Lens
by Vectored · for Chrome & Edge
Capture a region of any tab as a PNG, a high-quality animated GIF or an MP4, or click through a flow and get a step-by-step guide out of it — annotated, named, and filed straight into a folder on your own machine with a metadata timeline beside it. GIFs record at up to 30 frames a second and encode at full captured resolution. Everything runs completely offline: no account, no subscription, no upload, no server.
What’s Inside
Everything Lens ships with — click any card for the documentation.
Region capture & annotation
Drag a region, resize it precisely, then annotate with pen, text, shapes and arrows. Blur rewrites the pixels rather than covering them, so redacted content cannot be recovered from the file.
Step-by-step guides
Click through a flow once and get a numbered walkthrough out of it — a screenshot per click, cropped to the control and captioned from the page itself. No AI involved. Export as one self-contained HTML file, as Markdown zipped with its screenshots, or straight into a doc — and import one back from a file or a link.
High-quality GIF and MP4 recording
Record a region while you keep using the page — clicks and scrolling pass straight through. GIFs encode at up to 30 frames a second and 100% of the captured resolution, with framerate, speed and scale under your control before you commit. MP4 for anything longer than a few seconds.
Recording survives navigation
Click a link mid-recording and it keeps going, with the controls rebuilt on the new page and the timer intact. Switch tabs and you can still stop it from the popup.
Projects and local folders
Each project writes into one folder you pick, with a project_metadata.json timeline beside the files recording the page, URL and region for every capture.
Timeline and dashboard
Every capture grouped by day, searchable by file name, page title or URL, filterable by project and type, and exportable as JSON.
Completely offline, no subscription
Every capture, recording and guide is produced on your own machine. There is no account to create, no subscription to pay for and no licence check — install it and it works, on a plane or behind a firewall, with the network switched off.
Naming that fits your workflow
A file name pattern with date, time and a per-day counter, plus PNG or JPEG output, clipboard copy on capture, click markers while recording and an optional shutter sound.
How It Works
- 1
Point it at a folder
Create a project and pick a folder. Chrome grants access to that one folder and nothing else.
- 2
Capture or record
Press the shortcut, drag a region, and either capture a still or start recording. Annotate stills before saving.
- 3
It lands on disk
The file is written into your folder, the metadata timeline is updated, and it appears in the popup — all without leaving your machine, and all without a network connection.
Where your captures go
Screenshots of internal tools are some of the most sensitive things a browser extension can touch. Lens is built so that they never leave the machine that took them: there is no account, no subscription, no server, no analytics and no network call at capture time. As installed it is completely offline — unplug the network and every feature on this page still works.
Before a capture is saved, Lens checks the region for passwords, API keys and tokens and offers to blur them — a check that runs on the page structure in your own browser, with no AI and nothing sent anywhere.
AI features are off on install. If you turn them on, you choose who does the work: your browser's built-in model, a model on your own machine, or an API key of your own. The first two keep everything local; picking a cloud provider asks you to confirm first. Either way there is no Vectored server in the path.
Lens is free, on the Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-ons. If there is something it should do that it does not, tell us — no account and no subscription required, then or later.