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 many supported destinations you can choose from.

Features

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No advertisements
  • Lightweight
  • Over 17 years of active development
  • Trusted by big companies
  • Designed for power users
  • Quick screen capture sharing
  • Easy GIF recording
  • Supports over 80 destinations
  • Advanced custom uploader support
  • Customizable workflow system

Capture methods

  • 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
  • Auto capture

After capture tasks

  • Show quick task menu
  • Show "After capture" window
  • Beautify image
  • Add image effects
  • Open in image editor
  • Copy image to clipboard
  • Pin to screen
  • 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
  • Scan QR code
  • Recognize text (OCR)
  • Show "Before upload" window
  • Upload image to host
  • Delete file locally

What's New

  • Scrolling capture improvements:
  • Automatically ignores 50px from the bottom during scrolling captures, useful for cases like horizontal scrollbars at the bottom.
  • Added an "Auto ignore bottom edge" option, which compares two images to identify static parts at the bottom, in addition to the default 50px.
  • Added a "Copy" button to the scrolling capture window.
  • Added notification sound to certain actions: ShareX
  • Screen recording stop/pause/abort actions.
  • Scrolling capture action.
  • "Pin to screen" tool.
  • "Screen color picker" tool.
  • "Borderless window" tool.
  • Browser extension action.
  • Silent OCR action.
  • "Disable/Enable hotkeys" action.
  • Added "Play sound after action is completed" option.
  • Added "Use custom action completed sound" option.
  • Removed toast notification from silent OCR action.
  • Removed "Disable notifications" option.
  • Added Arabic language support. OthmanAliModaes
  • When "DisableUpload" registry is set, hide upload related items in the main window.
  • Save tasks to history regardless of failed or stopped upload.
  • Allow restoring borderless window in "Borderless window" tool.
  • Added "Make active window borderless" hotkey.
  • Added "Make active window top most" hotkey.
  • Added "Pin to screen (Close all)" hotkey.
  • Removed YouTube icon because Google does not allow us to use a 16x16 size logo.
  • Removed Google Photos image uploader. (Reason: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-photos-picker-api-launch-and-library-api-updates/)
  • Removed adf.ly URL shortener.
  • Removed backward compatibility for .sxcu files generated before ShareX 12.4.0.