Zight review

Zight turns screen activity into shareable visual explanations: record a walkthrough, capture a screenshot or GIF, then send a link. It is built for showing someone what happened or how to do something, rather than explaining it in a long email. Recipients can open a video-request link and submit a recording without creating an account or installing the app, according to the product brief.

Beyond capture and sharing, Zight can record calendar calls and return meeting notes and action items. Its AI tools can turn recordings into summaries, chapters and step-by-step guides. For Chrome recordings, users can blur webpage elements; text redaction is in limited beta. Those features make Zight broader than a basic screenshot utility, but the core workflow is still capture, explain and share by link. The practical question for a switch is whether its recording and request limits fit your team.

Zight’s clearest strength is making visual communication easy to pass along. A short recording can show a bug or process more clearly than a written description, while screenshots and GIFs cover cases where video is excessive. Link-based requests are useful for collecting a report from someone outside the team: recipients do not need an account or installation, per the product brief.

The paid plans add room for regular use. According to the pricing information, Create costs $9.95 per user per month when billed annually, with two included users, 5 GB of storage, unlimited recording time and five AI smart actions per month. Collaborate is $12 per user per month on annual billing, includes up to 100 users and unlimited storage and AI smart actions, and lists GDPR and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Both annual prices are monthly equivalents charged once a year; the stated saving is 20%.

For teams that already explain work through recordings, AI summaries and step-by-step guides can reduce follow-up documentation. Scale adds SSO/SCIM and group permissions, with custom pricing.

The free Share plan is tightly capped: one user, 1 GB of storage, five-minute recordings, 15-second GIFs and five video requests per month. Create removes the recording-time limit, but still includes only five AI smart actions and up to 10 video requests per month. Collaborate raises video requests to 50; the published plan details do not state a monthly request allowance for Scale, only custom volume.

Price comparison is awkward because monthly billing is available for Share, Create and Collaborate, but the monthly rates are not published. Create’s $9.95 and Collaborate’s $12 are annual-billing equivalents, charged once a year—not month-to-month prices. Scale and add-ons, including premium integrations and the Recording SDK, also have no published prices.

There is a separate caution in one r/windows Reddit thread: its author says Zight continued to launch and run background processes after uninstalling. That is an individual report, not confirmation of a general problem, but teams should account for uninstall behavior when evaluating desktop software. Text redaction is only in limited beta, so do not assume it is generally available.

Zight’s Share plan is free, but caps you at 1 GB of storage, five-minute recordings, 15-second GIFs and five video requests a month. Create costs $9.95 per user per month on annual billing, with two users included, 5 GB of storage, unlimited recording time and five AI smart actions per month. That is the first paid step; monthly billing is available, but its price is not published.

Collaborate is $12 per user per month on annual billing, with up to 100 included users, unlimited storage and unlimited AI smart actions. The jump from Create is $2.05 per user per month, but it also raises video requests from 10 to 50. The pricing page says annual prices are charged once a year and reflect a 20% saving.

Scale has custom pricing. Premium integrations, the Recording SDK and training are add-ons with unpublished prices, so check the total before switching.

Switching the sharing workflow looks relatively light: Zight recordings, screenshots and GIFs are shared by link, and recipients can submit requested recordings without an account or installation. That can reduce friction when asking customers or colleagues for a visual explanation. It does not tell us how easy it is to move an existing library into Zight.

Before committing, confirm whether you can export recordings, keep existing links working, and transfer any associated notes or guides. Those data-export and link-preservation details are not published on the vendor's site. Scale lists custom data retention and S3 storage; the other plans’ retention and export terms are not specified here.

We have no Reddit posts in the published material, so we can’t credibly report why users leave Zight. Ask about export and retention before moving a large archive, and compare the price against the five-minute free-plan cap and unpublished monthly rates.