FullPage Capture vs GoFullPage

GoFullPage is the extension most people already have, and on an ordinary page it does the job. So instead of arguing, we installed both in the same browser and captured the same pages with each, one after the other. Where the two files came out the same we say so. Where they did not, the difference is below, with the files, along with what FullPage Capture gives you free that GoFullPage sells as Premium.

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

Same page, same browser, two files

First the fair part. We opened the React documentation, ran GoFullPage, then FullPage Capture, and put the two files next to each other. They are the same picture: both keep the sticky header and the sidebar once, both get every code block. If all you ever capture is a documentation page or an article, you would not tell them apart, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The same went for framer.com, for a page that scrolls inside its body and for a sticky header inside a frame: matching files, so they are not shown here.

A PDF open in Chrome

Now open a PDF in a tab and try again. GoFullPage's own FAQ warns that it “is unable to access the PDF document”, and that is what happens: you get one screen of Chrome's viewer, the first page half shown, thumbnails and all. FullPage Capture reads the file itself and renders every page into one image. We used a 15-page paper from arXiv; the whole thing came out as one 56,144-pixel-tall capture, saved in two parts.

A chat window with a message box pinned to the bottom

This one is closer to what people actually capture: a support chat, a Slack thread, a comment feed. The page scrolls, and a message box stays fixed at the bottom. GoFullPage photographs each screen with the box in it, so the box turns up five times down the image and covers a message each time. FullPage Capture keeps it once, at the bottom, where it was. This is a test page we built to behave like a chat app, because a real one would need someone's account in the picture; both extensions were run on it in the same browser.

A page with a frame that scrolls on its own

Template galleries, embedded documents, previews of a landing page inside another page: the page scrolls, and somewhere in it sits a frame with its own scrollbar and a lot more content than shows. GoFullPage captures the frame's first screen and moves on, so the frame ends at section 10 with the rest missing. FullPage Capture notices the frame scrolls, unrolls it in place, and only then carries on down the page. Again a test page of ours, built after a real template site that behaved exactly like this.

What you get here that GoFullPage charges for, or does not have

FullPage Capture is a free full page screenshot extension for Chrome and Edge, and it does not hold the useful parts back for a paid tier.

• Free where GoFullPage charges. Smart PDF page breaks that never cut a line, the URL and date stamp in five styles, and an editor you can use are free here. In GoFullPage the same three cost Premium, $12 a year (the site also says $1.00 a month).
• Things GoFullPage does not do at all: a searchable capture history in the browser, capture of PDF files opened in Chrome (GoFullPage's own FAQ says it “is unable to access the PDF document”), an evidence band with a SHA-256 checksum anyone can verify, batch capture of a URL list, and upload to your own Google Drive.
• Less to prepare before you click. GoFullPage's FAQ asks you to close pop-ups, scroll the whole page and load all content before capturing, and warns that “some pages out there on the web do not capture properly”. FullPage Capture scrolls the page itself, waits for images and handles the inner panels for you.
• Zero network requests. Both listings declare no data collection; only FullPage Capture never opens a connection, so a capture cannot leave the machine.
• 32 languages against 5, and the same one-click flow: Alt+Shift+K, a result tab, PNG, JPEG or PDF.

Install FullPage Capture free and try it on this page. No account, no watermark, nothing uploaded.

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Where the capture itself is different

The chat page above is one case of a general thing: the two extensions take the picture differently. GoFullPage photographs the page as it scrolls, screen after screen. FullPage Capture first works out what is on the page, what is fixed, what scrolls inside what, what has not loaded yet, and then captures. That is what these come down to:

• 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

GoFullPage runs in Firefox as well as Chrome and Edge; FullPage Capture is for Chrome, Edge and the other Chromium browsers. GoFullPage asks for no extra permissions at install; FullPage Capture asks for site access so that embedded frames and PDF files capture without a prompt each time, reads nothing from pages you are not capturing, and makes no network requests at all. GoFullPage is 869 KiB against 2.46 MiB, the difference being the editor and the PDF engine, and it has been in the store since 2012, which is where its 11,000,000 users come from; FullPage Capture's 100,000+ users rate it 4.8 and it carries the same Featured badge.

Questions

Try it next to GoFullPage. The two do not interfere with each other, so you can run both on your own pages and keep whichever file is better.

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