Usually, you can take screenshot of only visible area on your display. But what if you could capture screenshot of the app by scrolling up and it will automatically keep capturing the long screenshot until you scroll up. Well, it's easy. In some devices, there is built-in feature called Super Screenshot or Long Screenshot which can capture long screenshot by scrolling up. If your device don't have these features, don't worry, I am going to share best trick to take long screenshot on any Android device.
In this tutorial, I am going to share a useful Android app which can be used to take long screenshot of any apps or stitch multiple screenshots into one. The name of the app is LongShot for long screenshot. This is my favorite app to take long screenshot on Android phone. For taking long screenshot, the view must be scrollable. Example, you can take long screenshots on Facebook, Messages, Twitter and any apps which can be scrolled vertically. You can also take the screenshot of any webpage using this technique. But there is different feature called CAPTURE WEB PAGE to take screenshot of a webpage. You can also join multiple screenshot image into one long screenshot. Lets see in detail on how to use LongShot to take long screenshot on Android.
Download and Install LongShot App
Click here to download and install LongShot from Play Store.
How to use LongShot App
Here we will learn in detail on how to use LongShot app to take long screenshot on your Android device. This is the interface of LongShot app.
There are 3 different ways to capture long screenshot which we are going to discuss here.
Capturing Long Screenshot(Live)
In this method, the app will automatically keep capturing and stitching long screenshot until you keep scrolling up. This method is faster and more accurate to capture long screenshot.
To capture long screenshot in this mode, make sure the speed mode is checked and click the capture button on the right. The app will show a small dialog window asking permission to record screen, click on START NOW.
After that, the app will come to your home screen. Open any app of which you want to take long screenshot and click on Start button.
After pressing the button, scroll upwards slowly upto the red line. Keep scrolling until you want to end screenshot. To end the screenshot, press the Done button.
Then it will ask you to check and adjust the images whether there is error in merging the images. Click on SAVE and the long screenshot image will be saved on your sdcard.
Click here to see a sample of long screenshot taken with LongShot.Capture Webpage Screenshot
You can use LongShot to capture webpage as image and save the image on your sdcard. To take the screenshot of a webpage, click on CAPTURE WEB PAGE. Then it will ask you to enter the URL. Enter the site URL and click GO.
It will load the webpage. Now, scroll the webpage to the position upto where you want to capture screenshot. There will be a red line at the bottom. All the content above that line will be included in the screenshot. Click on End here and capture button to capture screenshot. The image will be saved on the sdcard.
Click here to see the screenshot of my blog captured with LongShot.Stitch Screenshot Images
If you have already captured some screenshot images under the condition that the little area of bottom of screenshot1 should match the little area of top of screenshot2 and the width of all the selected images are be same. Then you can stitch the screenshots and get a long screenshot image. To merge the screenshots, click SELECT IMAGES. Then choose the screenshots to join. The image which should be at top should be selected first and so on. Select upto 64 images and click DONE.
In the next page you need to configure how the app should join your screenshot. If you choose auto mode, the app will automatically cut and join the screenshots. If you choose manual mode, then you should manually merge the screenshots. Manual mode is useful if the auto mode don't work properly. Choose the configuration and click Join.
Then it will ask you to check and adjust the images whether there is error in merging the images. If you have choosen manual mode, then you need to adjust the screenshots. After you have adjusted the images, click on SAVE and the long screenshot image will be saved on your sdcard.
Click here to see a sample of multiple screenshot images stitched into one using LongShot.
Following this tutorial, you have learned how can capture long screenshot of any apps on Android phone. If your device have built-in feature to capture long screenshot, then you can use that feature. Else, download LongShot app and capture long screenshot on any Android device.
