ExportFrames

Say you need a thumbnail, a storyboard or a few reference frames from a clip. Pausing and screenshotting gets old fast, and opening a full editor for a handful of stills feels like too much. ExportFrames lets you drop the file onto a web page and pull the frames right there. It's free and there's no sign-up.

You get four ways to choose. You can scrub to one frame by hand, take one every few seconds, ask for a chosen number spread across the clip, or grab every frame when the file lists a frame rate. Stills come out as PNG or JPG at the source size, one at a time or together in a ZIP.

The site's main claim is that the video is "decoded in this tab and is not posted to a server." Its privacy page backs that up, saying the page contains no upload request and that closing or refreshing the tab drops the file. The page doesn't bundle FFmpeg. It relies on whatever video decoding your browser already ships and draws each frame onto a canvas.

That choice has a cost, and the site is upfront about it. Which files open depends on your browser and the codec inside the file. The page tries MP4, MOV and MKV files, along with WEBM and AVI. Its own published test results are from September 2026 in Chrome on macOS, and Safari and Firefox haven't been tested yet. If a clip won't open, trying another browser or re-encoding the file is the likely fix.

It handles one video at a time, up to 2 GB, and a single run stops at 300 frames. For a long clip that means choosing a wider interval or working in sections.

On the privacy side, the site's privacy page describes Google Analytics page views and a country check, and says neither includes the video. No ads run today, though the site plans to add third-party ads to its written sections later. One person runs it under the site name, with no company behind it, and there's a contact email if something breaks. If you make thumbnails or storyboards and would rather not upload your footage anywhere, it's worth a bookmark.