ShareX

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

Pricing: Free / Open Source

Link: ShareX

Last updated

The MSP KB is an open source resource by Ashley Cooper and Kelvin Tegelaar