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Zight

Score9.8 out of 10

106 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

Media

screen capture with annotations
screen recordings and video editing
GIFs
webcam recording
collections to organize content

1 / 5

Capable Screen Recorder with Powerful Annotation Tools

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

CloudApp has a lot of potential. But it needs to improve the video editing functionality.

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

Outstanding screen recorder software that has the potential to improve how you communicate with your team!

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 😅

Return on Investment

  • CloudApp has improved communication between times and helped us create better content!

Other Software Used

HubSpot, Slack, Asana

Perfectly simple - don't mess with it.

Pros

  • It's quite simple and intuitive.
  • Minimizes effort and irritation
  • Saves time!

Cons

  • I didn't give it 10 stars because unfortuneatly it fails every time I try to create a vid with it. My screen locks up / beach balling until I force quit the app.

Return on Investment

  • Look, it's a very nice app. I think you're asking for a bit to much here.

Other Software Used

Fusion 360, Apple iCloud, Google Cloud Storage

Simple, intuitive sharing

Pros

  • It's intuitive to use.
  • Provides easy gif/video creation.
  • Has simple and straightforward sharing.

Cons

  • The file size and quality of gifs could be improved.

Return on Investment

  • Speed. It's incredibly quick and easy to share images, gifs, and videos. That saves us time and makes us more productive.
  • Storage. Everything is kept in one place, so it's easy to go back and reference/keep track of. It keeps us from hunting down previous shares.
  • Annotation. It's very quick to mark things up before sending! Again, the primary benefit here is speed.
  • Cash. We'll occasionally share videos with prospects so they better understand our offerings. Some of those people become customers!

Other Software Used

Slack, Sketch, 1Password