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Zight
Formerly CloudApp

Overview

What is Zight?

Zight (formerly CloudApp) is a solution with a community of over 4M users, offering visual asynchronous communication, eliminating the need to use different applications for screenshots, GIFs, screen recordings, and web recordings.

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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud

Team

$8.00

Cloud
per month per user

Pro

$9.95

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://zight.com/plans

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Zight for Microsoft Teams

YouTube

Video Editing Features

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Getting Started with Chrome

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Zight File Sharing Overview

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Zight Custom Branding Overview

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Zight Call To Action Overview

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Product Details

What is Zight?

Zight is a video, image, and screen capture platform for professionals. It is presented as a fast way to instantly capture, edit, and share screenshots, screen recordings, and GIFs throughout business workflows (e.g. software development, design, customer success, support, sales, marketing).

Zight aims to make it quick and easy to share with others, whether the user is a freelance designer, web developer, software engineer, customer service professional, or startup founder. Every file the user creates is securely stored in the cloud, and accessible via the native Mac and Windows Apps, or shareable on the web through unique, secure, and password-protected short links.

Zight Features

  • Supported: Screen Capture
  • Supported: Screen Recording
  • Supported: GIF Maker
  • Supported: Video Editing
  • Supported: Annotations
  • Supported: Security
  • Supported: Analytics
  • Supported: Collections
  • Supported: Embed
  • Supported: Shortcuts
  • Supported: CTA Button
  • Supported: Custom Branding
  • Supported: Zight Artificial Intelligence (AI) Add-On – In Beta

Zight Screenshots

Screenshot of screen capture with annotationsScreenshot of screen recordings and video editingScreenshot of GIFsScreenshot of webcam recordingScreenshot of collections to organize content

Zight Video

Video Recording & Editing

Zight Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Zight (formerly CloudApp) is a solution with a community of over 4M users, offering visual asynchronous communication, eliminating the need to use different applications for screenshots, GIFs, screen recordings, and web recordings.

Loom, Vidyard, and Droplr are common alternatives for Zight.

The most common users of Zight are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Zight Customer Size Distribution

Consumers30%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)40%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)5%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

CloudApp has become a valuable tool for various teams and individuals across different industries. Users have found it effective for a wide range of tasks, such as taking screenshots, recording GIFs, and creating videos. The Annotate function in CloudApp has been particularly helpful in saving time when communicating changes on marketing content and product interfaces. Its ability to combine multiple communication tools into a centralized hub for screen recordings and annotated screenshots has been appreciated by users.

The organized file system in CloudApp, with sub-folders for each project or client, has made it easy to manage and categorize files. This feature has been highly valued by web design businesses, as it allows them to educate clients on using their new websites. Additionally, CloudApp is widely utilized for collaboration with clients and development partners, enabling the visual demonstration and explanation of problems through video recordings or annotated screenshots.

One of the key benefits of CloudApp is its time-saving functionality. The automatic uploading and copying of screenshots eliminate the need for manual saving and uploading, streamlining workflows. This convenience is especially valued by web developers who need to share progress or issues with dynamic web pages. Furthermore, the eJOY content team has found CloudApp instrumental in composing tutorials for English learners by providing easy screenshot sharing and storage.

The versatility of CloudApp extends beyond internal use. It is frequently used for both internal and client communications, allowing users to create short videos and provide helpful tips on software usage. It also serves as a valuable tool for organizations to provide assistance to clients by visually demonstrating how to complete tasks on their websites. In addition, CloudApp is recommended to team members as a quick and efficient way to share screenshots and videos via links instead of attachments.

Moreover, CloudApp finds extensive use within organizations as a means of capturing and sharing valuable visual information. It is widely used for quickly sharing screenshots, videos, and GIFs both internally among team members and externally with clients or partners. The low-friction nature of CloudApp makes it easy to instantly capture and share anything on the screen without using excessive storage resources.

CloudApp has proven to be an essential tool for various purposes, such as communicating with technical support, delivering screenshots efficiently, capturing software features and bugs, providing step-by-step instructions to clients, training purposes, and explaining process changes through recordings. It has also been utilized in conjunction with other collaboration tools like Trello to demonstrate development bugs and requests. In public engagement groups, CloudApp has facilitated remote teaching by enabling the communication of techniques through short gifs and pictures, which has been particularly helpful for geographically dispersed volunteers. CloudApp has also been valuable for remote workers located globally, allowing them to easily share screenshots, gifs, screen recordings, and more with a simple link. This feature has saved time and enhanced communication among team members, especially when providing updates or explaining changes to those on leave.

