ShareX 18.0.1

Open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them to your hard disk or instantly upload them to over 30 file hosting services.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Aug 19, 2025 11:56 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 18.0.1 changelog:

Upgraded the ShareX project from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 9.0.
.NET 9.0 is self-contained, so it does not need to be installed separately. However, as a result, the ShareX setup size will be around 100 MB. ShareX
Windows 7 is no longer supported, as .NET 9.0 officially supports only Windows 10 64-bit or higher.

Changes:

History & image history is now using SQLite database instead of JSON text.
History.json will be automatically migrated to History.db on ShareX startup.
Added "Import folder" support, allowing you to select a folder and import all image files into ShareX history.
Added "Favorite" button.
Added "Edit tag" button.
Added "Edit item" button.
Added "Rename file" button.
Added "Delete item" button. (Del)
Added "Delete file & item" button. (Shift + Del)
Removed more info button.
Added "Only show image files" option to image history.
Added "Show stats" button to image history.
Added icons to context menu.
Added quick QR code scan button to QR code tool.
Added notification sound to QR code scan.
Added "QR code (Scan region)" hotkey.
Support showing thumbnails for video files in main window.
Added play icon to video thumbnails.
Added custom icon for .sxcu and .sxie files.
Added "Scroll method" option to scrolling capture.
Added notification sound to copy actions.
Support file drag and drop in "Metadata" tool.
Added "Automatically hide desktop icons" option.
When showing main window if it is out of bounds then center the main window.
In main window moved "Destination settings" and "Custom uploader settings" buttons to parent menu.
About window design changes.
Added more links to about window.
Added "Delete file locally" toast click action.
Removed Twitter destination.
Removed Jira destination.