ShareX 19.0 brings AI image analysis, region capture upgrades, new defaults, and more
ShareX 19.0 has been released, delivering substantial updates for Windows users of this free and open-source screenshot and screencast application. One key change is that automatic upload is now disabled by default for new installations, altering the workflow for users setting up ShareX for the first time.
Expanding its feature set, ShareX 19.0 introduces a new Analyze image tool powered by artificial intelligence. Users can access analysis from providers like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and OpenRouter, enabling advanced image insights directly within the app.
Building on these updates, ShareX now ships bundled with FFmpeg version 8.0, ensuring improved codec support and compatibility. The region capture feature set has also been enhanced: it now offers a Spotlight tool for focusing on image areas, displays a cross at the center of user-defined regions for better alignment, and makes region selection smoother overall.
Following these core enhancements, image history settings gain flexibility with new options to automatically load more images and adjust thumbnail height. Additionally, a new hotkey allows users to instantly stop auto capture operations. These updates are delivered alongside various other changes and other general improvements.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Free
- Open Source
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- ShareX 19.0.1 release notesShareX • Official source
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Thank you for hearing the requests about automatically uploading screenshots to the web. Coincidence no doubt I made a review of it right here on the ShareX page. Thanks for that ^^
I've never used the upload function, so that's a welcome chance in addition to the newer version of FFmpeg. While I'm "suffering" from AI fatigue, it's good that those tools are external, meaning that it needs to be configured. Which I won't, so I wouldn't have to worry.
AI for ShareX sounds good to me
Oh my god MORE AI? We don't want it! I don't need an AI tool on my desktop to tell me what I'm looking at.
Stuff like this is why people are switching to Linux.
People are switching to Linux?
In North America, about 5% of desktops use Linux now. And lots of governments in Europe are moving over to Linux for security reasons.
I looked up the data. Worldwide (since we should be including everybody, right?) and across all platforms, Linux went from a market share of 0.68% in 2009 to a market share of 2.03% in 2026. Yes, it's a threefold increase, but it's over seventeen years... It's hard to believe that it will ever be anything other than a niche operating system
I see worldwide Linux use at almost 4%, according to Stat Counter. It was less than 2% just 5 years ago. And people on an "unknown" desktop OS are at 16%.
Stop adding AI to tools, it's not enough that most "apps" nowadays are just electron browsers, I don't need my screenshot tool to have ai as well. I'm sticking to the old steam version which doesn't get updates and I'll look for cross platform alternatives, this is ridiculous now.