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.
v12.2.0 [Jun 24, 2018]
- Added new image editor / region capture keybinds.
- Holding Ctrl will ignore shape intersection; that way you can, for example draw a rectangle inside another rectangle without selecting it.
- Added draggable custom scroll bar to the image editor, which automatically hides when the image is fully inside the window (by @L1Q).
- Added gradient text color support to image editor “Text (Outline)” tool.
- Added confirmation message box for unsaved changes when user closes the image editor by pressing title bar close button, Esc key or Right click.
- When pasting image, inserting image file or inserting image from screen, show insert image dialog which allows automatically expanding canvas to bottom or right side and inserting image there.
- Allow to hide or show magnifier with mouse wheel, for example you can Mouse wheel down until magnifier disappear and Mouse wheel up to show it back.
- Image editor will stop rendering when it’s out of focus to reduce unnecessary CPU usage.
- Added Enter and Esc key support to image editor dialogs.
- Added recent colors support to color picker which remembers last used 32 colors for quick selection.
- Screen color picker now shows current color sample in a rectangle next to its value.
- Added screen color picker support to image editor color picker.
- Added Ukrainian language support (by @6c6c6).
- Added Indonesian language support (by @Nicedward).
- Added show “Edit with ShareX” button in Windows Explorer context menu option to “Application settings window -> Integration tab”.
- Added support to escape custom uploader argument and header patterns with \.
- Support referrer and user-agent headers in custom uploaders.
- Added Cloudflare DNS to DNS changer tool.
- Added Firebase Dynamic Links URL shortener (by @matthewburnett).
- Added YouTube file uploader (by @SupSuper).
- Added Google Cloud Storage file uploader (by @matthewburnett).
- Updated OneDrive uploader to Microsoft Graph API, this change allows using OneDrive for Business and uploading higher size files (by @SupSuper).
- Added Wasabi endpoint to Amazon S3 endpoints list.
- Added Azure Storage custom upload path support (by @Lego6245).
- Added Azure Storage $root container support (by @Lego6245).
- Container name won’t be appended to Azure Storage custom domain automatically anymore, can be added manually to custom domain section if needed.
- Removed auto container creation from Azure Storage upload to decrease upload time.
- Added URL preview to Azure Storage tab to make configuring easier.
- Removed GitHub gist anonymous upload support because it is deprecated.
- Removed Google URL shortener because it is deprecated.
- Removed Dropfile, Pastee and CoinURL.
- Added after capture task “Scan QR code” (requires image to be saved as file).
- Added “Ask for confirmation when aborting screen recording” option (by @stuntguy3000).
- Added upload image button to image effects window.
- Added selective color image effect which allows making two color images.
- Added color option to canvas image effect.
- Added sides option to auto crop image effect.
- High DPI improvements for UI (by @SupSuper).
- When ShareX is updating, setup will be run with \UPDATE parameter which makes sure that the setup will not apply initial tasks again such as creating desktop shortcut or context menu entries (by @sylveon).
- Added option to replace non-unreserved characters by underscores (by @sylveon).
- If pre-release updates checkbox is checked then dev build install button will show up.
- Added upload file and edit image context menu buttons to history and image history windows.
- Added hotkey repeat limit option (Application settings -> Advanced tab).
