use, and feature-rich with editing tools and direct image uploading. However, multiple reviewers raise concerns about the required broad permissions on Firefox that affect trust, functionality issues including incomplete full-page captures especially with overlays, and inconsistencies compared to the Chrome version. Some note watermark limitations and lack of icon customization. Overall, it is a useful tool but has notable drawbacks that affect usability and security perceptions.

### Pros

- Free and easy to use with a user-friendly interface
- Provides options to edit and annotate screenshots, combining multiple features in one add-on
- Offers direct links to uploaded images without unnecessary banners
- Compatible with some Firefox variants like Waterfox Classic
- Frequently updated and actively used by users

### Cons

- Requires broad web access permissions on Firefox raising security concerns
- Limited or ineffective full-page screenshot capability, especially with overlays
- Inconsistent functionality on Firefox compared to Chrome, such as failure to copy links to clipboard or capture selected areas
- Some users report watermarking or paywall limitations making images unusable
- Icon customization is not supported

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/explain-and-send-screenshots)