A ShareX alternative for designed, store-ready screenshots.
ShareX is free, open-source and astonishingly powerful — and it can be overwhelming. If you mostly need a screenshot to look designed — backdrops, AI cutout, redaction, store sizes — ShotsGlow is the calmer, native option for $9 once.
Free and powerful — or calm and designed
ShareX can capture anything and automate everything, including screen recording. The trade is its surface area: it's a power tool, and many people find it complex. ShotsGlow picks the other end — a focused, native editor where a raw capture becomes a designed image in a few moves.
The features ShareX doesn't have are the ones ShotsGlow leads with: a library of designed gradient backdrops, on-device AI background removal, redaction that survives a later crop, and 30 export sizes including the App Store presets.
| ShareX free · OSS | ShotsGlow $9 once | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $9 once |
| Native Windows capture | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screen recording | ✓ | ✗ not yet |
| Designed backdrops & polish | ✗ | ✓ |
| On-device AI background removal | ✗ | ✓ |
| Blur / redact (survives crop) | Basic | ✓ |
| 30 social & App Store sizes | ✗ | ✓ |
| Calm, focused UI | Powerful but complex | ✓ |
ShareX is free and records the screen — if that's your need, keep it. For designed, redacted, store-sized screenshots in a calm UI, ShotsGlow.
Is ShareX better than ShotsGlow?
For raw capability and price, ShareX is incredible — it's free, open-source, records the screen and automates huge workflows. ShotsGlow does a narrower thing well: turning a screenshot into a designed, redacted, store-sized image in a calm native UI.
Does ShotsGlow record the screen like ShareX?
Not yet. If screen recording and capture automation are core to you, keep ShareX.
What does ShotsGlow add over ShareX?
Designed gradient backdrops, on-device AI background removal, redaction that survives a crop, and 30 export sizes including App Store — without assembling a workflow.