ShareX

ShareX 21.0.0

Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool

  • By ShareX Team
  • Open Source
  • Updated Jul 3, 2026
Download for Windows

About ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

What's new in 21.0.0

  • Added "Background remover" tool.
  • Added "Image Comparer" tool.
  • All 23 languages are 100% translated, except for the Avalonia UI windows, which are not localizable yet.
  • Image editor improvements:
  • Added a "Customize toolbar" button to the Options dialog. It lets you fully customize the toolbar, including showing or hiding specific tools, reordering them, and changing their hotkeys.
  • Added "Pick color from screen" button to color picker.
  • Added image editor notifications.
  • Added "Show notifications" option.
  • Added "K Cursor" annotation tool.
  • Added "Blur amount" option for Spotlight tool.
  • Double clicking on emoji now opens the Emoji Picker dialog.
  • Double clicking on image now opens the File Picker dialog.
  • Added "Ctrl + H Hide/Show toolbars" button to context menu.
  • Added "Step type" option for Step tool, with this options:
  • 1, 2, 3
  • A, B, C
  • a, b, c
  • I, II, III
  • i, ii, iii
  • Added "Horizontal alignment" option to Text & Speech Balloon annotation tools, with this options:
  • Left
  • Center
  • Right
  • Added "Toggle bold" option to Speech Balloon & Step annotation tools.
  • Added "Toggle italic" option to Speech Balloon annotation tool.
  • Added "Toggle tail" option for Speech Balloon & Step annotation tools.
  • On exit confirmation dialog "Yes" button is automatically focused now.
  • Added "Border style" option to Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Freehand annotation tools, these are the options:
  • Solid
  • Dash
  • Dot
  • Dash Dot
  • Dash Dot Dot
  • Added rotation support to these annotation tools:
  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Speech Balloon
  • Highlight
  • Blur
  • Pixelate
  • Magnify
  • Holding Ctrl now disables shape selection, allowing you to draw a shape on top of another shape.
  • Holding Ctrl while creating a shape now allows you to move it.
  • Added a "Favorite Image Effects" action when right clicking the Image Effects button.
  • Added "Toggle ellipse shape" option to Magnify & Spotlight tools.
  • In the Background tool, gradient colors can now be edited using the color picker.
  • Added “Shadow options” menu, when right clicking the "Toggle shadow" button, these are the options:
  • Color
  • Blur
  • Opacity
  • Offset X
  • Offset Y
  • Added easter egg.
  • Ignore NVIDIA GeForce Overlay in region capture selection.

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Technical details

PublisherShareX Team
Version21.0.0
Release date2026-07-03
LicenseGPL-3.0
Installer typeinno
Architecturex64
Package IDShareX.ShareX

Links & install command

Install ShareX from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=ShareX.ShareX -e

annotateannotationcapturecolor-pickergifocrrecordrecorderregion-capturescreen-capturescreen-recorderscreenshotshareupload

Older versions

  • 20.2.0
  • 20.1.0
  • 20.0.4
  • 19.0.2
  • 18.0.1
  • 17.1.0
  • 17.0.0
  • 16.1.0
  • 16.0.1