Monosnap vs ShareX
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Monosnap
Screenshot and screen recording tool with its own cloud storage
Where they differ
- Monosnap starts at $2.5 per month, billed yearly; $3 billed monthly. ShareX is free.
- Only Monosnap lists a macOS app.
- Only Monosnap lists a browser extension.
- ShareX is open source, according to its own site.
At a glance
| Monosnap | ShareX | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $2.5 per month, billed yearly; $3 billed monthly | Free |
| Free plan | Free plan, for personal and family use only: unlimited screenshots, 5 minutes of video recording, 2 GB of Monosnap storage, 100 MB per upload, and 30 days of access to the cloud integrations. | The whole app is free and open source, with no advertisements and no account. The team says donations are its only source of income. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Monosnap Inc. | ShareX Team |
| Price read from | monosnap.ai | getsharex.com |
| Checked | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Monosnap
- Annotated screenshots with arrows, text and blur on Mac or Windows
- People who keep captures in their own Dropbox, S3 or FTP storage
- Home users who need screenshots and short clips at no cost
ShareX
- Windows users who capture, annotate and share screenshots many times a day
- People who upload captures to their own storage or a self-hosted service
- Recording short clips or GIFs for bug reports and documentation
Worth knowing
Monosnap
- The Free and Non-Commercial plans are for personal use only; any commercial use needs the Commercial plan.
- Free accounts are limited to 5 minutes of video recording, 2 GB of storage and 100 MB per upload, and lose the cloud integrations after 30 days.
- Mac App Store purchases are priced separately, at $4.49 a month or $44.99 a year for the non-commercial version.
- Apps are offered for Mac, Windows and Chrome only; no Linux or mobile app is listed.
ShareX
- Windows only: the site describes it as a screenshot tool for Windows, with downloads on the website, GitHub, Microsoft Store and Steam.
- Files are uploaded to third-party services the user chooses and configures, so each destination's own terms and privacy policy apply.
- OCR can only use the recognizer languages installed in Windows.
- The docs say scrolling capture can fail or produce inaccurate results on pages with static, animated or hover-triggered elements.
Key features
Monosnap
- Screenshot capture
- Captures the full screen, part of it or a selected window, with an 8x magnifier for exact crop edges, customizable hotkeys and delayed screenshots.
- Annotation editor
- Highlights details with a pen, text, arrows and shapes and blurs private information. A capture can also be opened in an external editor.
- Video and GIF recording
- Records screencasts and GIFs and can highlight details while recording. The Free plan allows 5 minutes of video; paid plans are unlimited.
- Monosnap storage and short links
- Uploads a capture or any dropped file to Monosnap's cloud and returns a short link. Storage is 2 GB on Free and starts at 10 GB on paid plans.
- External storage integrations
- Paid plans can send captures to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, Yandex.Disk, Amazon S3, FTP, sFTP or WebDAV. Free accounts get this for 30 days.
- Team accounts and private links
- The Commercial plan adds a team account and private links. Enterprise adds single sign-on, advanced access control and central settings control.
ShareX
- Capture methods
- Captures the full screen, the active window or monitor, a drawn region, the last or a custom region, or a scrolling page, and has an auto capture mode.
- Screen recording and GIFs
- Records the screen as video or as an animated GIF. Bundled tools include a video converter, a video trimmer and an animated GIF trimmer.
- Annotation and image editor
- Region capture and the built-in editor add arrows, text, step numbers, highlights and speech balloons, and hide details with blur, pixelate or a smart eraser.
- After-capture and after-upload tasks
- Each capture can run a set chain of tasks: copy to the clipboard, save to a file, open in the editor, run an action, upload, then shorten or copy the resulting URL.
- Uploads and custom uploaders
- Uploads images, text, files, folders and URLs to a chosen destination. Custom uploaders, shared as .sxcu files, send uploads to services that are not built in.
- OCR and other tools
- OCR uses the engine included with Windows and runs locally. Other tools include a color picker, ruler, QR code scanner, hash checker and pin to screen.
Plans
Monosnap
Free$0
Personal and family use only: unlimited screenshots, 5 minutes of video recording, 2 GB of storage and a 100 MB limit per uploaded file.
Non-Commercial$2.5
per month, billed yearly; $3 billed monthly
Still personal use only: unlimited video recording, 10 GB or more of storage, a 2 GB upload limit and integrations with external cloud services.
Commercial$5
per user / month, billed yearly; $10 billed monthly
Licensed for commercial use, with a team account, private links, 10 GB or more of storage per member and the cloud integrations.
EnterpriseCustom
Single sign-on, advanced access control, settings control, a tailored SLA and custom contracts and invoicing, arranged through sales.
ShareX
ShareX$0
The complete app as a setup or portable download, or from the Microsoft Store or Steam. Open source under the GPL-3.0 license.
Ways to pay less
Monosnap
- Annual discount
Save up to 50% with yearly billing
The pricing page lists Non-Commercial at $2.5 a month billed yearly against $3 monthly (16% off), and Commercial at $5 against $10 (50% off).
- Lifetime license
Lifetime non-commercial license for $99.99
The Mac App Store listing offers the paid non-commercial version as a lifetime purchase for $99.99, alongside monthly and yearly subscriptions.
ShareX
No public discounts listed.
