diff --git a/lib/src/posthog_widget_widget.dart b/lib/src/posthog_widget_widget.dart
index e37ca6b..8dc48e8 100644
--- a/lib/src/posthog_widget_widget.dart
+++ b/lib/src/posthog_widget_widget.dart
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:posthog_flutter/posthog_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:posthog_flutter/src/replay/mask/posthog_mask_controller.dart';
+import 'package:posthog_flutter/src/replay/vendor/equality.dart';
 import 'package:posthog_flutter/src/util/logging.dart';
 
 import 'replay/change_detector.dart';
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ class PostHogWidgetState extends State<PostHogWidget> {
   NativeCommunicator? _nativeCommunicator;
 
   Timer? _debounceTimer;
+  Uint8List? _lastSnapshot;
   Duration _debounceDuration = const Duration(milliseconds: 1000);
 
   @override
@@ -75,17 +77,32 @@ class PostHogWidgetState extends State<PostHogWidget> {
           screen: Posthog().currentScreen);
     }
 
-    // TODO: package:image/image.dart to convert to jpeg instead
+    // using png because its compressed, the native SDKs will decompress it
+    // and transform to jpeg if needed (soon webp)
+    // https://github.com/brendan-duncan/image does not have webp encoding
     final ByteData? byteData =
         await imageInfo.image.toByteData(format: ui.ImageByteFormat.png);
     if (byteData == null) {
       printIfDebug('Error: Failed to convert image to byte data.');
+      imageInfo.image.dispose();
       return;
     }
 
     Uint8List pngBytes = byteData.buffer.asUint8List();
     imageInfo.image.dispose();
 
+    if (pngBytes.isEmpty) {
+      printIfDebug('Error: Failed to convert image byte data to Uint8List.');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (const PHListEquality().equals(pngBytes, _lastSnapshot)) {
+      printIfDebug('Error: Snapshot is the same as the last one.');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    _lastSnapshot = pngBytes;
+
     await _nativeCommunicator?.sendFullSnapshot(pngBytes,
         id: imageInfo.id, x: imageInfo.x, y: imageInfo.y);
   }
@@ -110,6 +127,7 @@ class PostHogWidgetState extends State<PostHogWidget> {
     _changeDetector = null;
     _screenshotCapturer = null;
     _nativeCommunicator = null;
+    _lastSnapshot = null;
 
     super.dispose();
   }
diff --git a/lib/src/replay/vendor/equality.dart b/lib/src/replay/vendor/equality.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ce27f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/src/replay/vendor/equality.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Adapted from https://github.com/dart-lang/core/blob/7f9f597e64fa52faebd3c0a2214f61a7b081174d/pkgs/collection/lib/src/equality.dart#L164
+
+// ignore_for_file: library_private_types_in_public_api
+
+const int _hashMask = 0x7fffffff;
+
+/// A generic equality relation on objects.
+abstract class _Equality<E> {
+  const factory _Equality() = _DefaultEquality<E>;
+
+  /// Compare two elements for being equal.
+  ///
+  /// This should be a proper equality relation.
+  bool equals(E e1, E e2);
+
+  /// Get a hashcode of an element.
+  ///
+  /// The hashcode should be compatible with [equals], so that if
+  /// `equals(a, b)` then `hash(a) == hash(b)`.
+  int hash(E e);
+
+  /// Test whether an object is a valid argument to [equals] and [hash].
+  ///
+  /// Some implementations may be restricted to only work on specific types
+  /// of objects.
+  bool isValidKey(Object? o);
+}
+
+/// Equality of objects that compares only the natural equality of the objects.
+///
+/// This equality uses the objects' own [Object.==] and [Object.hashCode] for
+/// the equality.
+///
+/// Note that [equals] and [hash] take `Object`s rather than `E`s. This allows
+/// `E` to be inferred as `Null` in const contexts where `E` wouldn't be a
+/// compile-time constant, while still allowing the class to be used at runtime.
+class _DefaultEquality<E> implements _Equality<E> {
+  const _DefaultEquality();
+  @override
+  bool equals(Object? e1, Object? e2) => e1 == e2;
+  @override
+  int hash(Object? e) => e.hashCode;
+  @override
+  bool isValidKey(Object? o) => true;
+}
+
+/// Equality on lists.
+///
+/// Two lists are equal if they have the same length and their elements
+/// at each index are equal.
+///
+/// This is effectively the same as [IterableEquality] except that it
+/// accesses elements by index instead of through iteration.
+///
+/// The [equals] and [hash] methods accepts `null` values,
+/// even if the [isValidKey] returns `false` for `null`.
+/// The [hash] of `null` is `null.hashCode`.
+class PHListEquality<E> implements _Equality<List<E>> {
+  final _Equality<E> _elementEquality;
+  const PHListEquality(
+      [_Equality<E> elementEquality = const _DefaultEquality<Never>()])
+      : _elementEquality = elementEquality;
+
+  @override
+  bool equals(List<E>? list1, List<E>? list2) {
+    if (identical(list1, list2)) return true;
+    if (list1 == null || list2 == null) return false;
+    var length = list1.length;
+    if (length != list2.length) return false;
+    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+      if (!_elementEquality.equals(list1[i], list2[i])) return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  int hash(List<E>? list) {
+    if (list == null) return null.hashCode;
+    // Jenkins's one-at-a-time hash function.
+    // This code is almost identical to the one in IterableEquality, except
+    // that it uses indexing instead of iterating to get the elements.
+    var hash = 0;
+    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
+      var c = _elementEquality.hash(list[i]);
+      hash = (hash + c) & _hashMask;
+      hash = (hash + (hash << 10)) & _hashMask;
+      hash ^= hash >> 6;
+    }
+    hash = (hash + (hash << 3)) & _hashMask;
+    hash ^= hash >> 11;
+    hash = (hash + (hash << 15)) & _hashMask;
+    return hash;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool isValidKey(Object? o) => o is List<E>;
+}