GoFullPage vs Hoverify: screenshot tools compared
GoFullPage does one thing for eleven million people and does it very well. Hoverify's Capture does four kinds of screenshot inside a broader developer toolkit. Which one you want depends on what happens after the capture. We make Hoverify, so weigh what follows accordingly.
Where each tool wins
This one isn't close on popularity and isn't close on scope, in opposite directions. That actually makes the choice easier.
Use GoFullPage if
Full-page captures are the job and nothing else. Eleven million users and a 4.9 rating from around 84,000 reviews, as of July 2026, say the core feature works, and the free tier has no capture limit. For documentation workflows, Premium's smart PDF splitting is a real edge.
Pick Hoverify if
You capture pieces of pages as often as whole ones. A dragged-out region or a single clicked element lands straight in an editor built for sharing: backgrounds, borders, arrows and blur, exported as PNG, JPEG or WEBP, or as a PDF of the whole capture. And when the screenshot is evidence of a bug, the inspector that finds the bug is behind the same icon.
GoFullPage vs Hoverify compared
Rows marked Premium refer to GoFullPage's $12/year plan.
| Feature | GoFullPage | Hoverify |
|---|---|---|
| Capture modes | Full page (Chrome); full page or visible area on Firefox | Visible Area, Full Page, Select Area, Select Element |
| Price | Free; Premium $12/year | $30/year or $89 lifetime |
| Capture a region | Crop after capture, in the Premium editor | Drag it out before capturing |
| Capture one element | No | One click, sized to the element |
| Annotations | Premium: text, shapes, emojis, blur | Arrows, shapes, text, blur and image overlays |
| Backgrounds and framing | No | Backgrounds, gradients, shadows, borders |
| Watermarks | URL and date stamps (Premium) | Your own logo or text |
| Smart PDF splitting | Premium | No |
| Export formats | PNG, JPG, PDF | PNG, JPEG, WEBP, PDF |
| Firefox | Official add-on, new in 2026 | Yes, all tools included |
| GEO audit for AI search | No | Scores a page for AI crawlers across 16 weighted categories |
| Beyond screenshots | No | Eight more, from an inspector to an SEO checker |
GoFullPage facts checked against its Chrome Web Store listing, its Firefox add-on listing and gofullpage.com on 8 Aug 2026. On 10 Aug 2026 its Chrome Web Store listing was taken down over a copyright dispute; the developer says the extension still works on Edge and is working with Google to restore it. Check the store before you rely on it, and tell hello@tryhoverify.com if anything else here has gone stale.
Four capture modes against one very good one
The mode list is the practical difference between these tools, so it's worth spelling out what each mode is for.
GoFullPage scrolls the page and stitches one continuous image. When that's what you need, its version of it is the most battle-tested on the market, and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise. What its Chrome extension doesn't have is a way to capture less than everything: no visible-area mode, no dragged region, no element capture. A region means cropping the full capture afterwards, in the paid editor.
Hoverify treats "less than everything" as the common case. Visible Area grabs what's on screen, Select Area takes the rectangle you drag, and Select Element reads the element's own box so a card, a nav bar or a hero section comes out cleanly without cropping. Full Page is there too, feeding the same editor as the other three.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Capture the element you mean
Click the piece of the page you mean, dress it up in the editor and export it in the format the thread needs. The other eight tools are behind the same icon.
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