ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from. (by ShareX)
PowerToys
Windows system utilities to maximize productivity (by microsoft)
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| ShareX | PowerToys | |
|---|---|---|
| 552 | 674 | |
| 24,405 | 91,653 | |
| 1.4% | 1.8% | |
| 9.7 | 8.4 | |
| 2 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ShareX
Posts with mentions or reviews of ShareX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
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For those who've recently switched from Windows to Mac, what's the one app you miss the most?
ShareX. No macOS alternative (which I would have tried) comes close in terms of usability for uploading (parts of) screenshots automatically.
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Study Time Stats 2.0.0
(Used ShareX to take screenshots with some image effects, hopefully they're not too much extra)
- Why is there not a single good web browser?
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Tomorrow is the big day! Imgur is deleting all images uploaded by anonymous users
https://getsharex.com/ screenshot tool has the ability to upload images.
It's list of "image" upload destinations is maintained at: * https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/tree/develop/ShareX.UploadersLib/ImageUploaders
- Screenshots are hard
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What FOSS do you use for taking and marking up screenshots?
ShareX: It can do
Wasn't there some issues with greenshot being dead in development? I think https://getsharex.com/ shares the same codebase, but needs some tweaking to prevent accidental uploads if you roll it out for users.
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What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
ShareX is the goat! https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/
PowerToys
Posts with mentions or reviews of PowerToys.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
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Владельцами Windows 11. После установки PowerToys в винде появляется возможность распознавания текста с картинок - мега удобная штука.
ссылко Release Release v0.70.0 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub
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PSA: There's an official Pineapple installer which automatically updates Yuzu for you
PowerToys allows you to do this, among other things.
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
Perhaps, hopefully it's not a blocker. Issues have been filed on their github so it may come in the future.
- Getting rid of rounded corners in Windows 11
- What's the best Windows productivity app? (lifelong mac user who switched to Windows)
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Another great target for JXL support: PowerToys (opensource, >90k stars on GitHub) has a module for adding explorer.exe thumbnail/preview support to file formats
Here's an issue on their GitHub. It references jxl-winthumb which uses WIC (meaning explorer.exe, the default Windows Photo Viewer, and any other app using it can then decode and display JXL). It's written in Rust (no Rust code in PowerToys yet, mostly C++ and C#) but at the very least it serves as a good reference for implementing in C++.
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[HUB] One YEAR Using The Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED - My Thoughts
There is an ongoing effort to solve this.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Just as a note: PowerToys' FancyZones offers more customizations over the window layouts than the OS-included one (which is just fine for most people for the most part, btw).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ShareX and PowerToys you can also consider the following projects:
Wox - Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
Fluent-Search - Official repository for Fluent Search, use to report issues or ask for a new feature
greenshot - Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:
T-Clock - Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
QuickLook - Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.