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An open-source alternative to Snagit

ShareX is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Snagit. It is images software with 40.5K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

ShareX

Images

Capture, mark up and share screenshots and recordings on Windows.

ShareX is for people who take a lot of screenshots and want to do more with them than paste them. It combines capture, editing, uploading and small utilities in one desktop app, with no account and no adverts. It runs on Windows only, so it suits teams whose staff work on Windows PCs.

  • Captures regions, windows, monitors, scrolling pages, video and GIFs on Windows.
  • Built-in editor adds arrows, text, step numbers, blur and pixelation.
  • Uploads results to many destinations, including custom uploaders.

What people use it for

Annotate a screenshot for a bug report

Press the region capture hotkey and select the part of the screen you need. Mark it up with arrows, rectangles, text and step numbers, and hide private details with blur or pixelate. Set the after-capture task to copy the image to the clipboard so it is ready to paste into a ticket.

Share a screenshot link with one keystroke

Choose an upload destination, or follow the guides for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or Cloudflare R2 to use storage your company controls. Set after-upload tasks to shorten the URL and copy it to the clipboard. One hotkey then captures, uploads and leaves a link ready to paste.

Record a short clip or GIF of a problem

Use screen recording or GIF recording to capture a short sequence of steps on screen. Trim the result with the built-in video trimmer or animated GIF trimmer. Save it locally or upload it like any other capture.

40.5K starsGPL-3.0C#Latest release Jul 2026Website ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for ShareX.

  • Does not meet: Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: GPL-3.0 (copyleft)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: GPL-3.0 (copyleft)
  • Does not meet: Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Jul 3, 2026 (Jul 2026)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in C#Main language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

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