CloudApp API
Zight (formerly CloudApp) states it offers no Open API; the legacy REST API on GitHub is archived and used HTTP Digest email plus password auth. Integration today means support-configured webhooks or the embeddable Record SDK, both routed through sales or support.
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CloudApp scores F on the API Report Card. Zight (formerly CloudApp) states it offers no Open API; the legacy REST API on GitHub is archived and used HTTP Digest email plus password auth. Integration today means support-configured webhooks or the embeddable Record SDK, both routed through sales or support.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
CloudApp (rebranded as Zight in April 2023) is an async-video, screen-recording, GIF, and annotated-screenshot visual-communication platform.
Vertical: misc, horizontal async-video / asynchronous-collaboration tool. Not a vertical SaaS in any Supergood-named vertical. Support ticket clarifications, annotated screenshots and 30-90 second screen recordings dropped into Zendesk/Intercom/HubSpot tickets to explain bugs and walk customers through fixes.
Medium-low. Zight (formerly CloudApp) is a recognized brand inside the screen-capture / async-video category, particularly among support and CS teams that adopted CloudApp before Loom became the category-defining verb.
Data that flows through / lives inside Zight (formerly CloudApp) on behalf of customer organizations: Capture assets: screenshots (PNG/JPG), annotated screenshots, screen recordings (MP4/WebM), webcam recordings, GIFs, file uploads, voice recordings.
Original launch 2010 as a Max Schoening side project; current commercial company founded 2016; rebranded CloudApp → Zight in April 2023. Modern web + native client architecture (macOS, Windows, iOS, Chrome extension). No Android app.
Public REST API repo on GitHub is archived and no longer maintained, long-lived clients still depend on it. Authentication is HTTP Digest with email+password rather than OAuth 2.0 or token-based, incompatible with SSO/MFA-only orgs. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Loom (Atlassian), Vidyard, Snagit (TechSmith), Camtasia (TechSmith), ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic), Droplr. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.