The software's flexibility and ease of use make it a preferred choice for sharing specific content in meetings, uploading informational documents, videos, and screenshots. By eliminating the need for file downloads, CloudApp simplifies the process of sharing and annotating screenshots, gifs, and recordings. The support team has found it particularly beneficial for providing step-by-step instructions with images and short videos to clients. Moreover, CloudApp plays a crucial role in facilitating collaboration between product and development teams by allowing them to address bugs through shared screen recordings and screenshots.

CloudApp's usefulness extends beyond internal workflows as well. It has been successfully utilized for training purposes, enabling demonstrations of process changes through recordings. Users have also praised its efficiency in taking quick, shareable screenshots and uploading them to the cloud without any hassle. Additionally, CloudApp serves as an effective tool for web marketing and SEO firms for client work, documentation, meetings, on-screen videos, capturing software development features and bugs, as well as showcasing items on websites, social platforms, and emails.

Overall, CloudApp stands out due to its unique features that are not commonly found in other screen recording or screenshot apps. Its versatility and ability to streamline communication make it a go-to solution for various teams across different industries. With its user-friendly interface and centralized hub for all visual communication needs, CloudApp has become an indispensable tool in many organizations' workflows.

Visually Pleasing and Easy to Use Interface: Users have consistently praised CloudApp for its visually pleasing and easy-to-use interface. Many reviewers have mentioned that the user interface is intuitive and well-designed, making it simple for them to navigate through the various features of the tool.

Capture and Hosting of Media: The ability to capture screenshots, GIFs, videos, including webcam recordings, was highly appreciated by users. They found this feature extremely useful in their day-to-day work. Additionally, users liked that CloudApp automatically hosted the captured media files, saving them storage space on their devices.

Generous Freemium Account: The generous freemium account provided by CloudApp has been well-received by many users. This allows them to experience the features and benefits of the tool without having to commit to a paid plan right away. Several reviewers have mentioned how valuable this offering is in helping them determine if CloudApp meets their needs before upgrading to a paid subscription.

  1. Bugs and slow loading times with large media library: Some users have experienced bugs and slow loading times when dealing with a large library of media, impacting their overall user experience.

  2. Limitations on GIF/video capturing in full-screen mode: Several users have encountered issues with GIF/video capturing in full-screen mode, possibly due to freemium account limitations, which has hindered their ability to capture content effectively.

