Browser extensions
Snipwise
Capture, annotate and export a page as PNG or PDF — without the image leaving your machine.
- Role
- Sole author — extension, editor and site
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- Live
The problem
Browser screenshot tools capture one flat image and stop. Anything past that — combining several captures, annotating them, arranging them across pages, exporting the result as a document — means moving into a separate editor, and usually uploading the material to somebody else's server first.
The approach
Snipwise puts the whole workflow inside the browser. A capture opens a real editor built around pages and layers rather than baked-in pixels, so every image stays movable, resizable and reorderable after the fact, and text and callouts remain editable objects. Capture, editing and export all run locally in the extension; nothing is uploaded.
What it does
Five ways to start
Visible area, full page with automatic scroll-and-stitch, drag-to-crop region, one-click save as PDF, or a blank workspace built from local images, drag-and-drop or paste.
Multi-page, multi-layer editor
A workspace holds several pages, each its own canvas with its own layers, annotations and undo history. Every image is a layer with independent position, size, order and opacity.
Full annotation set
Pen, arrow, line, rectangle, circle, text, callout bubble, auto-numbered step markers, highlighter, blur and redact, canvas crop and emoji stamps.
Configurable PDF export
A live-preview dialog controls page size, orientation, margins and an optional cover page. Every workspace page maps to its own PDF page.
Six permissions, each explained
The site lists the extension's manifest permissions in full, with what each one is for — a page arguing that it asks for very little has to be checkable.
Outcome
Published on the Chrome Web Store, open source under the MIT licence, and documented down to the manifest — every permission it requests is listed on its site with the reason for it.