ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.

ShareX supports many ways to capture or record your screen.

The main capture methods are:

• Fullscreen
• Active window
• Active monitor
• Window menu
• Monitor menu
• Region
• Region (Light)
• Region (Transparent)
• Last region
• Custom region
• Screen recording
• Screen recording (GIF)
• Scrolling capture
• Webpage capture
• Text capture (OCR)
• Auto capture

There are many configurable screen capture settings such as showing the cursor, transparent window capture, delayed capture, multiple region selection with different shapes, etc.

After the capture the following automated tasks can be executed:

• Show quick task menu
• Show "After capture" window
• Add image effects / watermark
• Annotate image
• Copy image to clipboard
• Print image
• Save image to file
• Save image to file as...
• Save thumbnail image to file
• Perform actions
• Copy file to clipboard
• Copy file path to clipboard
• Show file in explorer
• Recognize text (OCR)
• Show "Before upload" window
• Upload image to host
• Delete file locally

For example, the captured image can be opened in image annotator and after that, the image can be automatically saved to the hard disk and uploaded to your destination of choice.

ShareX allows you to upload any type of files with these methods:

• Upload file
• Upload folder
• Upload from clipboard
• Upload from URL
• Drag and drop upload
• Upload from Windows shell context menu
• Upload from Windows send to menu
• Watch folder

After the upload, any of the following automated tasks can be executed:

• Show "After upload" window
• Shorten URL
• Share URL
• Copy URL to clipboard
• Open URL
• Show QR code window

For example, the uploaded image URL can be automatically shortened using one of the 15 URL shortener services and the shortened URL can be copied to the clipboard.

ShareX also comes with a few simple productivity tools:

• Color picker
• Screen color picker
• Annotate image
• Image effects
• Hash check
• DNS changer
• QR code
• Ruler
• Directory indexer
• Image combiner
• Image thumbnailer
• Video thumbnailer
• FTP client
• Tweet message
• Monitor test

ShareX has an advanced hotkey system which allows you to use any of these capture methods, upload options or tools with their own task settings. These are called "Workflows". Workflows allow each hotkey to have its own after capture tasks, after upload tasks, destination etc. For example, you can set your screen recording hotkey to upload to a specific destination, bypassing the default destination. This way, only videos will be uploaded to this configured file destination.

What's New

• Added new "Dark" theme, and renamed previous theme to "Night"*
  • If you did not add a new theme manually then ShareX will assume theme settings are default and add the new theme automatically, otherwise you must reset theme settings to default to get it
• Updated our website theme to fit to new ShareX dark theme
  • Added "Pin to screen" tool*Available methods to use the tool*:
  • Tools menu → Pin to screen
  • Main window right click context menu → Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)
  • History/Image history window right click context menu → Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)
  • After capture tasks → Pin to screen
  • Toast notification click action option → Pin to screen
  • Create a hotkey
  • Available hotkeys that users can create:
  • Tools → Pin to screen
  • Tools → Pin to screen (From screen)
  • Tools → Pin to screen (From clipboard)
  • Tools → Pin to screen (From file)
  • Pin to screen keybinds:
  • Hold left click Move image
  • Right click / Escape Close image
  • Middle click Reset image
  • Double click Minimize image
  • Mouse wheel / + - Change image scale
  • Ctrl + Mouse wheel / Ctrl + + - Change image opacity
  • Ctrl + C Copy image
• Hotkey settings window visual improvements
• Allow changing hotkey tasks without opening task settings window, instead dropdown menu could be used, which also gonna make creating new hotkeys easier*
• Hotkeys which have their task settings overridden by the user are now indicated by "*" character at the end of hotkey task name
• Added support to quickly combine images in main window by drag and dropping thumbnails to top of each other
• Use ShareX theme in screen recording overlay
• Added "Pause" support to screen recording*
• Added "Pause screen recording" hotkey
• Added support to move recording region while recording is paused*
• All ShareX builds now include FFmpeg 5.1 64-bit built-in, 32-bit OS users can override FFmpeg path to use their own FFmpeg binaries
• Removed FFmpeg download button because it is not necessary anymore
• Added "Freehand arrow" annotation tool
  • Added "Cut out" tool to image editor (by @nielsmh)Available cut out effects:
  • No effect
  • Sawtooth
  • Torn edges
  • Wave
  • X keybind can be used to select the tool
• While annotating when Ctrl key is hold also disable selection of resize nodes
• Increase text annotation maximum font size to 300 from 100
• Added "Wave edge" image effect (by @nielsmh)
• Uploader configurations now assume https:// by default if prefix is missing from URL entered by user
• When downloading file to reupload, ShareX will request the file name from the server instead of parsing it from URL, this feature is mainly used with ShareX browser extensions because extension gives URL to ShareX which then downloads the file from URL to reupload it
• Added "DisableLogging" registry setting (Disables debug log file saving)
• If system admin disabled upload through registry then on first ShareX run disable after capture upload option too
• Using GitHub Actions to release builds now instead of AppVeyor
• "Install dev build" button now shows update message box and downloads the dev builds from ShareX/DevBuilds repository
• In auto update message box if "No" button is pressed then disable auto update check until ShareX is restarted
• Allow closing OCR window with Esc key
• In "Hash check" window allow dragging file to second file path textbox
• Added "Wrap after" option and image count label to "Image combiner" tool
• Include uploader name in upload error notifications
• Implemented OAuth loopback IP address flow for Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Cloud Storage and YouTube because the rest of authentication methods are deprecated for desktop apps by Google