Hide what you do not want. Keep what you do.
SnapPage cleans the page before it captures, so the screenshot is clean at full resolution — no cropping, and no repairing gaps in a photo editor.
What is Hide & Keep?
Hide & Keep is capture-time cleanup built into SnapPage. You point at elements on the page — remove the ones you do not want, or mark the ones you do — and then take the full-page screenshot.
The page is cleaned before it is captured, so nothing is left behind: no blank gaps, no half-covered banners, no cropping afterwards. A photo editor can only paint over pixels; SnapPage takes the element out of the layout, and the content below moves up into its place.
Hide: remove what gets in the way
Cookie banners, newsletter pop-ups, chat widgets, sticky headers, floating share bars and ad slots are all ordinary page elements, and Hide removes them the same way.
- Switch on Hide and click the elements you do not want in the capture. They disappear from the page immediately.
- Nothing is deleted from the site itself. The rule applies to your capture; the page loads normally for everyone else, and for you next time.
- On Pro, save the rule for the site. Your next capture of that site already excludes the same elements. On the free plan, Hide and Keep apply to the current capture only.
Keep: capture only the part that matters
Keep is the inverse of Hide. Instead of removing noise one element at a time, mark the section you want — an article body, a data table, a comment thread — and SnapPage captures that instead of the whole page.
- Use Keep when the page is mostly navigation: documentation with sidebar trees, dashboards with filter panels, forums with pinned notices.
- Keep and Hide combine. Keep the article, then hide the ad slot that sits inside it.
Remembered per site, not per session
On Pro, rules are stored together with the site they belong to, so they follow that site and nothing else. If a site changes its layout and a rule no longer matches, it is dropped instead of being applied to the wrong element. On the free plan, Hide and Keep apply to the current capture only.
Everything happens on your device
Hiding, keeping and stitching all run locally in the browser. The page is not uploaded, and neither is the screenshot. The only requests that leave your device are account and licence checks.
Questions
How do I take a screenshot without ads?
Switch on Hide in SnapPage, click each ad slot, sticky bar or pop-up, then capture. Those elements are left out of the full-page screenshot at full resolution.
Can I remove a cookie banner from a screenshot?
Yes. Cookie and consent banners are ordinary page elements, so Hide removes them in the same way as anything else.
Does hiding an element leave a blank space?
No. The element is removed from the layout and the content below moves up. A photo editor can only paint over the pixels, which is why edited screenshots often show gaps or blurred patches.
What is the difference between Hide and Keep?
Hide removes the elements you name. Keep captures only the elements you name. When most of a page is navigation and only one section matters, Keep is the faster route.
Does SnapPage remember my choices for a site?
Yes, on Pro. Save your choices and they are stored per site on your device, so the same elements are excluded the next time you capture that site. On the free plan, Hide and Keep apply to the current capture only.
Does Hide & Keep upload the page or the screenshot?
No. Everything runs locally in your browser. The only requests that leave your device are account and licence checks.
Is Hide & Keep free?
Hide and Keep are free for every capture: no watermark and no limit on how many screenshots you take. Saving rules so they apply automatically next time is a Pro feature.
Try it on the next page you capture
Free for every capture · No watermark · Pro remembers your rules per site