Extract a frame from any video
Grab thumbnails and stills at full resolution — instantly, right in your browser.
Free · No signup · Files never leave your device
Drag and drop a video file
or click to browse — frames export at full resolution
Popular exports
How it works
Drop your video
It stays on your device — nothing is uploaded, nothing to install.
Scrub to the exact frame
Use the player plus frame-by-frame buttons to land on the precise moment you want.
Download the still
A full-resolution PNG or JPG, captured instantly — free, no watermark.
Better than a screenshot
Screenshotting a paused video gives you whatever your screen happens to show: player controls, a scaled-down window, your OS cursor, and a resolution capped by your monitor. Extracting the frame properly reads the actual video data — a 4K video yields a true 3840×2160 image with no overlay, no scaling, and no compression artifacts beyond the codec's own. For thumbnails, cover images, documentation stills, and "what exactly happened at 2:35" evidence grabs, it's the difference between a snapshot and the source.
Frame-by-frame precision
The moment you want is rarely the moment the pause button lands on. The step buttons move through the video a single frame at a time — 1/30 of a second — so you can walk to the exact instant: eyes open, ball on the racket, the slide fully rendered. What the player shows is exactly what downloads, as a lossless PNG or a compact JPG, named with its timestamp so multiple grabs never overwrite each other.
Instant for most videos — with a fallback for the rest
MP4, WebM, and MOV frames are captured straight from the player with zero processing and zero downloads — it works offline once the page is open. Formats browsers can't play, like MKV or AVI, automatically switch to an in-browser FFmpeg extraction. Turning frames into something more? The background remover cuts your still out of its background, and the GIF maker handles the moving version.
Frequently asked questions
The video's native resolution — a 4K video gives you a 3840×2160 image. Nothing is scaled or compressed beyond your choice of PNG (lossless) or JPG (small).
PNG is pixel-perfect and ideal for thumbnails you will edit further or screenshots with text. JPG is much smaller and fine for photographic frames. You can capture the same frame in both with two clicks.
Frame-accurate: the step buttons move a single frame (1/30 s) at a time, and what you see in the player is exactly what gets captured.
MP4, WebM, and MOV are captured instantly straight from the player. Formats your browser cannot play — MKV, AVI, WMV — automatically fall back to an in-browser FFmpeg extraction; those take a moment longer but work just as well.
Yes. The frame extractor is completely free, with no signup, watermarks, or limits. We make money from our video translation service, not from this tool.
No. The frame is captured locally in your browser. Your video never leaves your device — for most formats not a single byte is even processed beyond the player you see.