Shotback
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The facts
Each one read from Shotback's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent handoff
- It can export an annotated PNG and JSON sidecar with page and annotation details for Claude Code.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Annotations
- Its annotation tools include boxes, arrows, text, highlights, freehand pen, redaction, and crop.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The Chrome Web Store listing is not yet published; the README describes building from source and loading the unpacked extension in Chrome.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Capture
- It captures a visible area or a full page, including an option to wait three seconds before capturing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Capture modes
- It supports full-page captures, visible-area captures, and full-page captures after a three-second countdown.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data retention
- The privacy policy says Shotback keeps up to 50 shares for up to 30 days by default, then prunes the oldest shares.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Diagnostics limit
- Failed-request diagnostics are partial because only same-origin failures and cross-origin failures that opt in via CORS are readable, and the browser retains roughly the last 250 resource entries.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- The README says the Chrome Web Store listing is not yet published and instructs users to build from source and load the extension unpacked.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Element context
- Annotations can include the underlying element’s CSS selector, visible text, and React component chain.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the project as MIT licensed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local shares
- Share links work only in the browser profile that created them and are not public URLs.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Other handoffs
- It can prepare an image and prompt for a cloud LLM, copy an image to the clipboard, or create a browser-profile-local share link.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page context
- Annotations can include the underlying page element’s CSS selector, visible text, and React component names.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Permissions
- The listed permissions include activeTab, tabs, scripting, storage, downloads, and all-URLs host access for capture and annotation.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says Shotback makes no network requests of its own and stores captures in the local browser profile unless the user exports them.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Shotback is a Chrome extension for screenshot review, annotation, and LLM-assisted visual feedback.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Redaction limit
- Redaction pixelates hidden regions, and the maker cautions that short strings may sometimes be recovered from the pixelation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security limits
- The security policy says Shotback has no authenticated multi-user model or default encrypted cloud storage mode.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker profile
- GitHub identifies DCCA as Daniel Andrade and describes Shotback as a human-in-the-loop visual QA workflow for screenshot annotation and LLM-ready product feedback.checked 5 Oct 2026
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