ShareX

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ShareX
Developer(s) ShareX Team
Initial release22 August 2007;17 years ago (2007-08-22) [1]
Stable release
16.1.0 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 9 May 2024
Repository github.com/ShareX/ShareX
Written in C#
Operating system Windows 7 SP1 or later
Platform .NET Framework 4.8
Available in13 languages
List of languages
English, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Type Screenshot software, screencast software, raster graphics editor, file verifier
License GNU GPLv3
Website getsharex.com

ShareX is a free and open-source Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool software for Windows. It is published under the GNU General Public License. The project's source code is hosted on GitHub. [3] It is also available on the Microsoft Store [4] and Steam. [5]

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ShareX Benefits

Features

Screenshots

ShareX can be used to capture full screen or partial screenshots (which can be exported into various image formats), such as rectangle capture and window capture. It can also record animated GIF files and video using FFmpeg.

An included image editor lets users annotate captured screenshots, or modify them with borders, image effects, watermarks, etc. It is also possible to use the editor to draw on top of the windows or desktop before taking the screenshot.

Sharing

After capture, a screenshot can be automatically exported as an image file, email attachment, exported to a printer, to the clipboard, or uploaded to a remote host via FTP. Many popular image and cloud hosting services support ShareX integration, and some offer scripts to automatically upload using an account. If the image is uploaded to a remote host, the URL generated by it can be copied to the clipboard.

Dragging other file types into the program will upload them to a destination based on type, such as a text file being saved to Pastebin and a ZIP file saved to Dropbox.

Other tools

There are a variety of desktop image capabilities including screen color picker and selector, checksum tool (hash check), on-screen ruler, image combiner, thumbnails for images and video, and many more.

The program also includes some basic automation. For example, taking a screenshot, adding a border and watermark, and then saving to a specific folder.

Development

Work on a project called ZScreen began in 2007, hosted on SourceForge [1] and moved to Google Code in 2008. [6] In 2010, a parallel project called ZUploader was started to rewrite ZScreen's core from scratch. [7] In 2012, all of ZScreen's features had been ported to ZUploader which was subsequently repackaged and released as ShareX. [8] In 2013, the project was moved to GitHub due to Google Code dropping support for hosting downloads. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "ZScreen 1.0 has been released". ShareX. 22 August 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Release 16.1.0". 9 May 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "ShareX/ShareX". GitHub . Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "ShareX - Microsoft Apps". Microsoft Store. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  5. ↑ "ShareX on Steam". Steam. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "ZScreen on Google Code". Archived from the original on 13 February 2009.
  7. ↑ "ZScreen releases". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Active development has been ceased for ZScreen and ZUploader in favour of ShareX". Archived from the original on 10 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "We have a new web site getsharex.com and we have also moved to GitHub". Archived from the original on 22 December 2014.
  10. ↑ Wyciślik-Wilson, Sofia (31 January 2020). "ShareX review" . Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  11. ↑ Baxter, Daryl (20 July 2021). "The best free screen recorders in 2021" . Retrieved 25 July 2021.
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