Capture a region of a Chrome tab as an image or a video, annotate it, export to PNG/WebM/MP4/GIF.
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3
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Version
0.4.0
updated 11 Oct 2026
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monthly, 1 months
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About Gotcha
Step 1, step 2, gotcha.
Gotcha frames a region of any browser tab, as an image or a video, lets
you annotate it, and hands you a file you can paste anywhere: a help
page, a ticket, a release note, a support reply.
Nothing is uploaded. No account is created. The extension declares no
host permission, so Chrome shows no "read and change all your data on
all sites" warning when you install it. The overlay is injected only
after you press the shortcut, and the access ends with the tab.
FOR PRODUCT OWNERS WRITING DOCS
Number the walkthrough on the screen itself: badge 1 on the field, 2 on
the dropdown, 3 on the button, and the reader stops asking where to
click. Add an arrow, a box, a label. Blur the customer's name before the
picture leaves your organisation. Then paste. When the next release
changes the screen, you take the shot again in the same place, not in a
drawing tool.
FOR TESTERS
Frame what just broke, circle it, paste it in the ticket. Ctrl+C copies
the region without even opening the editor, and the frame stays put for
the next shot. Delay the capture by 3, 5 or 10 seconds when the bug
lives in a menu that closes as soon as you move the mouse. Record a
video when the subject moves.
WHAT IT DOES
• Drag a frame on any page, with the mouse or with a finger on a touch
screen. Ctrl+A frames the whole visible screen.
• Image or video, chosen in the bar under the frame: it is the only
moment you know whether the subject moves.
• Annotate: arrows, boxes, ellipses, numbered steps, freehand, text.
• Blur what must not leave. The blur is destructive: the pixels are
gone from the file you send, not covered up in it.
• Pick any colour of the page with the eyedropper and get its hex code.
• Copy to the clipboard, or save as PNG, JPG, MP4, WebM or GIF.
• A library keeps your captures on your machine and purges them on the
schedule you choose.
BUILT WITH A FEW OPINIONS
• Recording controls sit outside the recorded rectangle and are cropped
away by the export, because tab capture films everything on the page.
• A click halo marks every click in a recording. No screen capture
shows where you clicked, not even where the pointer itself is filmed.
• The button says Save, never Download: your screenshot never made a
round trip through anybody's server, and the wording will not suggest
it did.
FOR AI AGENTS
The same annotation engine runs on the command line, addressed by CSS
selector, so the agent that just built a screen can document it without
ever seeing it:
npm install -g @saastisfaction/gotcha
gotcha shot --selector "#invoices" --step ".btn-new" \
--step ".btn-save" --blur ".customer-email" --out doc/01.png
ENGLISH AND FRENCH
The interface follows the language of Chrome, or either language on
demand. Many French speakers work in an English Chrome.
PRICE
Image capture, annotation and export are free and unlimited, and will
stay that way. Recording, heavy command-line use and screenshots behind
a login are metered; see saastisfaction.com for what a licence costs.
Work published with the captures carries a "Made with Gotcha" credit
linking to the site — a condition of the terms, free or licensed.