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.
v13.7 [Dec 30, 2021]
- Added "Main window" tab to "Application settings" window and moved related settings from main window right click menu to there.
- Added "Thumbnail click action" option to "Main window" tab:.
- Default.
- Select (double click opens the file).
- Open image viewer.
- Open file.
- Open folder.
- Open URL.
- Edit image.
- For screen recordings, get window info to be able to use in file naming and history tags, so that way it is now easier to search for videos in history window.
- Added "Sub folder pattern for window" option to "Application settings -> Paths", so that way %pn (process name) and %t (window title) formats can be used for screenshots folder.
- Added "Auto copy image to clipboard" option to image editor.
- System admins can now configure certain ShareX settings via registry. These settings should reside in either HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ShareX key or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ShareX key. Please note HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE has priority over HKEY_CURRENT_USER while reading the settings.*.
- DisableUpdateCheck (REG_DWORD) registry value disables update checks.
- DisableUpload (REG_DWORD) registry value disables uploads application wide (by @Erik3003).
- PersonalPath (REG_SZ) registry value overrides personal path of ShareX, which is by default "Documents\ShareX" folder.
- Added "Borderless window" tool. Some games such as Minecraft don’t let you take screenshots (screenshots looks black) while running in exclusive fullscreen mode and there is no in-game setting for fullscreen borderless too. Therefore, we wrote this tool to let us make the game fullscreen borderless and allow us to take screenshots from it.
- Support drag n drop file to "Video converter" window.
- Added region capture click action for "Capture last region".
- Added "Stop screen recording" hotkey.
- Added "Toggle tray menu" hotkey.
- Color picker dialog now remembers color palette mode selection.
- Swapped move/resize hotkeys behavior in region capture so arrow keys now move shapes instead of resizing them.
- Removed debug, donate, twitter, discord and about buttons from tray menu to keep it more compact.
- Added default printer override option (by @tajetaje).
- Added "Show stats" button to history window.
- Added "Process names" to history stats, which let you see from which applications you took your screenshots most.
- Visual improvements in "Image history" window.
- Added "Replace color" image effect.
- In "Application settings" window, moved "Retry" tab contents to "Upload" tab, and moved "Results" tab contents to "Clipboard formats" tab.
- Added external site dropdown menu for OCR window (by @IAmVisco).
- Added "Append file name to URL" option for ownCloud / Nextcloud (by @EmilyLove26).
- GitHub releases assets now include ".sha256" checksum files for setup and portable.
- Hotkey descriptions in "Hotkey settings" now have task-specific icons. Same for task dropdown in hotkey task settings..
- YouTube video title, description and visibility can now be set before upload through new "Video options" dialog.
- Text uploads using ShareX browser extension now respects file naming settings.
