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ShareX

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Capture your screen, create GIFs, and record videos through this versatile solution that includes various other amenities: an OCR scanner, image uploader, URL shortener, and much more. #Share screenshot  #Share snapshot  #Upload screenshot  #Share  #Screenshot  #Snapshot  

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Third-party screen capture tools ought to have some additional features over a built-in solution to make them worth the price of admission. With the updated Snip & Sketch tool that comes with Windows, there’s understandably less of a need for casual users to venture into downloading other software.

Even so, if you’re looking to get more out of your screenshots, ShareX is a software that’ll likely come up in your recommendations. And no wonder: the program gives you a set of more advanced editing tools, an auto uploader, a photo and video editor, and much more. And it’s completely free.

Perhaps the most important thing about ShareX is that, even with so many features on board, it still manages to be as straightforward as can be. As such, if all you want to do is take screenshots whenever you need, and not use any of the additional features, this tool should serve you just as well.

Upon first boot-up, the program will inform you of the available hotkeys, all of which can be modified to your preference. When taking a screenshot, the tool can optionally upload it to Imgur, but other websites are available as well. Screen recording, too, can be carried out through the program.

You also have the opportunity to edit your screenshots prior to sharing. Various tools are available to make annotations easier, and you may also blur or pixelate certain parts of an image, highlight anything important, as well as apply filters for a different look, to name a few.

For anyone interested, an OCR feature is provided for convenience, which worked very well during my testing. You can also generate QR codes for your images, shorten their URLs once uploaded, and even use Google or Bing’s image search engines to look for matching or similar pictures.

In the interest of convenience, integration with various popular file hosting domains makes it possible to upload your content right from the app. The selection of available services is quite impressive, too: image, text, file uploaders, and URL shorteners are each grouped in their respective category.

Finding a color picker, ruler, and image editor in a screen capture tool isn’t exactly out of the ordinary. A monitor testing utility to troubleshoot display problems is certainly an unexpected, but welcome addition, yet ShareX doesn’t stop there.

You also get access to an image splitter and thumbnailer, as well as a video converter. A hash checking tool is also included to verify the integrity of any file of your system.

The inclusion of window manipulation tools is appreciated all the same, such that you can inspect a window’s information and force it in borderless mode.

ShareX is quite a doozy in my eyes, because it’s so much more than just a simple screenshotting tool. Even with all these functionalities, there’s no loss of focus in providing a capable screen capture tool. Did I mention that it includes a DNS changer?

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ShareX is part of these download collections: Image Capture, Make Screenshot

What's new in ShareX 16.0.1:

  • Screen recording improvements:
  • Update FFmpeg to version 6.1
  • Added ddagrab (Desktop Duplication API) support to screen recording*
  • If you have an NVIDIA GPU, it is recommended to use ddagrab with the NVENC video encoder together, as NVENC can access captured frames from the GPU directly
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ShareX 16.0.1

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  portable version
ShareX Portable
  runs on:
Windows 11
Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
  file size:
34.1 MB
  filename:
ShareX-16.0.1-setup.exe
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