Zight

Score8.7 out of 10

107 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Screen and Video Capture

Media

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Dustin Day View profile

Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use Zight to communicate with clients. The other use for Zight is for internal communication. Zight makes communication so much easier. Being able to send screenshots and screen recordings to clients with easy annotations is invaluable. Having an app that quickly improves communication is well worth the investment.

Pros

Screen recording.
Screen shots.
Annotations of screen captures.
Share screen captures.
Create GIFs.

Cons

iPhone integration would be helpful.
Having better taxonomy or categorization of files would be helpful.
PC updates can be frustrating.

Return on Investment

Save time.
Improve communication.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Windows, Snagit, Lightshot, Greenshot and Screenpresso

Other Software Used

Labrika, Adobe After Effects, Rocketium Creative Automation, Canvas, Drupal

Verified User

Contributor in Sales (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am in a client-facing role I use Zight daily. Its screenshot and video recording features make it easy to explain concepts, share updates, and demonstrate product workflows clearly and quickly. Instead of long emails or meetings, you can send short, visual messages that reduce misunderstandings and speed up decision-making. Zight also helps you keep communication organized, track views, and present information in a more engaging, professional way when working directly with clients.

Pros

Screenshot capture & Sharing.
Easy to set up CTAs.
Video recording & sharing is very quick and easy.

Cons

just like any learning model it does take some time for the transcriptions to be 99% accurate.
There are times where recording appear to be a bit blurry making the experience not as professional.
there are some UI issues when it comes to video recording and editing that limit the amount of customization when sharing.

Return on Investment

fast time to value. there is training required to be able to be successful with Zight which makes for quick implementation.
Clearer communication faster support response.
internal communication is clear, less internal mistakes.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Loom and Snagit

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Avoma, Slack, Dock Digital Sales Room

Arpad Szucs View profile

Brand Designer | UI, UX & Visual Designer in Marketing at WhiteX.Design (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Screen recording
Taking screenshots
Annotating
File management
Sharing screenshots/screen recordings with clients

Cons

Pricing for individuals should be more competitive
Lack of support forum where users could help each other

Most Important Features

Screen recording
Annotated screenshots
Easy sharing of screen recordings/screenshots

Return on Investment

We spend less time on explaining
Keep a centralized space for client related education material

Alternatives Considered

Loom

Other Software Used

Movavi Screen Recorder, screenflow

Matt Surls

Sales Engineer in Sales at Qualtrics (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Recordings
gifs

Cons

The recording trimmer is awful

Most Important Features

Video Recording
Gif generation

Return on Investment

Sales Enablement
Revenue Generation

Alternatives Considered

ZOOM Quality Management Suite

Other Software Used

Zoom

Veronika Baranovska View profile

Inbound Marketing Manager in Marketing at Sendible (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

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!

Cons

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 😅