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.
v13.5 [May 14, 2021]
- In task settings window, moved toast notification and sound settings from advanced tab to newly added notifications tab.
- Added drag and drop file support to toast notification (by @Craftplacer).
- Added “Copy file” and “Copy file path” notification click actions.
- UI improvements to hotkey settings window.
- Added option to automatically cleanup old backup and log files.
- Removed “Test” tab from custom uploader settings window. It is now a separate window which can be used in different places.
- Removed “Response” tab from custom uploader settings window. Both request and response contents are now in the same panel with scroll bar. You can maximize window to see all contents directly.
- Added inspect window tool.
- Added “Auto fill background” option to image combiner tool.
- Added rotate flip option to “Image” image effect.
- Added dash style option to “Border” image effect.
- Updated Zero Width Shortener API to v2, which now supports custom hosting.
- Actions now use $ prefix instead of % for input and output. New prefix will not add quotes around file path to give more control to user.
- Created example actions web page: https://getsharex.com/actions.
- Added “UseAlternativeClipboardGetImage” option to application settings advanced tab, which lets getting image from clipboard with alpha channel.
- Added ability to use roman numerals in step annotation tool (by @EdwardSierra).
- Support lowercase step letters and roman numerals.
- Added Vault.ooo file uploader (by @shjonas).
- When hotkeys are disabled, show enable hotkeys button in hotkey settings window.
- ShareX uninstaller will now prompt to close ShareX on behalf of the user if it is currently running.
