Clipshot

Tracking since Apr 23, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 28, 2026
  description

  Clipshot is a clipboard for screenshots - built for people who feed images into AI, chat, and design tools all day.
  
  See a layout you want to recreate? A component worth dissecting? A hero section your team should reference? Capture it, stack it, and paste it into any input that accepts images - in a single motion. No Downloads folder detour, no renaming, no cleanup.
  
  WHY CLIPSHOT?
  The default screenshot flow is friction. Chrome drops a PNG in Downloads, you tab to Finder, drag it into the AI composer, then come back later to delete the file you never wanted saved. Clipshot replaces that loop with a local in-extension library: capture, glance, paste.
  
  For designers, engineers, and anyone using AI to move faster:
  • Feed real UI references into your AI chat of choice to generate layout, component, or styling code.
  • Build visual mood boards from live sites without saving anything to disk.
  • Compare responsive variants of a page side-by-side for design reviews.
  • Drop annotated screenshots into Slack, Linear, or Gmail for faster review cycles.
  
  CAPTURE
  • Visible page - one click grabs whatever's on screen.
  • Whole website - full-length page capture in one clean image. Uses Chrome's compositor so sticky headers don't repeat and long landing pages capture end-to-end.
  • Specific region - drag to select any component, crop before it's saved. Perfect for isolating a card, modal, nav bar, or hero section.
  
  RESPONSIVE VIEWPORTS
  Capture any page as Desktop (1440×900), Tablet (820×1180), or Mobile (390×844). Pick multiple chips and Clipshot produces one screenshot per viewport in a single pass - useful for responsive QA, design reviews, and showing an AI "here's the mobile layout I want."
  
  LIBRARY
  Every capture lands in a local library grouped by Today, Yesterday, This week, This month, and Earlier. Masonry grid. Multi-select with per-group "select all." Bulk delete. Per-shot edit (crop, blur sensitive text, draw an arrow to point at something).
  
  PASTE ANYWHERE
  Select one or several screenshots, focus any input on any tab, and hit Paste. Clipshot delivers files using a three-tier strategy so it works on editors that only accept one flavor:
    1. Synthetic paste event on the focused field.
    2. Drag-and-drop sequence on the composer's drop zone.
    3. Direct assignment to the page's file input.
  
  Works on any input that accepts image uploads - most AI chats, messaging apps, email, and design tools included.
  
  *A handful of composers use non-standard paste handling and may not work yet. If a site doesn't accept the paste, the screenshot is still one drag away from your library.
  
  DESIGNED FOR AI-ASSISTED WORKFLOWS
  Modern AI tools read images brilliantly. Clipshot makes "show, don't tell" the default:
  • Prompt an AI with three viewport variants to generate a responsive component.
  • Paste a competitor's checkout flow into your AI of choice and ask for the UX critique.
  • Drop a hero section into a design tool or code generator and say "build this in Tailwind."
  • Stack multiple references into one prompt to blend styles and patterns.
  
  PRIVACY
  Clipshot runs entirely inside your browser. Your screenshots never leave your device. No server, no analytics, no tracking. The library is stored in Chrome's local extension storage and is yours alone.
  
  PERMISSIONS
  Clipshot asks for exactly the permissions it needs:
  • activeTab / tabs - capture the active tab and target the right tab when pasting.
  • scripting - inject the region selector, paste bridge, and editor on user action.
  • storage + unlimitedStorage - save screenshots locally (PNGs are big).
  • debugger - required for full-page capture and tablet/mobile viewport emulation. Chrome shows a yellow "started debugging" banner during capture; Clipshot detaches immediately after and transmits nothing.
  • host access - works on any site you choose to capture or paste into.
  
  LIMITATIONS 
  • Some chrome:// pages, the Web Store itself, and other extension pages cannot be captured - Chromium forbids content-script injection there.
  • Full-page captures momentarily show a Chrome debugger banner; this is standard for any extension that captures beyond the viewport.
  
  Made for designers, engineers, researchers, and anyone who pastes a lot of screenshots.

  Clipshot is a clipboard for screenshots - built for people who feed images into AI, chat, and design tools all day.
  
  See a layout you want to recreate? A component worth dissecting? A hero section your team should reference? Capture it, stack it, and paste it into any input that accepts images - in a single motion. No Downloads folder detour, no renaming, no cleanup.
  
  WHY CLIPSHOT?
  The default screenshot flow is friction. Chrome drops a PNG in Downloads, you tab to Finder, drag it into the AI composer, then come back later to delete the file you never wanted saved. Clipshot replaces that loop with a local in-extension library: capture, glance, paste.
  
