# ShareX

> Free, open-source screenshot and screen recording for Windows

ShareX is a free, open-source screen capture tool for Windows. It takes screenshots of a region, window, monitor or scrolling page, records the screen as video or GIF, and can pass each capture through a chain of tasks such as annotating, saving, uploading and copying the link. It also bundles utilities including OCR, a color picker and a ruler. The project has no ads, needs no account and is funded by donations.

- **Category:** Desktop Utilities
- **Made by:** ShareX Team (since 2007)
- **Website:** https://getsharex.com
- **Runs on:** Windows
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

ShareX is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **Free plan:** 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.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://getsharex.com/ on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ShareX before buying.

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

- 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.

## Works with

Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, YouTube, Google Translate, DeepL

**Tags:** Screenshots, Screen recording, Open source, File sharing

## Alternatives

- [Greenshot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/greenshot): Free, open-source screenshot tool for Windows with an editor. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenshot-vs-sharex)
- [Flameshot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/flameshot): Free, open-source screenshot tool with on-screen annotation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/flameshot-vs-sharex)
- [Camtasia Snagit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snagit): Screen capture and recording tool with annotation and step guides. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sharex-vs-snagit)
- [ScreenToGif](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screentogif): Free Windows recorder that turns screen captures into GIFs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/screentogif-vs-sharex)
- [Monosnap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monosnap): Screenshot and screen recording tool with its own cloud storage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/monosnap-vs-sharex)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://getsharex.com/
- https://getsharex.com/donate
- https://getsharex.com/privacy-policy
- https://getsharex.com/docs/ocr
- https://getsharex.com/docs/custom-uploader
- https://getsharex.com/docs/scrolling-screenshot
- https://getsharex.com/docs/pin-to-screen
- https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

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