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.
v11.3.0 [Sep 30, 2016]
Added speech balloon drawing tool which works similar to text drawing tool but have moveable tail
Added image drawing tool so now you can select image from file dialog
Added support to paste image or text using Ctrl V key
Allow region capture right click menu to be closed by right clicking inside region capture window
Using rounded cap for line/arrow drawing
All region capture related tasks (screen color picker, ruler, screen record region selection etc.) will use currently configured region capture options such as magnifier, crosshair, snap size etc.
In text drawing tool, rectangle will be automatically resized according to initial text size so no need to drag rectangle when adding text anymore
Added corner radius setting to text drawing
In text input window, pressing Ctrl Enter will close window
In text input window, if a non-existent font was selected, automatically default to Arial font
Swapped Mouse wheel tool changing keybind with Ctrl Mouse wheel magnifier zoom changing keybind, otherwise people can change tool accidentally; so Mouse wheel will only change magnifier size now which will be less problematic than changing tool accidentally
Change pixel offset mode dynamically depending on pen size to draw line, rounded rectangle etc. aligned to exact pixels to avoid blurry lines
Removed Region capture (Simple annotate) hotkey because now current region capture have all features of old region capture annotate window.
