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!
What is Explain and Send Screenshots?
"Explain and Send Screenshots" is a Chrome extension enabling users to quickly take screenshots or record screen videos, annotate them with text, arrows, circles, etc, and share instantly. It stands out for not demanding dangerous permissions thus ensures user data safety. It supports 'Save to Google Drive', allows assigning shortcut keys, offers a right-click context menu for immediate captures, and even provides extra features with contributions. Perfect tool for secure, quick, and easy screen captures and shares.

Extension stats

Users: 100,000+
Version: 15.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-08-28)
Creation date: 2020-06-30
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
  • scripting
  • system.display
  • alarms
  • offscreen
Size: 689.15K

Other platforms

Explain and Send Screenshots (v13.3)
3.94 (33) 759
Explain and Send Screenshots (v15.1.2)
4.20 (19) 50,069+
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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

• Quick and clean interface • Take screenshots, draw arrows, circles, blur, crop and more. • Record a video of your screen and speak into the mic. • Much safer than the rest. NO permissions required! Try installing other screenshot extensions and read their install permissions ...they are crazy! Every other extension has this permission: "Read and change ALL YOUR DATA on the websites you visit." Google says they can request or modify data from sites like your bank account or Facebook etc. Refer to: https://goo.gl/EYndEt As an experienced developer I have introduced the same functions with no permissions required to make your experience safer. • Extra features are available upon contributing "any" amount. • Supports "Save to Google Drive" • Right click context menu for quick screen captures • Assign shortcut keys, details here: http://goo.gl/OZXCc8

Take a full or partial snapshot of any website or even upload an image into the cloud that you'd like to share or send to someone. You can draw arrows, lines, circles to point out things or even move, erase or delete selections and even annotate the snapshot by placing text right on the image.

Then you can copy the image to the clipboard and paste it into your email or download the image onto your desktop. You can also get a direct link to the image and share it on Facebook or Twitter with direct links to the image.

Changelog: https://jasonsavard.com/wiki/Explain_and_Send_Screenshots_changelog

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • User-friendly and handy functionality
  • Good privacy features - no privacy-invading permissions
  • High-quality audio recording compared to competitors
  • Effective for articulating issues and bugs to developers
  • Multiple devices support for the paid version
Cons
  • Watermarks in the free version
  • Videos can only be saved in WEBM format, requiring re-encoding for editing
  • Some users report functionality issues or errors on certain websites
  • Version updates have led to a decrease in performance for some users
Most mentioned
  • Watermark removal
  • Functionality for video recording and screenshots
  • Desire for additional features such as keyboard shortcuts
  • Issues after updates or with certain sites
Recent reviews
Exactly what I was looking for - a dead simple way to take a screenshot and then circle something on it. Thank you!
by Cara Ernest, 2024-11-21

Nice
by Breno NS, 2024-11-14

Excellent. I paid for a recurring monthly license to keep my cost low on the entire suite from Jason Savard. NICE!
by Marc Bradley, 2024-10-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Explain and Send Screenshots requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Explain and Send Screenshots has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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