ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 80 different file hosting services such as Imgur, FTP, Dropbox, Mega and Pastebin.
User can select any or all of these tasks to be automatically run after each screen capture:
- Add image effects: User can choose from over 37 image effects and apply multiple image effects and apply them to an image.
- Add watermark: Adds customizable text/image watermark to image.
- Annotate image: Using Greenshot image editor to annotate image.
- Copy image to clipboard: Copies image to clipboard.
- Print image: Be able to print images with printer device.
- Save image to file: Saves image as file with user’s preferred image format.
- Save image to file as: Shows file dialog before saving so user can select where to write file to.
- Save thumbnail image to file: Saves resized image as file.
- Copy file to clipboard: Copies image file to clipboard.
- ...and more.
Additional tools to make certain tasks more efficient:
- Screen color picker: As the name suggests, allows user to retrieve the color from anywhere on the screen and provide values of Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and RGB.
- Ruler: Allows user to get X, Y, width, height, distance and angle information on screen.
- FTP client: Opens a basic FTP client user interface for the currently configured FTP account.
- Hash check: Allows user to check/compare file hash values.
- Index folder: Allows user to share the index of a folder contents by uploading the index of the selected folder as text, html or xml.
- Image editor: Based on Greenshot image editor. It offers functions such as ability to add annotations, highlighting or obfuscations to the screenshot.
- Image effects: Allows to apply over 37 different image effects with their own settings to image. Edited images can be saved in PNG or other formats.
- Monitor test: Allows user to render different colors on the screen which provides user the opportunity to test for bleeding and dead pixels on LCD monitors.
- DNS changer: Allows user to quickly change computer DNS settings with popular DNS servers such as Google DNS.
- QR code: Open QR code window which user can enter text to get QR code of it. User can copy QR code image to user’s clipboard or save as file.
- Tweet message: Allows user to post message to Twitter.
ShareX 13.1.0 changelog:
- Added “Theme” tab to the Application settings window
- If “Use custom theme” option is enabled then you can select “Dark” or “Light” theme presets from dropdown menu or make your own custom theme
- If you only want the main window to have custom theme then you can uncheck “Apply custom theme to all windows” option to disable automatic theming of other windows
- Thumbnail view in main window now supports multi selection by holding Ctrl / Shift and selecting thumbnails
- Thumbnail view now supports key shortcuts, previously only available in list view
- Added thumbnail title location option to main window right click menu
- Added “Run action” sub menu to main window task right click menu
- Step annotation tool can now have a tail, which can be shown by dragging the resize node
- Added week of year pattern for file naming: %wy
- Added random emoji pattern for file naming: %remoji{10}
- Added URLEncodeIgnoreEmoji option to Application settings Advanced tab which is needed when using emojis in file name. Currently this is only supported in Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage uploaders
- Added Persian language support (by @pourmand1376)
- Added “Particles” image effect. For example, it can be used to add snowflakes to screenshots
- Removed random position option from image watermark because “Particles” image effect can be used for the same purpose
- Added multi color gradient support to border & background image effects
- Preview image in image effects window now resizes automatically to fill empty area
- Added social media buttons to bottom left of main window, such as Twitter and Discord
- Added “Image splitter” tool, which can be used for instance, to make giant emojis for Discord
- Added color name label to color picker tool
- Support special folder variables in “Actions” file paths, for example: %ProgramFiles%
- Added Opus as an option for FFmpeg audio codec (by @Scrxtchy)
- Added VP9 (WebM) encoding support to screen recording
- In “Export / Import” tab added “Settings” and “History” checkboxes to let users select what they want to export
- History is now stored as JSON instead of XML, XML history file will be automatically migrated to JSON history file on startup
- Screen recording encoding progress percentage is now available in tray icon tooltip
- History window now supports mass copying (by @C03)
- Added screen color picker support to color dialogs in region capture
- In QR code window, decode result links are now clickable
- In file exists window support Enter and Esc inputs
- Removed Google+ URL sharing service
Added “Video converter” tool, which supports encoding using these encoders:
- H.264 / x264
- H.265 / x265
- VP8 (WebM)
- VP9 (WebM)
- MPEG-4 / Xvid
- GIF
- WebP
- APNG
Download: ShareX 13.1.0 | Portable | ~7.0 MB (Open Source)
View: ShareX Home Page