How to Make a Chrome Extension Demo Video for Your Listing
Chrome Web Store listings live or die on their preview media. Here's how to show your extension's interface clearly, without a screen recording.
Try Mockly FreeCapture the popup cleanly
Take a screenshot of your extension's popup or side panel with the browser chrome cropped tightly, so the framing focuses on the extension itself once placed in a device frame.
Frame it in context
A Desktop or Mac browser frame around your cropped screenshot shows the extension in its real working environment, rather than floating in isolation.
Scroll through settings or output
If your popup has multiple sections, a linear scroll pass reveals them in order, giving viewers a full sense of the extension's functionality in a few seconds.
Frequently asked questions
Cropping to just the popup or panel usually communicates faster, though framing it inside a browser window frame adds helpful context about where it lives.
The store primarily displays screenshots; a video demo works well embedded on your own landing page or linked from your listing description.
Since the whole process just needs a fresh screenshot, re-exporting an updated demo after a UI change takes only a couple of minutes.