Adobe Premiere Pro vs ShareX
Adobe Premiere Pro and ShareX are both video editing software. Adobe Premiere Pro is a commercial product from Adobe Inc. ShareX is open source under GPL-3.0, with 41k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Adobe Premiere Pro when
- You edit video professionally on Windows or across platforms and work with After Effects.
- Pick ShareX when
- You capture and share screenshots constantly on Windows and want automation after each capture.
Side by side
Professional timeline video editor for Windows and Mac, linked with After Effects and Audition.
A Windows tool for screenshots, screen recordings and GIFs with annotation, OCR and automated upload to dozens of hosting destinations.
Subscription only, and stability on large projects is a common complaint.
Windows only, and its many options take time to configure.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app (both)
Not published
C#, .NET and FFmpeg
Closed source, sold by Adobe Inc.
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
1.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
41k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v21.0.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.