ShareX supports many ways to capture or record your screen. The main capture methods are:
โข Fullscreen
โข Active window
โข Active monitor
โข Window menu
โข Monitor menu
โข Region
โข Region (Light)
โข Region (Transparent)
โข Last region
โข Custom region
โข Screen recording
โข Screen recording (GIF)
โข Scrolling capture
โข Webpage capture
โข Text capture (OCR)
โข 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:
โข Show quick task menu
โข Show “After capture” window
โข Add image effects / watermark
โข Annotate image
โข Copy image to clipboard
โข Print image
โข Save image to file
โข Save image to file as…
โข Save thumbnail image to file
โข Perform actions
โข Copy file to clipboard
โข Copy file path to clipboard
โข Show file in explorer
โข Recognize text (OCR)
โข Show “Before upload” window
โข Upload image to host
โข Delete file locally
For example, the captured image can be opened in image annotator and after that, the image can be automatically saved to the hard disk and uploaded to your destination of choice.
ShareX also comes with a few simple productivity tools:
โข Color picker
โข Screen color picker
โข Annotate image
โข Image effects
โข Hash check
โข DNS changer
โข QR code
โข Ruler
โข Directory indexer
โข Image combiner
โข Image thumbnailer
โข Video thumbnailer
โข FTP client
โข Tweet message
โข Monitor test
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