Combine screenshots into one PDF

The short answer: five steps in your browser

You don't need an app. The browser on your phone or computer can put screenshots into one PDF:

1. Open PNG to PDF in Chrome, Safari or any up-to-date browser.
2. Tap Choose PNG files and pick all your screenshots at once. On an iPhone, choose Photo Library and open the Screenshots album. On Android, use the Screenshots album in your gallery or the Screenshots folder in your files.
3. Check the cards. Each screenshot becomes a card, and the number on the card is its page number. Drag a card by its numbered handle to move it. Tap the × to remove one.
4. Leave Page size on Same as picture, then press the big button. It counts your screenshots, as in "Convert 5 pictures to PDF".
5. Tap Download. The PDF is named after your first screenshot, with the page count added, like screenshot-2026-5-pages.pdf, and goes to your Downloads.

Your screenshots are not uploaded. The PDF is made by your own browser, and once the page has loaded it works even with the internet switched off. There is no sign-up and no watermark. That matters, because screenshots are often the most private pictures on a phone: chats, bank apps, tickets with your name on them.

What makes the PDF useful is what you do before and after those steps. The rest of this article covers it.

Take the screenshots with the PDF in mind

A few seconds of care while you take the screenshots saves a lot of fixing later.

• Take them in reading order. Gallery apps usually list screenshots by the time you took them, so first-taken, first-page is the easiest rule to follow.
• One screenshot, one point. A page that shows the payment amount and nothing else is easier to check than one that squeezes in five different screens.
• Show what proves it. For a payment, take the details screen, not only the green tick: amount, date and time, the receiver's name and the reference number. For a ticket, keep the passenger name and booking number in view.
• Overlap when you scroll. In a long chat or web page, scroll a little less than a full screen, so the last message of one screenshot is the first message of the next. Nobody then wonders what was missed in between.
• Switch to light mode if the PDF may be printed. A dark screen makes a page of dark ink.

A cover note without any tool. Our converter only adds pictures. It can't type a title on a page. But you can make a first page yourself: type two lines in your notes app, like "Payment proof for the January fee, Priya Sharma", take a screenshot of the note and add it as the first card.

Scrolling screenshots. Many phones can take one long screenshot of a whole chat. The converter takes it, but every picture is shrunk to fit one page, and with Same as picture the long side of a page is always 297 mm, the height of A4. So a very long screenshot becomes one thin strip of a page. On a phone you can zoom in and scroll along it, but printed, the writing is tiny. If the PDF may be printed, take normal screenshots with overlap instead.

PNG or JPG? Many phones save screenshots as PNG, and some save them as JPG. The converter takes both, and a JPG goes in exactly as it is.

Getting the order right

The order of the cards is the order of the pages. The cards appear in the order you pick the files, so pick them in reading order if you can. Then don't assume: look at the number and the picture on each card before you convert.

• On a phone, drag a card by the numbered handle in its top-left corner. Touching the rest of the card just scrolls the page, so you won't move cards by accident. Hold a card near the top or bottom edge of the screen and the page scrolls along, so you can move a card past ones that are out of view.
• With a mouse, drag a card from anywhere. With a keyboard, press Tab to reach a handle, then use the arrow keys.
• Skip the dragging by adding in groups. New pictures always go to the end, so pick the first screenshots, then use Add more pictures for the next ones.

Each card also has a turn button, which turns a picture a quarter turn to the right, and the × button. Two screenshots of the same screen are easy to take by mistake, so look for twins and remove the weaker one.

On a computer, you can drop files from a folder anywhere on the page. The page also accepts a picture pasted with Ctrl + V (Cmd + V on a Mac), so you can copy a screenshot to the clipboard and paste it straight in. We have not tried every browser with this, so if nothing happens, save the screenshot as a file and add it in the usual way.

Common jobs, and what to put in the PDF

People combine screenshots for many reasons. Here is what to include and how to line it up for six everyday ones:

Ask what the other side accepts. A screenshot is easy to change, so some offices and companies want the original message, a printout or an official copy instead. A PDF of screenshots is a tidy way to show what happened. It is not a legal document, and we can't say what any particular office will take.

Need one PDF for each screenshot? Some portals have a separate slot per document. Set Make to A PDF each, and you get one ZIP file holding a PDF for every screenshot, each named after its picture. A ZIP is one file that holds several others; the Files app on most phones and computers can open it.

Hide private details before you convert

This is the step people forget. The converter doesn't crop, blur or draw on pictures. It puts each one into the PDF as it is, so everything on the screen goes to whoever opens the PDF. Look at each screenshot for:

• Notification banners at the top. They can show a message, a name or an OTP. Never share an OTP with anyone.
• Other people's chats and names in the same list.
• Account numbers, card numbers, UPI IDs, phone numbers and addresses that the other side doesn't need.
• Balances and other transactions that sit next to the one you want to show.

Fix these in your photo app first. Crop away the top strip and anything else you don't need. For a number in the middle, most photo apps have a markup or drawing tool: cover it with a solid colour, not a faint highlighter. Then save the edited copy and add that copy to the converter, not the original. Check the card: what you see there is what goes into the PDF.

