Zight Screen Recorder 4+

Over the couple years I've used CloudApp it works great most of the time then something throws it off and quirky things happen for a few weeks. Eventually, they come out with an update and all works well again. Seems to be pretty stable at the moment. (Oct 2023) Would like to see the ability to move my picture where ever on the screen when filming screen recordings. On a large screen monitor its pretty useless with me down in the corner as a miniscule talking head. Overall, its a good product.

Hello!

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on Zight! We truly appreciate your feedback, and we're glad to hear about your overall positive experience with the app.

It's great to know that you've found Zight to be reliable over the years. We're constantly working on improving our app, and your feedback is invaluable to us.

Regarding your request to move your picture around the screen during screen recordings, we understand how that could enhance the user experience, especially on large screens. Are you using the desktop app? In the Zight desktop app, you can make your picture larger/smaller, move it around, and enhance it to take up the whole screen. We hope this helps!

Once again, thank you for your support and valuable feedback. We hope to keep providing you with a great experience, and if you have any more suggestions or encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

The Zight Team

EDIT: we now added th ability to move your webcam anywhere and have it shown much bigger!

CloudApp was an amazing tool. In the last few years, it has become increasingly buggy. For 6 months, our video screencasts would fail to upload (this happened to our entire company, who are all working remote, not using a VPN, on different Internet connections and different devices with NO corporate software nor corporate firewalls). It took us 6 months to get their attention to actually do anything about it.

After the recent changeover to "Zight", now the screen recording buttons appear in the top blacked out notch on my MAC Pro (where the camera is) and I can't access the pause nor finish button after completing a full screen screencast on my laptop screen.

It's just unfortunately not nearly as reliable as it once was, which is a bummer since our entire company has enjoyed the tool for years! We could never find anything like it, but the team has now complained so much (justifiably) about it's frequent bugs that we are searching for an alternative.

Hi LaurenDLM - so sorry to hear about the issues you are experiencing here.

Would you be willing to get in touch with us at support@zight.com? We will both provide you with a newer & updated version of our app and offer you a gift card for your willingness to help us improve our app.

[update] The change from CloudApp to Zight was not a change in name only. App features were also entirely removed in the rebranding. And users beware: Zight updates this app without user permission or interaction!

[origial review] I was thrilled some time back to find this app in the app store vs having to direct download. Sadly, there often seems to be some problem with CloudApp. For awhile now the biggest issue is that even though I leave this app always running, it's never there when I need it. It's silently failed & disappeared. So I restart it. And very often I also have to re-login. And fairly frequently I have to re-set all my user preferences. It's a lot of work for a "helper" app. I can recommend it when it's working. But as I said, there's almost always some issue.

Hey there TexasCrafter - when we changed CloudApp to Zight, it was *only* a name/brand change. Sounds like you may have installed a 'light weight' version of our app (our Chrome extension or used our dashboard). Would you please make sure you are using the Mac Store app and not a chrome/dashboard app?

Also FYI re updating the app without permission, this is a setting that you have on your computer that Apple built and you've enabled. Please disable it if you do not like it.