Compare Awesome Screenshot vs Screenshotlayer

Summary

Awesome Screenshot is an easy-to-use screen capturing tool. The software enables users to capture snaps or record the screen within a few clicks and share that directly with anyone. The captured files are uploaded on the software’s cloud server. Anyone can access the uploaded files with the respective shareable links. Users can also add annotations such as texts, colors, blur effects to the screenshots and even share them on social media platforms. Awesome Screenshot comes as a Chrome extension that makes website capturing an easier task. For working professionals, the software enables them to add feedback for the clients and teammates in Google Drive, Slack, etc. It also provides an unlimited online storage facility for screenshots, allows one to create unlimited projects and enables unlimited video recording when used on Desktops or Tabs. With a simple user interface and the availability of a host of screen capturing features, Awesome Screenshot has managed to get more than 2,000,000 users and has received an average rating of 4.6 stars on the Google Chrome webstore. ..show more

Screenshotlayer is a screenshot API that can be used by any application which captures highly customizable snapshots of any website. The software provides advanced export options by which it uploads the screenshots of users to the AWS S3 Bucket or to a user-defined FTP path. The snapshots are returned as compact image URLs allowing users to integrate anywhere and in any way. One just needs to make a simple request using the URL structure and leave the rest to the Screenshotlayer API. Furthermore, there are scores of advanced options that set the preferred thumbnail dimensions and viewport allowing users to capture the height of the website and generate screenshots for different devices respectively. One can also set a customized placeholder image until the snapshot remains available or modify the target website by injecting a CSS stylesheet or force a refresh through the software's API. Users can convert URL to screenshot easily and the screenshot rendering engine renders HTML5, CSS3, etc. Besides these, the software also provides interactive documentation and provides extensive usage statistics. ..show more

3D Transforms It allows you to edit and transform your captured screenshots into 3d figures.

Annotation and Markup Tools Aides to highlight and comment with freehand drawing tools

Automated Screenshot Captures a screenshot of your website or web page automatically on a routine basis

CSS Flexbox It allows all the elements present in a document to be automatically arranged depending on screen size.

Custom Geo Location Simulates the App access from pre-defined geo-locations or latitude and longitude coordinates

Delayed Capture Allows to set a delay time of a few seconds before capturing a screenshot

Flash Support Can render flash embedded pages to take screenshots

Full Page Screen Capture It allows you to capture an entire web page or website instead of only a selected region

Hide Scrollbar Auto-hide the mouse arrow or scrollbar or removes any unwanted elements

Lazy Loading Helps in loading the required web page instead of a bulk loading or various web pages.

Real-time Image Resize Allows to resize the image instantly after capturing and without distorting.

Responsive Screen Capture Allows taking responsive screenshots of a web page in different screen resolutions with a click a button

Selective Screen Capture Allows to capture screenshot of selected area on a webpage

Share Screenshot Facility to upload or share captured screenshots on social media or email attachments.

Storage Management Systematically stores and organizes all your documents that drastically reduce the risk of lost or misplaced files

Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time.

Web Archiving Preserves webpage screenshots captured on a periodical basis

Web Fonts Renders web fonts to capture most accurate screenshots

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