# Web Paint

> Draw shapes, lines, and add text to live web pages and take screenshot.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-paint`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gabriel T. Stuart
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 3,439
- **Weekly downloads:** 68
- **Rating:** 3.56 / 5 (80 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.7resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2014-10-31
- **Size:** 115 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-paint/)

## Description

Web Paint is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by allowing you to draw directly on live web pages. With a variety of tools including pencil, text, line, curves, polygons, ellipses, rectangles, and more, you can easily annotate pages with custom colors, line widths, and transparency levels.

Additional features like the eyedropper tool help you pick colors from the page or your drawings, while the eraser lets you remove unwanted annotations. The cursor tool enables smooth interaction with web content, and the screenshot tool allows you to capture your annotated pages effortlessly. Activate the extension by clicking its icon on your browser's toolbar to start customizing any web page instantly.

## Rankings

- #1,509 — Overall
- #139 — Games & Entertainment
- #257 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #8 — shape
- #20 — eyedropper
- #21 — web

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users like Web Paint as a simple, effective on‑page annotation tool (popular for teaching). Repeated complaints are that it’s outdated, suffers from lag/jank and occasional crashes, has tablet/pen alignment problems, and lacks keyboard shortcuts. Overall useful but in need of updates and bug fixes.

### Pros

- Useful and effective for on‑page drawing/annotation—many users praise it for lectures and quick highlights.
- Simple and easy to use—several reviewers call it a great or best add‑on for this purpose.
- Drawings generally persist relative to the page (stay in place while interacting/scrolling), which users appreciate.

### Cons

- Outdated / unmaintained — multiple reviewers say it needs an update (last update years ago).
- Performance issues: laggy, janky rendering and occasional crashes reported by several users.
- Tablet/pen problems: Wacom/tablet compatibility and pen‑to‑ink misalignment reported in multiple reviews.
- Missing convenient keyboard shortcuts (users request accelerators to hide/clear ink).

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