FullPage Capture vs FireShot

FireShot has been around since 2008 and its feature list is the longest in the category, with the useful half behind Pro. We wanted to know what the free version actually hands you, so we installed it next to FullPage Capture and captured the same pages with both. On short pages the files match. On anything long, FireShot stops at 8,192 pixels and suggests Pro. The rest of the differences are the usual ones between a tool that does everything and one that does the whole page.

Updated September 28, 2026By the FullPage Capture team, the people who build the extension

Where FireShot stops

Take a long page, say the Wikipedia article on Google Chrome, and press FireShot's “Capture entire page”. What comes back is the top of the article and a green notice: “Only a small part of this page can be saved due to browser limitations. You can use FireShot Pro to save the entire page to PDF.” The file is 8,192 pixels tall. The article is 83,602. FullPage Capture captured the whole thing, in three parts because Chrome cannot hold it as one image, and the editor stitches those back together.

It is not only encyclopaedia articles. A GitHub repository page with its README is 10,242 pixels tall at 2x, which is every Mac and most laptops. FireShot's file ends in the middle of the README, after “Related Projects”; the licence, the footer and everything in between are not in it, and this time there was no notice.

On pages under that height the two files were mostly the same picture: a short Wikipedia article and a settings page with a fixed sidebar came out identical. One small thing did differ. On a page with a subscription bar that slides in as you scroll, FireShot pasted the bar into the middle of the page, between the second and third band, where it happened to be when that screen was photographed. FullPage Capture put it at the bottom, where it sat when the page ended.

What you get here that FireShot sells as Pro

FullPage Capture is a free full page screen capture extension for Chrome and Edge, and the hard cases are in the free version.

• The hard pages are free here and Pro there. FireShot's own comparison table puts “capturing page elements and scrolling areas”, “advanced entire page captures (handling floating elements)” and “frames, iframes and scrolling divs” in Pro. FullPage Capture does all of that in the free version, on every capture.
• No advertisements, no one-week history. FireShot's table lists advertisements and a history limited to the last week for the free versions. FullPage Capture has no ads and keeps every capture until you delete it.
• PDFs that break between lines, in Letter, Legal, A4 or one long page, with clickable links, free; Pro adds the page's own text as a searchable layer, the feature FireShot sells in Pro.
• Zero network requests. FireShot uploads only when you ask; FullPage Capture never opens a connection at all.
• An evidence band with a SHA-256 checksum anyone can verify at /verify/. FireShot stamps the URL and title and has no checksum.
• A fifth of the size (2.46 MiB against 12.0 MiB) and nothing to configure before the first capture.

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Where the capture itself is different

Height is the visible difference; the rest is in how the picture is taken. FireShot photographs the page as it scrolls. FullPage Capture first works out what is fixed, what scrolls inside what and what has not loaded yet, then captures. In practice:

• Apps that scroll inside a panel. Gmail, Notion, Trello, Jira, dashboards: FullPage Capture finds the element that really scrolls, captures the whole window once and then unrolls only that panel, so the result is the app, complete.
• Sticky headers, cookie bars and chat bubbles once. Photographed at the top, then hidden while the rest scrolls past, instead of repeating on every screen or covering the text.
• Images that load on scroll are waited for, screen by screen, so nothing comes out grey; a slow page can be given more time in the options.
• Embedded frames and PDF files. A document viewer inside the page is captured on its own, and a PDF opened in Chrome is rendered page by page into one image.
• Very long pages do not fail silently. Beyond Chrome's canvas limit the capture is saved as numbered parts, and the editor puts them back together whenever the whole still fits.
• Dark pages stay dark, on their own background, not on white.
• Retina and high-DPI captures keep the full pixel density, so text stays sharp when zoomed.

Side by side

What else is different

FireShot also captures the visible part or a selected area, saves GIF and BMP, uploads to Twitter, Flickr, ImageShack, FTP and OneNote, captures all open tabs (visible part only in the free versions, whole pages in Pro), ships a Windows application in Pro and runs in Firefox. FullPage Capture captures the whole page and you crop to exact pixel sizes in the editor; it saves PNG, JPEG and PDF; it uploads only to your own Google Drive (Pro); its batch capture takes a list of up to 200 URLs, whole pages, as files or one PDF (Pro); and it is for Chromium browsers.

Questions

Try it next to FireShot. The two do not interfere with each other; capture your longest page with both and compare the files.

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