Taking screenshots of your desktop or recording any activity taking place in it and uploading the result to your favorite sites is a simple enough task that you can perform with a series of Windows tools and some time. ShareX, however, is capable of performing the entire process in just one go, using one simple open-source high-quality tool and providing excellent results.
This excellent utility is a must for anyone using their computer to create presentations and tutorials, to produce and share learning content, or simply to make recordings of streaming video, audio, meetings, virtual family gatherings, and pretty much anything that happens on your screen.
In one free, simple, and attractive utility, you will find all the tools you need not only to capture what’s going on on your desktop, but also to edit and enhance the result and to share to your favorite social networks to store it in the cloud. You can select which part or window on the screen you wish to record or capture, and turn it into a pro-looking product that you can share with colleagues, friends, and family. ShareX comes with a powerful image editor that pops up as soon as you take the first screenshot. There you can easily add shapes, emoticons, grids, arrows, text, drawings, blurred areas..., you name it. Think of a professional image editor embedded into an open-source capture screen utility.
Unlike many other similar tools – provided that you find that many – ShareX comes with some extras that will surely surprise you. For one, OCR capabilities, so that you can transform into editable text any textual information included in your captures. Also, a QR code encoder/decoder, for you to produce new QR codes with the content of your choice and to find out what’s in a QR stored on your computer or scanned using ShareX.
As its name implies, ShareX is also all about sharing. Without leaving the program, you can upload your new content (even if it’s on your clipboard) to your favorite hosts, including Dropbox, Facebook, MEGA, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Amazon S3, to name but a few of the most widely used.
The program has been heavily and widely tested and used since its first version back in 2010, when it was known as ZUploader. Since then, it has evolved into a comprehensive high-quality tool that will cost you nothing and will provide you with utilities that usually require a handful of standalone programs – if only for this, this open-source development truly deserves an icon on your desktop.
v11.0.1 [Jun 10, 2016]
Added annotation support inside region capture. In region capture you can right click to open menu which you can select annotation tool, capture fullscreen/monitor or be able to change region capture options. You can use middle click to cancel capture.
These are the currently available annotation tools:
Region
Rectangle
Rounded rectangle
Ellipse
Drawing
Rectangle
Rounded rectangle
Ellipse
Line
Arrow
Text
Step
Effect
Blur
Pixelate
Highlight
You can change these settings from region capture options menu:
Multi region mode
Show tips
Show position and size info
Show magnifier
Square shape magnifier
Magnifier pixel count
Magnifier pixel size
Show screen wide crosshair
Fixed size region mode
Show FPS
Added option to disable annotation support via "Task settings window -> Region capture tab"
Removed "Region (Annotate)" capture because default region capture has annotation support now
Added "Text capture (OCR)" to capture menu
Also added "Recognize text (OCR)" option to "After capture tasks" menu
Added lithi.io file uploader (by @lithium720)
Added sli.mg image uploader
Added option in "Destination settings, Email tab" to send email to a specific email address without requiring user prompt
Added icons for "After capture tasks" menu and "After upload tasks" menu items; checked items text will now display as bold
Added Copy dropdown button in "Color picker" window with the following items to be able to copy specific color type:
All
RGB
Hexadecimal
CMYK
HSB
Decimal
Position
Added "SaveSettingsAfterTaskCompleted" setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" and enabled by default, this setting saves all settings after each task completed but only if there is no other active task (so if there are 50 tasks running in same time only after all tasks completed, settings will save) reason for this setting is because in few people while Windows shutdown does not let ShareX to save settings therefore having this option allows to secure settings in this situations
Region capture tips will show in active monitor instead of primary monitor
"Quick task menu" and "After capture window" after capture tasks now can be used in all image related tasks
Before uploading ShareX will check current destination config requirements and if config is not valid then will stop the task, warn user about invalid config and open destination settings window with current upload destination tab selected so user can check config easily
Added Shift C hotkey to main window list to be able to copy selected file
Added tip icon to top right corner of main window to show tips and hotkeys that can be used in main window
Added support to be able to drag file from main window list to Windows Explorer or any other software (Holding Ctrl while dragging will copy URL or file path instead of file)
Added custom region hotkeys for "Screen recording" and "Screen recording (GIF)"
Added "Select region" button for custom region option in "Task settings, Capture tab", this custom region option is used with custom capture hotkeys
Added Text to speech support for capture and task completed sounds in "Task settings -> Advanced tab"
All picture boxes in ShareX will now show image size when hovered with cursor
Added DisableUpload setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" which can disable uploading in whole application
Added TrayTextMoreInfo setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" which shows version and build info in tray icon tooltip which can be handy if you are running multiple ShareX build in same time
ShareX now uses system colors in all UI as possible to support custom themes such as Windows high contrast theme correctly
Added image drag & drop support to "Image combiner" tool
Added direct URL support for Streamable
Added tray button click options to "Application settings" window to be able to change which task to execute. If tray primary double click action is None then single primary click action can execute immediately without wait for double click check
Added "Open main window" hotkey
Added settings window to Greenshot Image Editor to be able to change few settings
Location of custom setting file paths will be stored in %LocalAppData%\ShareX\PersonalPath.cfg so that way it will be specific to user account and also allows to change it without requiring to run ShareX as admin. If you already have PersonalPath.cfg where ShareX.exe is then it would still work as usual
