Privacy Policy

ScreenGif Chrome & Safari Extension · Last updated: March 2026

    Short version: ScreenGif collects nothing. All screen recording and GIF encoding happens entirely on your device. No data is ever transmitted anywhere.
  

What ScreenGif does

ScreenGif is a browser extension that captures a region of your screen as an animated GIF and saves it directly to your Downloads folder. It is designed for sharing UI interactions in bug reports, UAT feedback, and team communication.

Data collection

ScreenGif collects no user data of any kind.

No personally identifiable information
No usage analytics or telemetry
No crash reports
No screen content is stored, transmitted, or logged
No cookies or local storage (beyond what the browser requires to run the extension)

How screen capture works

When you start a recording, the browser captures a video stream of the selected tab or screen. This stream is processed entirely within your browser using the canvas API and the bundled gifenc library. The resulting GIF is written directly to your Downloads folder using the browser's built-in download API.

At no point does the screen content leave your device.

Permissions used

tabCapture — captures the current tab's video stream locally, without a picker dialog
offscreen — holds the media stream in an offscreen document during GIF encoding
scripting + activeTab — injects the region-selection overlay into the active tab
downloads — saves the encoded GIF to your Downloads folder
notifications — displays an error notification if a tab cannot be captured (e.g. browser internal pages)

No host permissions are requested. The extension cannot access any website's content except when you explicitly start a recording.

Third-party services

ScreenGif uses no third-party services, SDKs, APIs, or analytics platforms. The extension makes zero outbound network requests. This is enforced via a strict Content Security Policy (connect-src: none) in the extension manifest.

Open source

ScreenGif is fully open source. You can inspect every line of code at github.com/arjunlohan/screengif.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this URL and the "Last updated" date above will be revised.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at github.com/arjunlohan/screengif/issues.