  3. Difficulty retrieving lost video recordings: A number of users expressed frustration over losing a 20-minute video recording and not being able to retrieve it, highlighting the need for a feature that allows them to recover lost recordings easily.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
By using CloudApp we can record our screen, so instead of doing any lengthy meetings now we are saving our business time by screen recording all the updates and uploading it. So, team members can watch the updates whenever they get the time throughout the day. It also helps when someone is on leave and we have to explain to them all the updates.
Arpad Szucs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have many different tools that facilitate communication with clients, each has its own place in our workflow. However, CloudApp tries to combine many of these tools - quite effectively - to have a centralized hub for our screen recordings and annotated screenshots. All these are nicely organized in a file system. Each project/client can have its own sub-folder (collection). This helps keep all the recordings and files arranged, which is especially useful if you work with many clients. The actual purpose of the recordings is to educate and help our clients. In a web design business, it's essential to help clients in how to use their new website and a screen recording (or a series of recordings) can be very helpful. To explain and answer small questions, the annotated screenshot features are great.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Most of my coworkers work remotely, and CloudApp is great when I need to show them something. All I need to do is to take a screenshot of my desktop, and forward them the link in Slack or email. I can even crop the image, highlight a portion of it, or make arrows pointing to an important item. However, often I will be automatically logged out of the program, making it much slower to access.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CloudApp is been more useful to me in terms of content sharing or I can say very specific content sharing to any meetings with Client here I can upload many informational documents contents links which is very handy instead of sharing whole screen and uploading the content and waiting them to get uploaded. Cloud App helped to share content videos, screenshots with necessary editing and being very helpful in presentations.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CloudApp was used to share screen recordings or screenshots with product and development to address bugs. Whenever we would see an issue with our platform then we would record via cloudApp and send it to the appropriate department. Sometimes we would use it for training as well in terms of process changes etc.
Veronika Baranovska | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
CloudApp is the screen recording tool of choice for the marketing team and a few other employees at our company who currently use Jing. CloudApp is brilliant at taking screenshots, recording GIFs and video. I particularly love the Annotate function which saves us so much time when it comes communicating the changes that are required on marketing content and the user interface of our product.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a public engagement group, we use volunteers to deliver our activities. As we are growing quickly, we don't always have time to sit down with each volunteer specifically to teach the in's and out's of each activity, so remote teaching videos and documents have been really useful in making sure everyone is up to speed. This is also particularly important for those that are not geographically local, and as we share our activities, this software makes it easy to communicate these techniques, and short gifs and pictures.
Andrew Clark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire organization uses CloudApp to quickly share screenshots, videos, and gifs, both internally and externally. The most common use case for us is sharing quick screenshots of things we're seeing in our product or doing quick edits on a copy, but we often use gifs and videos to report bugs, illustrate points, etc. It's a very handy way to capture and share things we're working on.
Christopher Page, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CloudApp is being used within my company, mostly for collaboration with clients and development partners. It's been a lifesaver to visually show problems with a video recording, or take a picture and point out the problem/area that needs changed by marking it up. It saves a lot of time from having to jump on constant screen sharing sessions just to show a single problem area. It also saves time from having to manually do a screenshot, save it, then upload it to an email...I can just paste the link once it's automatically uploaded and copied!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Support Team uses CloudApp to take GIFs, videos, and screenshots to send to our clients and to use in our knowledge base articles. Sometimes providing steps along with images or a short video is an easier way of explaining how to accomplish something within our product.
J.P. VanderLinden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use of CloudApp is not consistent across the organization, but we do recommend it to team members. It's a fast way to be able to share screenshots on Slack or via email by just pasting a link, rather than having to screenshot, save, attach and upload. The short GIF recording feature is also a lifesaver when you're trying to capture a bug or show someone how to do something, but don't want to get on a full-fledged screen share.
Daniel DiGriz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
CloudApp is a low-friction, no-brainer way to instantly capture anything on my screen and share it via Slack or elsewhere, without using my own storage resources, saving the file, dragging attachments, or even having to copy before I paste. Before CloudApp, it was laborious to share thoughts, charts, quotes, price sheets, and other images live during a collaborative conference call, and a big production to make quick, 30-second walkthrus in answer to a how-to. Now it's easier to share than not to. Once I started using CloudApp, I couldn't do without it.
Allie Fleming | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I’ve been using CloudApp for personal and professional use for many years. As most of my work relates to translating web designs into dynamic web pages, screenshots are an easy way to share progress or issues I see in a super easy and quick way. Using the default key commands for Mac screenshots, CloudApp creates a hyperlink instantly to share. Has my coworker or client viewed the screenshot yet? CloudApp lets me know. Need to demonstrate a broken form page via screen recording? CloudApp helps with that too! Best part is doing quick markup of arrows or text to point to exactly what I’m talking about. CloudApp solves many moments that could lead to miscommunication. I will continue using this app as long as I’m working on a computer!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use CloudApp to share and annotate screenshots, gifs, and recordings. The biggest problem it addresses is that whoever you're sharing your file with doesn't have to download it to their hard drive. This saves space, and that extra step of throwing a file in the trash that you're done viewing.
Tim Colling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are a small custom web marketing and SEO firm. I purchased CloudApp to use personally when working with clients, creating screen shots for documentation or meetings, and for creating on-screen videos.
Phillip Guye | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I personally use CloudApp to quickly show an annotated visual representation of a past, current or future conversation, issue or problem solve. I use it with prospects, clients and my employees.
May 29, 2018

Cloud App :D

Whitney Burchill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloud app has been great for us. There are a lot of cool features that we haven't seen other screen recording or shots. Some things I would like to see is making it more simple to navigate between screens while recording and also being able to choose if we would like to copy the content or have the link.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it to take quick, shareable screenshots where I can quickly annotate and bring to attention certain parts I want to share with my colleagues. It makes uploading the screenshot to the cloud extremely fast and efficient and for quick sharing.
Diep Bui | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CloudApp is utilized by the eJOY content team. It helps us save time in composing tutorials to our English learners. We just take a screenshot, mark the focus area and then CloudApp does the rest for us. We don't have to store the file on our laptops as well. CloudApp stores it and sends me the link. So we just send the link to our learners and explain to them. Sometimes we create a GIF to illustrate a workflow. It's so convenient. I love CloudApp.
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