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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

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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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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.
  • Screen recording
  • Taking screenshots
  • Annotating
  • File management
  • Sharing screenshots/screen recordings with clients
  • Pricing for individuals should be more competitive
  • Lack of support forum where users could help each other
CloudApp is great and does the job well, but there are other well-established products/services that bring the same value for a lower subscription price. This is especially important for small teams or startups. Given the fact it has all the important features, bigger companies will be very satisfied with it. Individuals and small teams might find other solutions more affordable, while getting the same features.
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.
  • Capturing specific contents in video format instead of getting recorded the whole screen
  • Customizing the contents of any video or screenshots and annoting in terms of user's need
  • Editing the videos and screenshots which is helpful in terms of sharing contents in online presentations or meetings with client
  • Getting more customized settings while uploading or editing screenshots to look the content more readable
  • The use of feature to Annotate is bit confusing and need to be well explained and detailed documented
  • Lots of updates receiving when download the app and used, So update must be come at particular time
  • I had to reinstall the app whenever the app getting crashed. I did it once
In terms of client meetings or any presentations we need some ice-breaker and informational contents to be displayed that can be short animation videos or edited screenshots or links to directly upload and who will give all the minor details of the product which is to be explained so CloudApp is the best app to get the content displayed like in any site we liked some informational content or animation we can easily get that animation in the form of video and add to our presentation slides to look more innovative and also the editing part to portray the details is so good.
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.
  • Recording
  • Screenshotting
  • Sharing
  • UI design.
  • Ease of use.
CloudApp is good for sharing product and development bugs that can be seen by a team.
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.
  • Ability to capture media: screenshots, GIFs and video (including webcam if you'd like)
  • Automatically hosting the images, so these can be previewed by others (this saves *so* much space!)
  • A generous freemium account which gives you a taste of what's possible
  • Cool UI -- CloudApp is really pleasant to use, especially on iOS
  • Great marketing!
  • Great integrations with tools like Slack which automatically preview the screenshots!
  • Can get buggy or slow to load when you have a large library of media saved
  • The GIF/video capturing can bug sometimes when you are in full-screen mode, but I have a feeling that's connected with going over the limit of the freemium account 😅
Personally, CloudApp ticks all the boxes when it comes to a screen recording and productivity tool. These are the most popular ways I use it (at work and home):
  • Take screenshots of "marketing done well" and industry news and share with the team on Slack.
  • Take screenshots of essential information and store it in notes.
  • Review short copy by taking a screenshot and using annotations to highlight where changes could be made.
  • Review a website page by following the same steps above to highlight the desired structure to the product designer.
  • Record a GIF of our new product feature to share in a newsletter or blog.
  • Record a GIF to record a user journey and share with the support team.
  • Record a short video to explain how to access/find stuff.
... and the list goes on!
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.
  • Excellent UI, easy to use and visually good.
  • Very easy to create gifs and capture screens (that's what it's for!).
  • Automatic upload is pretty useful.
  • The file size can be restrictive at times, but easy to workaround.
  • User workflow for images and gifs could be simplified.
CloudApp is perfect for anyone that wants to share what they have on screen. For us, the sharing of training techniques and points of interest have been made much more simple using this. The cloud storage is particularly useful, and although the process could probably be simplified slightly, it is still a worthwhile investment of time and resources.
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.
  • Unique URL to share as opposed to downloading a file.
  • Annotate on the fly.
  • Cross compatible with Mac and Windows - I use both.
  • Sometimes processing a gif can take a while.
  • I haven't found a way to do a scrolling capture, not sure if that feature exists.
Have you ever seen a design error on a site, a typo on the page, something a little wonky, but don't know how to explain it in words? With CloudApp, all you have to do is take a screenshot, make an annotation, and share. It's as simple as that. Or if you're reporting an error, and a developer wants the error to be recreated for documentation, you don't have to use a heavyweight screen recording software. You just record the issues and share - all in the cloud.

This may not be appropriate for formal situations, but for your team and among the more casual clients, it should work just fine.
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.
  • When dealing with clients that are not experienced in navigating their chosen analytics platform CloudApp makes it extremely easy to take a quick snap shot and connect the dots via their useful editing tools.
  • I have cut out so much back and forth misunderstandings with tech support departments at the many SAAS tools we use for our clients it hurts to think about how much lost time was lost before CloudApp.
  • The ability to instantly store editable snapshots in the cloud is worth the price admission alone...
  • There seems to be a problem with long video screen captures. I once attempted to video record the settings that I adjusted in the back-end of AdWords instead of taking so many screenshots. The 20 minute video never would show and it appears to have vanished. (I would really love to be able to retrieve that 20 min video)
  • I think making the download to desktop but in a little more convenient would help speed up the user interface a bit. (at least for me it would)
  • Would help me the most would be the ability to take several editable screenshots one after the other
  • Allow for multiple editable windows to exist at the same time. (I hope that makes sense)
  • There does not seem to be a way to take a screen grab of an entire webpage without scrolling down and taking multiple shots only to have to stitch them together in a program like Photoshop. I often have to use a separate screenshot program for this purpose.
I think CloudApp is most suited for people working within a team and looking to reduce the amount of miscommunication that commonly occurs within "text only" descriptions. I also think that Cloudapp is an amazing solution for easy cloud storage of desktop and online visuals where notes alone would skip too many smaller details, however CloudApp is no replacement for video screen capture in any way shape or form being that I had trouble with retrieving a video that only consisted of only 20 minutes of video screen capture.
Michele Giordano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use CloudApp for both internal communications and for communicating with clients. We also use CloudApp with another service based company I work with to create short videos and helpful tips on our software.
  • Quick grab and upload.
  • Works well with Windows.
  • Has nice annotation features and commenting abilities.
  • Gif quality could improve.
  • App crashed from time to time.
CloudApp is well suited for communications within your organization as well as with clients/customers. Cloud app makes it easy to quickly and visually show your customers the answers to the questions they are looking for. This is great when customers are emailing specific questions. It would be less appropriate in situations where your customer needs a walk through and has multiple questions. Also in situations where your customer is not tech savvy.
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