WindowfolioShareX
by ShareX Team
Screenshots, screen recordings and GIFs, with annotation and one-click sharing.
What it does
ShareX captures a region, a window or the whole screen, then does whatever you set up next: open the editor to annotate, copy to the clipboard, save to a folder, or upload and copy the link. It also records video or GIFs, captures long scrolling pages and can pull text out of an image.
It is free and open source, with no watermark and no account. The trade-off is a dense settings window, but the defaults are sensible, so start there and change only what bothers you.
What it costs
Free
No watermark, no account, no paid tier.
Open source (GPL-3.0)
Where it runs
Windows 11
Windows 10
Arm PCsEmulated
x64 build; runs under emulation on Arm PCs.
How to get it
Install it from Terminal with winget, or download it from the official site.
PS>
winget install --id ShareX.ShareX -e
getsharex.com
Coming from a Mac?
Does the job of
CleanShot XShottr
Like CleanShot X, it does capture, annotation, recording and share links in one tool. Less polished, but free.
Good to know
- Windows 11 can send the Print Screen key to Snipping Tool. Turn that off in Settings › Accessibility › Keyboard if you want ShareX to have it.
- The first time you record video, ShareX offers to download FFmpeg, which it uses for encoding.
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