ShareX 17.1.0 + Portable + Repack

Jun 2, 2025
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 ShareX's 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.

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.

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 DocumentsShareXTools 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 browser's address bar to "Folder ID" textbox.

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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

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}
Don't show notification window in Alt + Tab menu
Support portable dev build update

Update our Twitter account link to new username @ShareX
Support screen capturing cursor with bigger pointer size
Added Romanian language support (by @Edward205)
Added zoom support to image editor (by @EricTetz)
Ctrl + Mouse wheel Zoom centered on cursor
Ctrl + + Zoom in
Ctrl + - Zoom out
Ctrl + 0 Reset zoom
Ctrl + Alt + 0 Zoom to fit
Added „Zoom to fit on open“ option
Added canvas color button to image editor canvas size window
Added „Restrict region capture and cursor within the active monitor“ option, which significantly improves the FPS of region capture for multi monitor owners by restricting region capture to active monitor only, so we highly recommend enabling this option if you own multiple monitors
Added FPS limit option for region capture/image editor, default value is 100, you can disable limit by setting value to 0
Allow 0 value for step annotation tool
OCR improvements:
Added offline OCR support (requires Windows 10 or newer version to work)
ShareX will show message box if OCR is unsupported in current operating system
Moved OCR button to Tools menu from Capture menu
Added „Scale factor“ option which resizes image input before applying OCR, which improves OCR results
Added customizable service links, by default these services available: Google Translate, Google Search, Bing
Added „Select region“ button to OCR window, which lets you do OCR from screen without reopening the tool
Fullscreen image preview improvements:
Support navigation using Left arrow/Right arrow keys, mouse wheel or by clicking navigation buttons at sides
Show file name, image size and image index at top
Also added it as „Image viewer“ tool
Added -ImageViewer "filePath" CLI command
Added hotkeys for image viewer and borderless window tools
History window improvements:
Use virtual mode in list which only populates visible part of the list so that way when user has significant amount of history entries startup time won’t be affected
Automatically search while typing
Automatically apply filter when value changed
Select first item after filtering
Removed max item count setting from history window because with virtual mode it is not necessary anymore
Moved advanced search panel to right side and added close button
Notification window improvements:
Added option to automatically hide notification window when screen capturing/recording so that way when multiple screenshots taken in quick successions then notification window won’t be visible in any of screenshots
Show only last notification instead of showing multiple notifications on top of each other
Added -hide_banner to all FFmpeg arguments
Increased toast window duration decimal places by 1
Improved save image error message to suggest user to check anti virus controlled folder access feature
Removed PortableApps support in favor of Portable builds at GitHub releases page
Use current theme in update message box and downloader window
Don’t show update message box for dev build install
Added bitrate option for x264 video encoder
Support FFmpeg 5.0 when refreshing device list
Custom uploader improvements:
Rewritten custom uploader syntax parser from scratch, now using { and } for syntax boundaries instead of $, that way syntax can be used recursively inside each other
Removed regex list, instead first parameter of regex function must be used for regex pattern, for example: {regex:target="_blank" href="(.+)"|1}
Removed parse response section because not necessary anymore with remove of regex list
ShareX is going to try its best to automatically migrate old custom uploaders to new syntax but there are a few things like regex syntax that cannot be auto migrated
Added custom uploader syntax test button near URL textbox
Use text upload window when doing custom uploader text upload test
Renamed Lithiio file uploader to LobFile, update LobFile API to v3
Added „Pin to top“ button to Inspect window tool (by @leumasme)
In image effects window, allow configuring custom name for each effects
Removed Streamable anonymous upload option because not supported by Streamable anymore
Deleted VideoBin because their API is not available anymore