Comment by anotheryou
5 years ago
On windows shareX is king. I'd say a good bit better even (miss it on my linux machine where I use flameshot)
A few things it does:
https://i.imgur.com/FMMrVml.png
- uploads text from your clipboard to pastebins and images to your image hoster
- ftp upload (copying the http path to what you uploaded, full control over file naming ect). I built something to upload markdown via ftp and copy a url with the filename as an argument to the clipboard. That url leads to a js renderer for markdown.
- doing mp4 videos
Only downsides: a bit complex in the settings, wants to update often.
- numbering tool to quickly ad step 1, 2,3 to screenshots.
ShareX is extremely bloated, complicated and slow. I used it for a few years, because it was marginally better than SnagIt.
It also lets you do really interesting things like set up a time lapse so that it'll take screenshots every interval and be able to make animated GIF files.
By my count, mp4 video and FTP are the only things you mentioned that Flameshot doesn't do.
I don't know how common my case is, but my video capture needs quickly rise to needing OBS or equivalent. I don't think a "desktop utility" meets the need. For casual image captures, Flameshot more than satisfies.
Last time I had to use FTP, it was because a client faced ridiculous security policies on incoming email and web, but was for some reason allowed to host FTP service.
What I notice:
- blur for privacy: bad default in flameshot, I usually blur twice with it. If you are not careful text on the edge of your blur at least will remain very readable.
- I still like putting mouse pointer image and number markers quickly
- all the text upload stuff
- I like annotating first, and only than picking the area to shoot.
- highlighting does not multiply colors making highlighted passages less readable (looks foggy).
I've used ShareX for years, really powerful and also a config hell bloated mess. Settings I know are in there, I'll got hunting for 15 minutes to find where they are buried.
It's classic case if feature creep and UI designed by engineers.
But I've not found an alternative so far for Windows
I was using Greenshot because of the default configuration. But left for ShareX because of the Mp4 videos and Gifs. You're correct about the settings. But that's what I love about it too. I was able to mimic GS's default behavior in ShareX.
I also use and love sharex. I have it set up to use a digitalocean space (s3 compatible bucket) as its upload target.
My personal experience is that I never used 10% of the features ShareX had, or so rarely It never made sense.