What Hotshot does
Hotshot is an exact, on-device screenshot and element capture extension for Chrome. It understands page DOM structure, allowing you to hover over cards, charts, modals, table rows, or components to snap to their exact bounding box without fiddly manual rectangle dragging. It includes built-in annotation tools, permanent pixel redaction, floating reference pins, and direct issue filing.
Key Features
- Smart Element Snapping — Hover over any webpage element to snap to its exact borders. Use bracket keys
[and]to step between parent containers and child elements seamlessly. - Region & Full-Page Capture — Drag custom selection areas with fine-tuning handles or stitch entire scrolling pages into a single high-resolution PNG.
- Delayed & Timed Capture — Set a 3s, 5s, or 10s countdown to capture hover states, dropdown menus, tooltips, and dynamic popovers.
- True Pixel Redaction — Permanently replaces sensitive pixels in the exported image rather than applying a cosmetic blur that could be reversed.
- On-Page Annotation & Numbered Steps — Add arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, freehand annotations, text notes, highlights, and auto-incrementing step badges with full undo/redo.
- Pin Reference Overlays — Pin a capture as a floating, adjustable reference over your active page while comparing designs or transcribing data.
- Send Directly to Jira, Notion & ClickUp — Connect your own personal API tokens to file captures straight into issues, pages, or tasks with optional page context (URL, viewport size, DPR, user agent).
- Local Video & GIF Recording — Record short silent WebM demonstrations or animated GIFs rendered locally on your device.
Privacy by design
Hotshot has zero developer-operated backend servers, no analytics, no accounts, and no continuous page scraping. It uses Chrome's temporary activeTab permission only when you trigger a capture. Integration API tokens stay stored in your browser's local storage and are never synchronized over the cloud.
FAQ
Is Hotshot free? Yes — Hotshot is free on the Chrome Web Store.
Are my screenshots uploaded to a server? No. Captures, recordings, and edits are processed completely in your browser and saved to your clipboard or local disk.
How does Hotshot redaction work? Hotshot replaces the underlying bitmap pixel values before outputting the PNG, ensuring private data cannot be retrieved from blurred image layers.