ShareX
Capture and record your screen for free
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Overview
ShareX is a free, open-source screen recording solution that makes it easy to capture anything on your computer screen.
With a variety of caption methods, you can record the full screen, active window, active monitor, window menu, or monitor menu. You also have the option to capture different regions of the screen, including a rectangle, ellipse, or freehand area. ShareX offers scrolling capture, text capture, and auto-capture as well.
ShareX also offers a variety of productivity tools you can use after you’ve captured a screenshot. Take advantage of some of the additional productivity tools that ShareX offers like color picker, screen color picker, image editor, QR code, ruler, image combiner, image splitter, image thumbnailer, video converter, and video thumbnailer.
ShareX supports over 80 destinations for your screen capture images and videos. For images, you can upload to Imgur, ImageShack, Flickr, Photobucket, Google Photos, Twitter, and more. For text, you can upload to Pastevin, Slexy, GitHub Gist, Teknik, uPaste, Hastebin, and more. File uploaders include Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, MediaFire, Hostr, JIRA, and many others.
ShareX also works with URL shorteners like bit.ly and tinyurl.com. Besides, you can share URLs through email, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more.
Key features
- Screen recording
- Scrolling, text, and auto-capture
- Region capture
- Variety of upload methods
- Customizable workflows
- Image editor and thumbnail creator
- Supports over 80 destinations