Overall Winner

ShareX

beats OBS Studio by 20 points

ShareX 🏆 62/100

OBS Studio 42/100

ShareX wins over OBS Studio for screenshot recording. Deep Windows capture suite with Imgur upload. Free cross-platform screencast with crash reports. Choose ShareX for stills and upload automation, OBS Studio for multi-OS streaming.

Score breakdown

Dimension

ShareX

OBS Studio

Price & Value

★★★★☆

Features

★★★★★ wins

★★★★☆

Ease of Use

★★★☆☆ wins

★★☆☆☆

Reviews

★★★★☆ wins

★★☆☆☆

Each dimension rated 1–5. Higher is better across all four.

What users say

ShareX

"Free Windows capture suite; screen record has been reported to quit a few seconds in."

Pros

The killer feature is the upload to Imgur, and I just have all my screenshots stored somewhere A really good editor featuring many functions like editing, uploading, QR-code generating ShareX is not a simple screenshot utility. It is a suite of power toys

OBS Studio

"Free cross-platform screencaster; crash and lag reports pull UX down."

Pros

ShareX and OBS are free and open-source Works really well

When to Choose Each

Choose ShareX if you are on Windows and want a capture suite rather than a simple snipping tool. User reviews call it a suite of power toys: viewer, editor, combiner, uploader, QR generator, color picker, and ruler, with Imgur upload as the quoted killer feature. It is free and open-source with no paid SKU. Screen record is the weak job in this pair — customer feedback says recording inexplicably quits a few seconds in. Window targeting is called unintuitive, and 4K laptop capture has been called unusable. ShareX is Windows-only.

Choose OBS Studio if the job is actually a screencast or stream on Windows, Mac, or Linux. Community comments treat OBS as the screencast counterpart to ShareX stills. It is free with no paid SKU. The same batch reports freezes and crashes during game capture, hotkeys that stop, 1 FPS, half-saved files, and reviewers calling it not user friendly. A minority say it works really well. Test length and FPS on your machine before you depend on it.

Key Differences

Pricing: both are free open-source with no paid SKU.
Job split: ShareX is a Windows stills-and-upload suite; OBS is a cross-platform recorder and streamer.
Recording reliability: ShareX comments say screen record quits a few seconds in; OBS comments say crash, lag, 1 FPS, and half-saved files.
Extra tools: ShareX ships editor, Imgur upload, QR, ruler, and combiner. OBS is not a stills suite in this batch.
Platform: ShareX is Windows-only. OBS covers Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Pricing & value

Metric	ShareX	OBS Studio	Winner
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Tie
Starting price	Free	Free	ShareX

Is ShareX better than OBS Studio?

Yes as a Windows capture suite — editor, uploader, QR, ruler — while OBS is the free screencast and stream tool, with crash and lag in customer feedback.

Which is cheaper?

Both are free and open-source with no paid SKU. Users ask why you would buy software when ShareX and OBS are free.

Which is better for screen recording?

Community comments split them: ShareX for screenshots, OBS for screencasting. ShareX screen record has been reported to quit a few seconds in. OBS reports include crash, 1 FPS, and half-saved files — test a five-minute capture before you standardize.

Our pick

🏆 ShareX

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