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.
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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
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
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
• Video thumbnailer
• FTP client
• Tweet message
• Monitor test
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
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
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
• Video thumbnailer
• FTP client
• Tweet message
• Monitor test
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Features Vote on or suggest new features
- Screen recording
- Capture Video
- Customizable
- Screenshot Tools
- Screenshot OCR
- Built-in Image editor
- Ad-free
- Share screenshots
- Record videos
- Image Annotations
- Portable
- Live video recording
- Automatic upload
- Scrolling Capture
- Edit screenshots
- Image Editing
- Upload directly to Imgur
- Share Videos
- Video upload
- Upload directly to Dropbox
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Photos & Graphics • Video & Movies • Backup & Sync • File Sharing • Social & CommunicationsPlatform details
Windows: .NET Framework 4.0
Firefox: 57+
Tags
- Image Hosting
- File Upload
- share-links
- hash-checker
- amazon-s3
- Create Animated GIFs
- FTP
- ftp-upload
- video-thumbnailer
- Color Picker
- Screen Casting
- qr-code
- website-screenshot
- screen-ruler
- upload-screenshot
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- Average rating of 4.1
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View allShareX was added to AlternativeTo by mcored on Dec 28, 2010 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2021. ShareX is sometimes referred to as ZUploader.
Wow this tool is really awesome. I was looking for a replacement for greenshot, which couldnt place 2 images side by side for comparison. This tool not only does that, its like instant in one click. The amount of features is awesome! Some users were saying to get lightshot because they found that ShareX was hard to configure. I didnt experience that at all. Everything is pre-configured in a way that works well for me. Another thing that really sells this program for me is that its Open Source. You can view the link to the source right on the front page. Lightshot however is not open source, and nowhere did i find a link that would indicate how they are making money, if its closed source. Makes me wary.
ShareX is basically a greenshot image editor with a backend interface that supports gifs and advanced image host options
I've tried almost every other similar program recommended on "alternatives" and shareX is by far vastly superior to anything out there
only for windows though
EDIT As of November 29th 2017 the best version is 11.6, anything past that isn't greenshot editor its shareX image editor.
EDIT^2
ShareX is good as a universal Lazy Uploader. If you ever get asked to upload something, just dump an image URL generated by shareX like so:
Works on everything, same number of steps everytime. No need to dig around for local file paths. Useful for adding images and gifs to alternativeto.com, stackoverflow, fiverr, wordpress, any internet site, any windows desktop application, etc etc. Just find some image on your screen, crop/annotate/upload, paste URL in any file uploader.
Imgur works best as an image host, if you want more security look into amazons3
[Edited by Kagerjay, November 29]
there is no linux version for this application and all other alternatives on linux are not even close to ease of use and feature set. for now my recommendation is screencloud for linux users.
Everyone wishes there was a Linux alterantive... maybe one day!
Reply written over 3 years ago
As a Linux noob, I request some Linux geek, to compile the open source available to run on Linux. If I knew how to do it, I'd have done it already.
Reply written 3 months ago
Like Greenshot but has video recording as well. Excellent! Not for people who don't know their way around computers. The setup for imgur uploading is pretty easy for anyone who uses computers frequently, though. Has a lot of hidden features if you know how to use them. Just google tutorials online and you should fine them
I used this app for about 3 months. I had been using Greenshot which lacks a scrolling capture capability. ShareX has scrolling capture, and so much more.
However I ultimately decided to go back to Greenshot for all my needs and use ShareX for those few times I require a scrolling screen cap.
The primary reason - er, actually, the only reason - is that ShareX's settings are overly complex (IMHO). I use multiple devices and need to install (and configure and maintain) most of the same apps across all of them. I found it very challenging to recall how to set my favorite customizations each time I install the app on a new device.
... of course, I could create my own cheat-sheet with notes about how I prefer to configure this app. In fact, I even started doing just that. But I found my notes to be incorrect about many of ShareX's features. After 3 months of very regular use (I take screenshots to document my work on a daily basis) - I still could not reliably remember the basic procedures to configure and use this app.
I realized either I was feeble minded, or the app was too complex. I am prepared to argue the latter is much closer to reality than the former (my wife is equally prepared to argue the opposite)
Ultimately, I decided this app will not be my one-and-only screencap app. Its configuration is overly complex, especially for a user who owns many devices and does not have the time or patience to keep relearning how to tweak all desired user-custumizations.
I consider myself a power user on both Windows and Linux. I couldn't venture to guess the number of apps I use on a daily basis - it certainly is in the dozens, and, over time, I've become a power user of countless apps of various types.
The usage of this app, once it is set up the way you desire, is quite simple, intuitive and feature-rich. Its biggest challenge is to make configuration and tweaking much more straightforward for the user.