Privacy policy
Last updated: 11 November 2026 · Version 1.0.0 · Publisher: isabilov.
Short version: Screenshot Maker itself sends no data anywhere and has no servers. Your screenshots are made and edited in your browser. Your last 8 captures stay inside the extension on this device (as captured, without your edits); everything else is saved only where you download it. The only time anything goes out is when you click one of the two links in the editor footer, which open a website in a new tab.
What Screenshot Maker reads
Only on the tab where you start a capture (toolbar popup or keyboard shortcut), and only while the capture runs:
- What is on screen. Screenshots are taken with Chrome's own "capture visible tab" function, one screen at a time. For a full page, a tall element, a scrolling area or the device sizes, Screenshot Maker scrolls the page and joins the screens into one image.
- Page layout. Page and window size, scroll position, which areas scroll, which elements are fixed or sticky (so they appear once), and whether images have loaded. Nothing about the page's text, forms, cookies or accounts is read or kept.
- The page address and title. Shown in the editor, used for the file name and, only if you turn it on in Beautify, for the browser frame and the "URL and date" stamp on the image.
While it captures, Screenshot Maker temporarily changes the page on your screen: it scrolls, switches lazy-loading images to load, shows sticky elements in their normal place, hides fixed elements after the first screen, and for Capture on devices zooms the tab (only that tab) to each width. When the capture ends or stops, the scroll position, the zoom and every style and attribute it changed are put back. Images and content that the website loaded during the capture stay loaded: scrolling makes the website load them the same way it would if you scrolled yourself (these are the website's own network requests, not Screenshot Maker's). If the page reloads or you navigate during a capture, the capture stops and nothing is saved.
What Screenshot Maker saves (on your device only)
| Data | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your last 8 captures (images + page address, title, capture time, notes) | The extension's own IndexedDB (not the website's storage) | So the editor tab can open them and reload them. When a 9th capture is made, the oldest is deleted. |
| 1x/2x choice, device widths | chrome.storage.local | Remembered for the next capture. |
| Editor settings (tool colors and sizes, Beautify style, format) | The editor's local storage | Remembered for the next capture. |
| A capture's error message, for a few minutes | chrome.storage.session (cleared when Chrome closes) | So the popup can tell you why a shortcut capture didn't work. |
Stored captures are the original screenshots: annotations and redactions you add in the editor are applied to the files you download or copy, not to the stored copy. Images leave this storage only when you download them (PNG, JPG or PDF to your Downloads folder) or copy them to the clipboard. Screenshot Maker has no servers, no analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no watermark and no remote code. Screenshots are never uploaded.
Links in the editor
- Report a bug opens a Google Form in a new tab. The link contains only the extension name ("Screenshot Maker") and its version (for example "1.0.0") so the form is filled in for you; opening it sends those two values to Google as part of the address. It never contains the page you captured or anything from it. Whatever you type into the form is sent to Google only when you press Submit. Google Forms is run by Google under Google's privacy policy; the answers are read only by the publisher to fix bugs.
- by isabilov. opens isabilov.com.
Like any link, opening these pages lets those websites see the usual browser information (for example your IP address).
When Screenshot Maker runs
Only when you choose a capture in its popup, press one of its keyboard shortcuts, or press Retake in its editor. It cannot run on Chrome's own pages, the Chrome Web Store or other extensions' pages. On local files it runs only if you turn on "Allow access to file URLs".
Permissions
- activeTab — temporary access to the current tab, only after you open the popup or press a shortcut. Needed to take the screenshot.
- scripting — measure the page, scroll it, load lazy images, hide repeating headers, and show the area/element picker on that tab.
- downloads — save PNG, JPG and PDF files with clear names.
- storage — remember your 1x/2x and device-width choices.
Screenshot Maker does not use the debugger permission and does not ask for access to all websites.
Deleting your data
Captures are deleted automatically: only the 8 newest are kept. Removing the extension makes Chrome delete everything Screenshot Maker stored. Files you downloaded are yours and stay in your Downloads folder.