ShareX 16.0.0 was released this week. The latest version of the open source screen capturing, recording, and sharing program for comes with a huge list of changes and improvements.
ShareX is a popular option when it comes to recording or capturing the screen on Windows. It supports a ton of capturing methods, from fullscreen and region to scrolling captures and even automated captures.
The application’s post-capturing options are equally impressive. These include options to edit images locally, use OCR for text detection, and upload the captures to the Internet. ShareX is a power-users tool.
Note: the release is already available on GitHub, but not on the official website.
ShareX 16.0.0
The latest version of ShareX comes with a long list of changes. Notable is that the developers have rewritten the application’s scrolling capture mode from scratch to improve it.
This allows users to capture an entire website or application, and not just the visible part.
The improved capturing mode has an entirely new algorithm that provides better detection and combining accuracy. It has a fallback option to the old algorithm if it fails. Some options were removed and the new algorithm tries to automate the process as much as possible to make things simpler and easier to use.
The entire process of combining images should perform better on user systems as well.
Scrolling capture has a few new options as well. It is now possible to delay the start, set the scroll delay and amount, and use automatic uploading or saving.
The new feature works well with Windows 11’s new super resolution feature.
Other changes in the release
Here is a list of other changes in the release:
- Video editor improvements — added AV1, NVENC H.264 & HEVC, QuickSync H.264 & HEVC, and AMF H.264 & HEVC encoders. There is a new “use bitrate” option to set a custom bitrate and to skip using the audio encoder for the files GIF, WEBP, PNG, or APNG.
- Image editor — supports “proper” undo and redo now. Also new is a “load image from URL” button and the keyboard shortcut CTRL-C is now used to copy the image to the Clipboard.
- Image beautifier — New tool to apply image effects to captures. This includes shadows, padding and margin, or making changes to the background.
- Image effects — added several image effects to various sections, e.g., auto resize option to Shadow effects.
- OCR — improved upscaling of images before applying OCR.
Closing Words
ShareX is an excellent image capturing and recording tool. The new version improves the program in several key areas. While I still prefer PicPick, ShareX is clearly an excellent tool when it comes to recording or capturing screens on Windows devices.
Now You: which screen capturing software, if any, do you use?