ShareX 20.2.0 - 2026-05-22$$$Image editor improvements:$$$Added I Image annotation tool.$$$Added new arrow styles:$$$Double$$$Basic$$$Line$$$Added previews for arrow styles.$$$Added Starting number option to Step annotation tool.$$$Added Ctrl + Shift + P Print image button to the bottom toolbar.$$$Drawing can now start outside the canvas and continue inside it.$$$Added Options button to File menu with the following settings:$$$Follow system theme$$$Theme$$$Follow system accent color$$$Accent color ShareX$$$Remember window state$$$Show exit confirmation$$$Zoom to fit on open$$$Quick crop$$$Auto close editor on task$$$Auto copy image to clipboard$$$Show insert image dialog$$$Removed Task settings -> Tools -> Image editor tab; since these options are now available directly inside the image editor.$$$Moved Use legacy image editor option to Task settings -> Tools tab.$$$Added support for panning the canvas with Middle click while drawing or cropping; making it easier to work with areas larger than the screen.$$$The insert image dialog now places images at the center of the currently visible area instead of the center of the canvas.$$$Update FFmpeg to 8.1.

ShareX 20.1.0 - 2026-05-06$$$Image editor improvements:$$$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. ShareX$$$Classic: Similar style to the Legacy arrow tool; allows curving the arrow using the middle node.$$$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.$$$Save image button is now usable even when the image file has not been saved previously.$$$Notification click action Open link now also opens files as a fallback.$$$Recent links now also support opening files.

ShareX 20.1.0 - 2026-05-06$$$Image editor improvements:$$$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. ShareX$$$Classic: Similar style to the Legacy arrow tool; allows curving the arrow using the middle node.$$$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.$$$Save image button is now usable even when the image file has not been saved previously.$$$Notification click action Open link now also opens files as a fallback.$$$Recent links now also support opening files.

ShareX 19.0.2 - 2026-01-28$$$Bug fixes.

ShareX 19.0.2 - 2026-01-28$$$Bug fixes.

ShareX 18.0.1 - 2025-08-19$$$Bug fixes

ShareX 18.0.1 - 2025-08-19$$$Bug fixes

Added Metadata tool to view file metadata and strip non-essential metadata from media files. ShareX$$$Added Metadata tool hotkey.$$$Added a custom scrollbar to ShareXs main window to support the dark theme. ShareX$$$Update FFmpeg to 7.1.$$$Improved H.265 support for Apple products.$$$Added icons to Workflows menu items.$$$Added command line arguments:$$$-PinToScreen image file path$$$-PinToScreenFromFile image file path$$$-VideoConverter video file path$$$-OCR image file path$$$-QRCode image file path$$$-HashCheck file path$$$-FileUpload file path$$$-Metadata file path$$$-StripMetadata file path$$$Added notification sound to Hash checker tool.$$$Removed DNS changer tool.$$$Allow moving pinned images with arrow keys.$$$Removed Use custom theme option; it is now always enabled.

Added Metadata tool to view file metadata and strip non-essential metadata from media files. ShareX$$$Added Metadata tool hotkey.$$$Added a custom scrollbar to ShareXs main window to support the dark theme. ShareX$$$Update FFmpeg to 7.1.$$$Improved H.265 support for Apple products.$$$Added icons to Workflows menu items.$$$Added command line arguments:$$$-PinToScreen image file path$$$-PinToScreenFromFile image file path$$$-VideoConverter video file path$$$-OCR image file path$$$-QRCode image file path$$$-HashCheck file path$$$-FileUpload file path$$$-Metadata file path$$$-StripMetadata file path$$$Added notification sound to Hash checker tool.$$$Removed DNS changer tool.$$$Allow moving pinned images with arrow keys.$$$Removed Use custom theme option; it is now always enabled.

ShareX 17.0.0 - 2025-01-08$$$Scrolling capture improvements:$$$Automatically ignores 50px from the bottom during scrolling captures; useful for cases like horizontal scrollbars at the bottom.$$$Added an Auto ignore bottom edge option; which compares two images to identify static parts at the bottom; in addition to the default 50px.$$$Added a Copy button to the scrolling capture window.$$$Added notification sound to certain actions: ShareX$$$Screen recording stop/pause/abort actions.$$$Scrolling capture action.$$$Pin to screen tool.$$$Screen color picker tool.$$$Borderless window tool.$$$Browser extension action.$$$Silent OCR action.$$$Disable/Enable hotkeys action.$$$Added Play sound after action is completed option.$$$Added Use custom action completed sound option.$$$Removed toast notification from silent OCR action.$$$Removed Disable notifications option.$$$Added Arabic language support. OthmanAliModaes$$$When DisableUpload registry is set; hide upload related items in the main window.$$$Save tasks to history regardless of failed or stopped upload.$$$Allow restoring borderless window in Borderless window tool.$$$Added Make active window borderless hotkey.$$$Added Make active window top most hotkey.$$$Added Pin to screen (Close all) hotkey.$$$Removed YouTube icon because Google does not allow us to use a 16x16 size logo.$$$Removed Google Photos image uploader. (Reason: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-photos-picker-api-launch-and-library-api-updates/)$$$Removed adf.ly URL shortener.$$$Removed backward compatibility for .sxcu files generated before ShareX 12.4.0. ShareX

