/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.

Primary LanguageC#GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

ShareX

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Features

Capturing

ShareX incorporates the following methods to allow screen capture.

  • 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

Region capture tools

  • Region
    • Rectangle
    • Rounded rectangle
    • Ellipse
    • Freehand
  • Drawing
    • Rectangle
    • Rounded rectangle
    • Ellipse
    • Freehand
    • Line
    • Arrow
    • Text
    • Speech balloon
    • Step
    • Image
  • Effect
    • Blur
    • Pixelate
    • Highlight

After capture tasks

You can select any or all of these tasks to be automatically run after each screen capture.

  • Show quick task menu
  • Show "After capture" window
  • Add image effects / watermark
  • Open in image editor
  • 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

Uploading

ShareX has multiple ways to upload files.

  • Upload file
  • Upload folder
  • Upload from clipboard
  • Upload from URL
  • Drag and drop upload (drop area or main window)
  • Upload from Windows shell context menu
  • Upload from Windows send to menu
  • Watch folder

After upload tasks

These tasks will automatically run after successful upload to any host.

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

Destinations

ShareX supports the following destinations.

Image uploaders

Text uploaders

File uploaders

URL shorteners

URL sharing services

Tools

Productivity tools to make certain tasks more efficient.

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