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.
v11.8.0 [Jul 4, 2017]
- Added “News” button to main window which will show new updates or announcements.
- Added “Crop” tool, which is not available when in region capture mode.
- Added “Image (Screen)” tool, which allows to duplicate area from the screen to move to a different position.
- Added disable animations option to region capture options menu.
- Region animation speed is now slightly faster
Changed toolbar highlight animation to not look like a progress bar.
- In region capture when using multi region, non active regions will use static ant border instead of blinking border.
- Tray icon progress animation changes.
- FTP settings UI remade to be more user friendly.
- Color picker will show old color where possible (for example if opened in image annotation window) under current color.
- In color picker if transparent button is pressed when alpha is 0, then alpha will be set to 255 which will allow quick toggling between 0 and 255.
- In region capture if an element is resized to be too small and resize nodes start overlapping, ShareX will now hide some of those resize nodes to allow for more precise control.
- Changes to default annotation settings.
- In order to increase image annotation performance some tools are now using lower quality rendering during annotation, but higher quality for final output.
- Added curved edge support to torn edges image effect.
- Added Screen recording (GIF) default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen for new installations.
- Added configurable environments support for Azure storage (by @nta).
- Added infinity expire time option to Plik file uploader (by @maxibanki).
- PNG bit depth is now configurable through task settings. Automatic detection will scan the image and apply best option for lower file size without quality loss.
- Now it is possible to drag n drop file from ShareX main window task list to Discord client.
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