Technical Reference

Desktop Apps — Windows & macOS Free

• Captures any public URL you supply — scrolls and stitches the full page automatically.
• Current release outputs: JPG (adjustable quality), PDF, and MP4 scroll recordings — pick a single format or combine JPG + MP4.
• Each run writes a timestamped session folder that includes the site hostname for easy archiving.

Desktop Capture Controls

• Scroll direction: top to bottom or bottom to top.
• Adjustable scroll step (px) — fine-tune how far the page moves each step.
• Adjustable delay per scroll step (ms) — let slow sites fully render between steps.
• Adjustable FPS for MP4 output (1–60 frames per second).
• Adjustable maximum frames for MP4 recordings.
• Adjustable JPG quality (1–100) when JPG output is selected.

Desktop Pre-Capture Loading

• Smart mode — designed to improve capture completeness on lazy-loaded websites by waiting for deferred images and components before stitching begins.

Desktop Auto-Capture Scheduling Licensed

• Optional recurring capture loop with a user-defined interval in minutes.
• Minimum interval: 1 minute for JPG/PDF; 3 minutes for MP4 or JPG+MP4.
• Auto-capture is license-gated — available to licensed users only.

Desktop Progress, Logs & Run Control

• Real-time progress events and logs displayed in the UI while capture runs.
• Start/stop controls with full cancellation support mid-capture.
• Input validation with user-facing guidance and clear error prompts.
• Result reporting includes output file paths (JPG / MP4 / PDF) and success/failure status.

Chrome Extension Free

• Operates on the active tab: visible viewport, stitched full page, or a desktop picker workflow (automations fall back to the visible tab when required).
• Raster exports are PNG; documents export as PDF.
• Manual captures from the popup plus a configurable keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Y by default).
• Optional auto-capture on a minute-based cadence (Chrome alarms; one minute minimum).
• Optional "Save As" prompt before each file lands in Downloads/auto-screen-shooter/.
• Filename templates with tokens such as {yyyy}, {host}, {title}, presets, and quick-insert helpers.
• Site rules: block lists, allow-only lists, and per-rule toggles without deleting definitions.
• Capture history inside the popup — export to JSON, clear, configurable retention (5–150 entries).
• Popup sizing guardrails (~576×720 default; width 400–900 px; height 320–920 px) so the toolbar UI never collapses to an unusable strip.

Licensing & Watermark Behavior

• License activation and deactivation via a remote licensing API.
• Local preference storage includes license status, customer name, activation date, and device fingerprint.
• Unlicensed — desktop exports apply branding watermark strips to JPG, PDF, and MP4 files; extension exports watermark PNG and PDF outputs.
• Licensed — newly generated captures skip all watermarks. One-time payment from $29.99 for two seats, no subscription.

Internationalization — 20 Languages

UI language support includes:

Appearance & Theme Preferences

Choose from 7 built-in theme modes to match your workspace: