BrowseShot For Mac

One of OS X's most useful features is the fact that it comes with a native and conveniently integrated screenshot capturing capability which allows you to instantly take snapshots of specific parts of the screen, of a selected window’s area, or full-screen snapshots if you need to grab everything on your Mac's screen.

BrowseShot is a simple and straightforward application designed as an addition to your Mac’s OS X built-in screenshot capturing capabilities, seeing that it makes it easy for you to capture full-length website screenshots.

The process of capturing website snapshots is pretty straightforward, as you only need to enter the website’s URL in BrowseShot’s address bar, push the Enter button or click the green triangle shaped button on the right side, and the website will be displayed, just like as it would when using a normal browser.

Once the website is loaded, the only thing left to do is to click the camera shaped button from the right upper part of BrowseShot’s main window, select a destination for the saved screenshot on your Mac’s hard-drive, and you swiftly capture a full-length image of the entire webpage in question.

The full-length saved image of the website will be saved in PNG format, thus enabling you to easily preview it with the help of any installed image viewers. Note that, probably because of it being in its initial stages of life, BrowseShot does not offer support for capturing screenshot of websites that use Java or Flash plugins.

Another thing that should be mentioned is the fact that you can only take snapshots of a single website at a time, and once a new website is opened it will take the place of the currently displayed one because BrowseShot does not handle tab browsing.

Another downside is the fact that BrowseShot cannot save images of websites that have the scrolling feature disabled, for example Gmail webpage.

We would have also liked BrowsShot more if it would provide a larger selection of output image formats. This way, you could export the captured website to PSD for easier image editing using layers or to JPEG for smaller sized captures.

BrowseShot works well and manages to be a useful tool when you need to view a website in its entirety. Regarding its list of limitations, we can only hope that in the near future, solutions will be provided for these issues, and, thus, BrowseShot will become a better OS X app.