GrabzIt vs Lightscreen
GrabzIt
grabz.itLightscreen
lightscreen.com.arSide by side
| Figure | GrabzIt | Lightscreen |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · Screenshot Software | 9.2 (#3) | 8.2 (#13) |
| Spec score · Screenshot tools | 8.9 (#5) | 7.7 (#29) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Maker | GrabzIt Limited was founded in April 2012 by Dominic Skinner and is based in London's Silicon Roundabout area. | The site credits Lightscreen to Christian Kaiser. |
Plans
GrabzIt
- MicroPrice not published
- EntryPrice not published
- FreeFree
- Professional$24.99 a month
- Business$99.99 a month
- Enterprise$199.99 a month
In their own words
GrabzIt
GrabzIt brings web capture, scraping, monitoring, and conversion tools together through APIs, online tools, and browser extensions. Its Web Capture API turns URLs or HTML into PDFs, DOCX files, screenshots, videos, animated GIFs, tables, icons, or rendered HTML. A cloud-based scraper uses a no-code wizard to extract structured data from static and JavaScript-driven sites, including pages behind logins. Results can be exported as Excel, XML, CSV, JSON, HTML, or SQL, or delivered through Dropbox, FTP, a database, a webhook, or email. Web Monitor tracks pages or selected sections and can alert users through email, Slack, or webhook when something changes. GrabzIt lists plugins for WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, plus Chrome, Firefox, and Edge extensions. The product runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, the web, and self-hosted setups. Its free plan costs nothing and includes basic features, a monthly scraping allowance, and monitoring for up to 50 webpage changes per month.
Lightscreen
Lightscreen automates screenshot capture and saves and catalogs images on disk according to user preferences. It can run as a hidden background process and respond to global hotkeys, with six configurable capture actions. Users can resize or adjust the capture area, then review an image in a preview window with an integrated viewer. Captures can be named sequentially or with customizable date and time formats. For sharing, Lightscreen uploads to Imgur and compatible pomf clones; users can also add other compatible hosts manually. Imgur uploads are anonymous, and the help page describes account uploads as planned for a later version. Portable mode stores preferences in config.ini so settings can move with the installation. Lightscreen supports Windows and Linux, and the site lists version 2.5 with improvements to area capture and fixes for cursor capture, crashes, and SSL issues. Uploads may require OpenSSL support on either platform. The code is licensed under GNU General Public License version 2, and the listed Free plan costs nothing.