Updated October 2026
Windows has a few scattered, partial ways to grab something video-frame-shaped — a screen snip while paused, or a basic snapshot button tucked into some versions of the built-in Photos/Movies & TV app — but none of them reliably give you the video's actual full-resolution pixel data with frame-accurate control over which exact frame you land on. This tool does that directly, in whichever browser you already have open.
Visit this page in Edge, Chrome, or Firefox and either click to browse File Explorer for a video, or drag a file straight from a File Explorer window onto the upload area. Anything already saved on your PC — recorded footage, a downloaded file you have the rights to use, an exported project clip — works the same way. There's no field for a web link, only a local file picker, by design.
Use the seek bar with your mouse to get close, then the −1 frame / +1 frame buttons to land exactly where you want. The tool tries to auto-detect your video's real frame rate right after it loads using the browser's decoded-frame timestamps; Edge and Chrome on Windows (both Chromium-based) generally support that detection well, while Firefox's support can vary — if the fps dropdown doesn't resolve automatically, just pick your video's known frame rate (commonly 24, 25, 30, or 60fps) from the list and stepping will still be accurate.
Pausing a video and pressing the Windows Snipping Tool or Print Screen captures your monitor at your screen's resolution and scaling, including whatever's around the video window — taskbar, browser chrome, or player controls if you're not careful with the crop. This tool instead draws the video's actual decoded frame directly onto an in-page canvas and exports that — full frame, no UI, no display-resolution ceiling, and repeatable frame-by-frame precision that a manual screenshot timing can't match.
Click "Grab this frame" and the browser saves the PNG or JPG using its normal download settings — typically straight into your Downloads folder, from which it opens in Photos, Paint, or any image app exactly like a file you saved from anywhere else.
There's no installer, no background process, and nothing running after you close the tab — the whole thing is a web page that happens to do real video decoding client-side. That matters on work laptops or shared PCs where installing new software isn't an option, or where you just don't want another app taking up space for something you'll use occasionally.
If your video came from a phone via USB transfer, a camera's SD card, or a cloud sync folder like OneDrive, make sure the file has fully copied to local disk before loading it — a file still syncing or copying in the background can load partially or fail to seek correctly. Once it's a normal, fully-copied file in File Explorer, it behaves the same as any other video for this tool regardless of which device originally recorded it.
Which Windows browser works best? Edge and Chrome (both Chromium-based) tend to have the most reliable automatic frame-rate detection; Firefox and other browsers still work for scrubbing, grabbing, and batch export, just with the manual fps dropdown as a more likely fallback.
Do I need administrator rights to use this? No — it's a web page, not installed software, so there's nothing that needs elevated permissions.
Is my video uploaded to a server while I use this? No — everything runs locally in the browser tab on your PC. See the privacy policy.
Can I use this on an old version of Windows? Any reasonably current version of Edge, Chrome, or Firefox works, regardless of the underlying Windows version, since the tool only depends on standard browser APIs.