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.
v11.1.0 [Jul 14, 2016]
Region capture related changes:
Tab key or Mouse 4 button will swap between last region tool and last annotation tool
Redesigned Task settings -> Region capture tab to be more user friendly
All mouse actions (except left click) will be configurable from Task settings -> Region capture that way you can get same behavior as old region capture; for example, right click to cancel capture
Removed AnnotationEnabled setting because you can now have full control on each mouse actions
Region capture will remember last used region tool and open with it selected
Last used annotation tool will be also remembered so that way when you swap tools it will select last used annotation tool
When drawing tool is selected cursor will show border color and size, this is also useful to know is current tool is region rectangle or drawing rectangle
Allow drawing info text near cursor when magnifier is not enabled
When creating region you can hold Ctrl key to change position of region
When region is selected Ctrl key will move region instead of Shift for consistency with region create moving
Holding Shift will increase region resize or move speed by 10px
Holding Alt will allow to resize region from bottom right instead of top left
Menu key will open options menu
Double clicking when multi region mode enabled won't close it when there is no region to be captured
When creating region holding Alt key will more accurately and with better performance calculate close regions to snap
Added previous Region capture (Annotation) back as hotkey only which will be called as Region capture (Simple annotate) in hotkey settings
Added puush file uploader
Added Google Drive direct link option (by @mihe)
Added option to remember last drawing mode in Greenshot image editor settings window (by @campbeb)
Scale Greenshot image editor window size when icons are larger than default (by @campbeb)
Added option to maximize the Greenshot image editor window when it is larger than working area (by @campbeb)
In SFTP upload if file with same name is exist, truncate file before uploading
After capture tasks -> Show file in explorer and in other places where folder need to be opened with file, it will use already open Windows Explorer window instead of re opening new one (by @dannoe)
Hotkey settings and quick task menu reset to default buttons will ask for confirmation (by @dannoe)
Implemented Dropbox API v2
Option to use file extension for Hastebin syntax highlighting
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