This is also why a private converter matters. Many online PDF tools upload your pictures to their servers, and a chat or a bank screen is the last kind of picture you want on someone else's computer. Here your own browser does the work. Our privacy page has the details.

One PDF, two shapes: phone and computer screenshots

Phone screenshots are tall and computer screenshots are wide. What the PDF does with them depends on Page size.

Same as picture is the best choice for a PDF that will be read on a screen. Each page takes the shape of its screenshot, with nothing around it. In our test, a 1080 × 2400 phone screenshot became a page 134 × 297 mm: the height of an A4 sheet, but much narrower. On a phone, you flick from one screenshot to the next with nothing in between.

If one PDF holds both kinds, a wide computer screenshot is shown smaller on a phone, because it has to fit the width of the screen. Turn the phone sideways, or zoom in.

A4 or Letter suits a PDF that will be printed, or a portal that asks for A4 pages. Every page then gets the same sheet, and each picture is scaled to fit and centred, never cropped or stretched. Direction only matters for these paper sizes. On Auto, the setting it starts on, wide screenshots get a sideways sheet and tall ones an upright sheet. A tall phone screenshot on an upright sheet leaves wide white strips on both sides, so on a phone screen it shows smaller than on a page of its own shape. If you print, choose a Small margin, so the edges stay clear of the printer's edge.

The page size part of the guide goes through more cases.

Making the PDF small enough to send

A PDF of plain PNG screenshots is about as big as the screenshots themselves, because they go in untouched. In our tests in Chrome on a computer, one phone screenshot of 482 KB made a PDF of 482 KB. Two phone screenshots of 664 KB made a two-page PDF of 663 KB, in 0.2 seconds. The result line shows both numbers for your own files, the screenshots on the left and the PDF on the right.

Gmail takes attachments up to 25 MB, and sends anything bigger as a Google Drive link. A portal with a small limit is a different matter. Then make the PDF smaller afterwards:

• For a form with a limit, use Compress PDF to 100 KB. In our test, the 482 KB one-screenshot PDF went to 90 KB, and the result said Good.
• For email or chat, use our PDF compressor. The 663 KB two-screenshot PDF went to 143 KB at Recommended.

Both steps make pictures lighter on purpose, so keep your full-quality PDF and your original screenshots. If one place wants 100 KB and another wants 2 MB, start again from the full-quality PDF each time. You can also cut the size before converting: remove twins and screenshots nobody needs, and crop away the empty parts of a screen.

Check it, fix it, send it

Before you send, open the PDF and scroll through every page. Are they all there, in order, and the right way up? Our PDF Viewer opens it in the browser if your phone has no PDF app. Zoom in on the small print, such as the reference number. A plain screenshot keeps every pixel in the PDF, so if you could read it in the screenshot, you can read it in the PDF.

If something is wrong with the finished file:

• Wrong order, or a page too many: Organize PDF moves and deletes pages in a finished PDF.
• A page on its side: Rotate PDF turns pages and saves the file.
• More screenshots to add later: turn them into their own PDF and join the two with Merge PDF.

Name it for the person who gets it. screenshot-2026-5-pages.pdf says little. Priya-Sharma-payment-proof.pdf is clear. Most Files apps let you rename a file when you touch and hold it. If a portal asks for a certain name, use exactly that.

Send it as a file, not as a photo. In WhatsApp, use the attach button and choose Document. In email, attach it from Downloads.

Remember what a PDF of screenshots can't do. The text in a screenshot is part of the picture. People can read it, but they can't search for a word or copy it, and our page doesn't recognise text. If the other person has to copy an account number or a reference, type it in your message as well.

Other ways to do it, and when they are enough

For two or three pictures, other choices can be quick:

• The Files app on an iPhone can make a PDF from pictures you select there. It is built in and private. Your screenshots live in the Photos app, though, so they have to be saved to Files first, and you should check the page order in the result.
• Preview on a Mac can open several pictures and save them as one PDF.
• Upload-based websites work on any device, but they send your screenshots to their servers, and the free plans of such sites often cap the size or number of files. For chats and bank screens, that is a high price.
• PNG to PDF here works the same on a phone, a Windows PC or a Mac, shows every picture as a card you can drag into place, keeps plain screenshots exactly as they are, and uploads nothing.

One more thing for screenshots with see-through corners or shadows, such as a screenshot of a single window on a Mac: the see-through parts become white. Our article on transparent PNGs explains exactly what happens.

Problems and quick fixes

• A card shows a warning. The browser couldn't open that file as a picture, so it is left out and the others still convert. Open it in your photo app, save it again and add it again.
• Pages look small, with white strips beside them. Page size is on A4 or Letter, which puts a tall screenshot on a wider sheet. Switch back to Same as picture and convert again.
• Pages are in the wrong order, or one is sideways. Your cards are still on the page. Drag them into place, or press the turn button, and convert again.
• The download is a ZIP, not a PDF. Make is set to A PDF each. Set it back to One PDF and convert again.
• The result says a picture was "stored again." That is normal for some phone screenshots, which carry a see-through layer even though nothing in them is see-through. They are stored again without loss, and the page looks the same.

The problems part of the guide has the rest. The guide also explains how to read the result line and where each device keeps its screenshots.