  For designers, engineers, and anyone using AI to move faster:
  • Feed real UI references into your AI chat of choice to generate layout, component, or styling code.
  • Build visual mood boards from live sites without saving anything to disk.
  • Compare responsive variants of a page side-by-side for design reviews.
  • Drop annotated screenshots into Slack, Linear, or Gmail for faster review cycles.
  
  CAPTURE
  • Visible page - one click grabs whatever's on screen.
  • Whole website - full-length page capture in one clean image. Uses Chrome's compositor so sticky headers don't repeat and long landing pages capture end-to-end.
  • Specific region - drag to select any component, crop before it's saved. Perfect for isolating a card, modal, nav bar, or hero section.
  
  RESPONSIVE VIEWPORTS
  Capture any page as Desktop (1440×900), Tablet (820×1180), or Mobile (390×844). Pick multiple chips and Clipshot produces one screenshot per viewport in a single pass - useful for responsive QA, design reviews, and showing an AI "here's the mobile layout I want."
  
  LIBRARY
  Every capture lands in a local library grouped by Today, Yesterday, This week, This month, and Earlier. Masonry grid. Multi-select with per-group "select all." Bulk delete. Per-shot edit (crop, blur sensitive text, draw an arrow to point at something).
  
  EDITOR
  Every capture and saved image opens in a full-tab editor — no separate app, no file export. Seven tools on the left rail:
  • Crop - rule-of-thirds guides, eight drag handles, live dimension readout.
  • Rectangle, Arrow, Freehand - three stroke widths (thin / medium / thick) in seven colors (coral, red, green, blue, yellow, ink, white).
  • Highlight - multiply-blend marker for underlining text or calling out regions.
  • Text - inline WYSIWYG entry in three sizes (S / M / L) with WYSIWYG color matching.
  • Blur - pixel-preserving redaction for emails, names, tokens, or anything else you don't want to ship.
  
  Beyond tools: resize output with aspect lock, copy the edited result straight to the system clipboard, unlimited undo/redo, and single-key shortcuts for every tool (C · R · A · F · H · T · B). ⌘S saves back to your library; ⌘C copies to the clipboard; ⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z walk the history.
  
  PASTE ANYWHERE
  Select one or several screenshots, focus any input on any tab, and hit Paste. Clipshot delivers files using a three-tier strategy so it works on editors that only accept one flavor:
    1. Synthetic paste event on the focused field.
    2. Drag-and-drop sequence on the composer's drop zone.
    3. Direct assignment to the page's file input.
  
  Works on any input that accepts image uploads - most AI chats, messaging apps, email, and design tools included.
  
  *A handful of composers use non-standard paste handling and may not work yet. If a site doesn't accept the paste, the screenshot is still one drag away from your library.
  
  DESIGNED FOR AI-ASSISTED WORKFLOWS
  Modern AI tools read images brilliantly. Clipshot makes "show, don't tell" the default:
  • Prompt an AI with three viewport variants to generate a responsive component.
  • Paste a competitor's checkout flow into your AI of choice and ask for the UX critique.
  • Drop a hero section into a design tool or code generator and say "build this in Tailwind."
  • Stack multiple references into one prompt to blend styles and patterns.
  
  PRIVACY
  Clipshot runs entirely inside your browser. Your screenshots never leave your device. No server, no analytics, no tracking. The library is stored in Chrome's local extension storage and is yours alone.
  
  PERMISSIONS
  Clipshot asks for exactly the permissions it needs:
  • activeTab / tabs - capture the active tab and target the right tab when pasting.
  • scripting - inject the region selector, paste bridge, and editor on user action.
  • storage + unlimitedStorage - save screenshots locally (PNGs are big).
  • debugger - required for full-page capture and tablet/mobile viewport emulation. Chrome shows a yellow "started debugging" banner during capture; Clipshot detaches immediately after and transmits nothing.
  • host access - works on any site you choose to capture or paste into.
  
  LIMITATIONS 
  • Some chrome:// pages, the Web Store itself, and other extension pages cannot be captured - Chromium forbids content-script injection there.
  • Full-page captures momentarily show a Chrome debugger banner; this is standard for any extension that captures beyond the viewport.
  
  Made for designers, engineers, researchers, and anyone who pastes a lot of screenshots.

• Apr 28, 2026
  permissions

  activeTab, tabs, scripting, storage, unlimitedStorage, debugger

  activeTab, tabs, scripting, storage, unlimitedStorage, debugger, contextMenus

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activeTabtabsscriptingstorageunlimitedStoragedebuggercontextMenus

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