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.
v11.7.0 [Apr 15, 2017]
ShareX 11.7.0 - 2017-04-14
We now have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/E4R3Qa9
Added Traditional Chinese translation (by @alantsai)
Implemented new Gfycat API with user account upload support (by @Dinnerbone)
Added Plik file uploader support (by @maxibanki)
All capture methods are now able to detect the active window automatically. If the active window region is equal to or bigger than the capture region, it is used for the %t (Window title) and %pn (Process name) naming syntax. For example; if you are taking a fullscreen capture and active window is maximized or fullscreen, then it will be automatically used for file naming
ShareX annotation mode is now enabled by default for new installations and will be used instead of Greenshot image editor
If a ShareX annotation is opened by an “After capture” task, then the following task buttons will now be available in the toolbar:
Apply changes & continue task Enter
Continue task Space / Right click
Cancel task Esc
The ShareX annotation window now uses a dark background around the image and shows checkers only behind the image
Added animation to region & shape selection border
Added animation under annotation toolbar on startup to make it more noticeable, because there is a lot of people still don’t know there is toolbar in region capture and it is possible to annotate using it
Reimplemented Amazon S3 from scratch to not use Amazon SDK libraries and allow more customization
Added custom endpoint/region support to Amazon S3 so other services which are compatible with Amazon S3 API with v4 signature can be used
Added a path style request option to Amazon S3 to support some custom services which require it
Added “Google image search” to the main window task list right click menu and as a URL sharing destination
Removed Dropbox public folder support because as of March 15, 2017 public folders have been disabled by Dropbox but shareable links can still be used
Removed Dropbox shortened URL option because it is not supported in Dropbox API v2; ShareX now uses fully API v2 endpoints because API v1 is going to be deprecated soon
Added Dropbox “Use direct link” option as check box which is usable with shareable links
Added custom domain support for GitHub Enterprise Gist anonymous uploads (by @maxibanki)
Add content type header to Azure Storage uploads so the browser can show content without requiring to download it (by @Scrxtchy)
Drag & dropping files from image history are now allowed
Added “Reset settings” button to “Application settings -> Export / Import tab”
HTTPS endpoints in Pastebin are now being used
