ShareX 20.1.0

ShareX lets you screenshot, record, edit, and share anywhere with extensive post-capture actions.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · May 6, 2026 08:32 EDT with 0 comments

ShareX

ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 80 different file hosting services such as Imgur, FTP, Dropbox, Mega and Pastebin.

User can select any or all of these tasks to be automatically run after each screen capture:

Add image effects: User can choose from over 37 image effects and apply multiple image effects and apply them to an image.
Add watermark: Adds customizable text/image watermark to image.
Annotate image: Using Greenshot image editor to annotate image.
Copy image to clipboard: Copies image to clipboard.
Print image: Be able to print images with printer device.
Save image to file: Saves image as file with user’s preferred image format.
Save image to file as: Shows file dialog before saving so user can select where to write file to.
Save thumbnail image to file: Saves resized image as file.
Copy file to clipboard: Copies image file to clipboard.
...and more.

Additional tools to make certain tasks more efficient:

Screen color picker: As the name suggests, allows user to retrieve the color from anywhere on the screen and provide values of Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and RGB.
Ruler: Allows user to get X, Y, width, height, distance and angle information on screen.
FTP client: Opens a basic FTP client user interface for the currently configured FTP account.
Hash check: Allows user to check/compare file hash values.
Index folder: Allows user to share the index of a folder contents by uploading the index of the selected folder as text, html or xml.
Image editor: Based on Greenshot image editor. It offers functions such as ability to add annotations, highlighting or obfuscations to the screenshot.
Image effects: Allows to apply over 37 different image effects with their own settings to image. Edited images can be saved in PNG or other formats.
Monitor test: Allows user to render different colors on the screen which provides user the opportunity to test for bleeding and dead pixels on LCD monitors.
DNS changer: Allows user to quickly change computer DNS settings with popular DNS servers such as Google DNS.
QR code: Open QR code window which user can enter text to get QR code of it. User can copy QR code image to user’s clipboard or save as file.
Tweet message: Allows user to post message to Twitter.

ShareX 20.1.0 changelog:

Image editor improvements

Added an “Image Editor Selector” dialog that appears the first time the user uses the editor. It lets users choose their preferred editor and makes it clear they can change it anytime. ShareX
Improved high DPI support.
Added support for Ctrl + Enter keybind to insert new lines in text and speech balloon tools.
Added "Font family" option to text and speech balloon tools.

Added "Arrow style" option to the arrow tool.

Classic: Similar style to the Legacy arrow tool; allows curving the arrow using the middle node.
Modern: Bigger, modern-looking arrow but does not allow curving.
Also added curving support to the line tool.

Added "Insert image" dialog for when the user pastes or drags and drops an image; allows these actions:

Insert image in the center.
Insert image below.
Insert image on the right side.
Added "Quick crop" option; it lets the user crop quickly similar to the Legacy Image Editor. This option is enabled by default.
Swapped Ctrl + Shift + C keybind with Ctrl + C. Pressing Ctrl + C now copies the image instead of copying the shape.
Freehand tool no longer allows selection, letting the user draw easily without selecting previous drawings. The Select tool still allows selecting.
"Save image" button is now usable even when the image file has not been saved previously.

Other changes