ShareX 16.1.0 - 2024-05-09$$$Added an Update channel option to the Application settings window with the following options:$$$Release$$$Pre-release$$$Dev$$$Added Background dim strength region capture option.$$$Scrolling capture improvements:$$$Added scrolling capture status indicator.$$$Scrolling capture automatically stops if the first image combine attempt fails.$$$Improved image combining performance.$$$Mouse wheel input is now ignored within the scrolling capture region.$$$Added help button to scrolling capture window; which opens this page: https://getsharex.com/docs/scrolling-screenshot$$$Update FFmpeg to version 7.0.$$$Previously; releasing the Escape key would close the active window. Now; it will also check if the Escape key was initially pressed in the active window as well.$$$Improved task icon detection in Quick task menu.$$$Added Cut out background color option for image editor Cut out tool. flmbray$$$Browser extension host manifest files are now stored in app folder instead of Documents\ShareX\Tools folder.$$$Improved update downloader progress text.$$$Added Enable browser extension support option to setup.$$$Google has forced us to use a more restrictive API scope (/auth/drive.file) for Google Drive; which does not allow us to see files or folders anymore. Because of this; we cannot provide folder listing and selection support anymore.$$$However; there is a workaround. You can navigate to the Google Drive website in your browser; open the folder you want to upload to; and then copy the folder ID from the browsers address bar to Folder ID textbox.

ShareX 15.0.0 - 2023-01-18$$$Our GitHub Sponsors profile is live! You can sponsor us to support the development of the ShareX project. Thanks to GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund; we are receiving double the amount of donations; therefore GitHub Sponsors is the best way to support us!$$$$$$Added new Dark theme; and renamed previous theme to Night*$$$If you did not add a new theme manually then ShareX will assume theme settings are default and add the new theme automatically; otherwise you must reset theme settings to default to get it$$$Updated our website theme to fit to new ShareX dark theme$$$Added Pin to screen tool*$$$Available methods to use the tool*:$$$Tools menu ? Pin to screen$$$Main window right click context menu ? Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)$$$History/Image history window right click context menu ? Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)$$$After capture tasks ? Pin to screen$$$Toast notification click action option ? Pin to screen$$$Create a hotkey$$$Available hotkeys that users can create:$$$Tools ? Pin to screen$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From screen)$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From clipboard)$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From file)$$$Pin to screen keybinds:$$$Hold left click Move image$$$Right click / Escape Close image$$$Middle click Reset image$$$Double click Minimize image$$$Mouse wheel / + - Change image scale$$$Ctrl + Mouse wheel / Ctrl + + - Change image opacity$$$Ctrl + C Copy image$$$Hotkey settings window visual improvements$$$Allow changing hotkey tasks without opening task settings window; instead dropdown menu could be used; which also gonna make creating new hotkeys easier*$$$Hotkeys which have their task settings overridden by the user are now indicated by * character at the end of hotkey task name$$$Added support to quickly combine images in main window by drag and dropping thumbnails to top of each other$$$Use ShareX theme in screen recording overlay$$$Added Pause support to screen recording*$$$Added Pause screen recording hotkey$$$Added support to move recording region while recording is paused*$$$All ShareX builds now include FFmpeg 5.1 64-bit built-in; 32-bit OS users can override FFmpeg path to use their own FFmpeg binaries$$$Removed FFmpeg download button because it is not necessary anymore$$$Added Freehand arrow annotation tool$$$Added Cut out tool to image editor (by @nielsmh)$$$Available cut out effects:$$$No effect$$$Sawtooth$$$Torn edges$$$Wave$$$X keybind can be used to select the tool$$$While annotating when Ctrl key is hold also disable selection of resize nodes$$$Increase text annotation maximum font size to 300 from 100$$$Added Wave edge image effect (by @nielsmh)$$$Uploader configurations now assume https:// by default if prefix is missing from URL entered by user$$$When downloading file to reupload; ShareX will request the file name from the server instead of parsing it from URL; this feature is mainly used with ShareX browser extensions because extension gives URL to ShareX which then downloads the file from URL to reupload it$$$Added DisableLogging registry setting (Disables debug log file saving)$$$If system admin disabled upload through registry then on first ShareX run disable after capture upload option too$$$Using GitHub Actions to release builds now instead of AppVeyor$$$Install dev build button now shows update message box and downloads the dev builds from ShareX/DevBuilds repository$$$In auto update message box if No button is pressed then disable auto update check until ShareX is restarted$$$Allow closing OCR window with Esc key$$$In Hash check window allow dragging file to second file path textbox$$$Added Wrap after option and image count label to Image combiner tool$$$Include uploader name in upload error notifications$$$Implemented OAuth loopback IP address flow for Google Drive; Google Photos; Google Cloud Storage and YouTube because the rest of authentication methods are deprecated for desktop apps by Google$$$ShareX 14.1.0 - 2022-07-15$$$Added Polish language support (by @R

Added Polish language support (by @RikoDEV)$$$OCR improvements:$$$OCR window layout changes$$$Added OCR help button near languages option which opens the OCR help page; so users can see how to install more OCR languages$$$Sort OCR languages alphabetically$$$Remove spaces between words in CJK languages$$$Reverse order of words in RTL languages$$$Added single line option$$$After OCR automatically select result textbox$$$Added new OCR service links:$$$Google Images$$$DuckDuckGo$$$DeepL$$$Added copy all button$$$Added input parameter support to custom uploader parse functions:$$${json:input|jsonPath}$$${xml:input|xpath}$$${regex:input|pattern|group}$$$Dont show notification window in Alt + Tab menu$$$Support portable dev build update