CloudApp is a cross-platform screen capture and screen recording desktop client that supports online storage and sharing.
CloudApp full and partial screen recordings export to
.mp4
MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streami ...
format. Full or partial screen image captures export to either
JPG or
PNG format. Additionally, CloudApp can create GIFs, annotate images and videos, and upload and store files.
History
CloudApp was initially launched in 2010 as a project by Max Schoening (former lead designer at
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, ...
). Originally, it enabled knowledge workers to instantly share screenshots and file assets as short links that didn't require a download to view. The project then moved towards
visual collaboration to allow sharing screenshots, gifs, annotations, and screen recordings. The first iteration included a downloadable
Mac application and accompanying free service.
CloudApp was later acquired by Aluminum.io and Xenon Ventures in January 2014, where Tyler Koblasa became General Manager and CEO. In June 2016, Koblasa secured US$2 million in a funding round led by
Tikhon Bernstam
Tikhon Bernstam (born 1979) is an American Internet entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
Background
Bernstam grew up in Palo Alto, California and then attended Dartmouth College, where he studied economics, computer sci ...
, founder of
Scribd
Scribd Inc. is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.
The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon ...
and
Parse
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, and Kyle York (CSO
Dyn), which enabled him to acquire the intellectual property from Aluminum.io, invest in the platform and add founding team member Scott Smith to help scale the business.
In July 2016, CloudApp acquired the intellectual property for app ''Annotate'', a popular Mac and iOS annotation app, from
David Cancel
David Cancel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and founder of several software companies. He is the CEO and founder of Drift, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company which creates messaging software for businesses.
Education
Cancel attende ...
and Elias Torres, of Boston-based Drift. In October 2019 it added collections and favorites to its platforms to allow teams and enterprises to share collections of videos, screenshots, and GIFs created with CloudApp.
In January 2020 it launched a new app to cover iPhones and iPads. In March 2020, it launched ‘Instant Video’, a new video streaming service, that uploads videos while the user captures them to make sharing instantaneous. CloudApp has been listed five quarters in a row on
G2's top consumer reviewed products lists.
Features
Video
*Full screen, screen only, optional audio
*Full screen, window-in-window webcam, optional audio
*Full screen, webcam only, optional audio
*Selected region, screen only, optional audio
*Selected region, window-in-window webcam, optional audio
*Supports real-time video annotation
*Start/pause/resume controls
*End of life*
Image
*GIF creation
*Full screen capture
*Partial screen capture
*Delayed screenshot
*Supports image annotation
Browser view
*Share via link, email, social
*Support embedded media
*Permissions management
*Organize in collections
*Comments
Integrations
CloudApp integrates with
Zendesk
Zendesk is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides software-as-a-service products related to customer support, sales, and other customer communications. The company was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007. Z ...
,
Jira,
Trello
Trello is a web-based, kanban-style, list-making application and is developed by Trello Enterprise, a subsidiary of Atlassian. Created in 2011 by Glitch, it was spun out to form the basis of a separate company in New York City in 2014 and sold ...
,
Zapier
Zapier is a product that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. The company is fully remote. As of 2021, it connects to more than 4,000 apps, with free and paid plans.
Overview
Zapier provides workflo ...
, the
Google Workspace
Google Workspace (formerly known as Google Apps and later G Suite) is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet ...
,
GitHub
GitHub, Inc. () is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous ...
,
Asana
An asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga ...
,
Slack, several
Freshworks products, and the
Zoho Office Suite
Zoho Office Suite is an Indian web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), project management, invoicing and othe ...
.
Platform support
CloudApp supports Linux, macOS, and Windows with a downloaded client. It also enables mobile screen recording with a native iPhone app. CloudApp has a Chrome browser extension listed in the Chrome Webstore.
See also
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Snipping Tool
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Comparison of screencasting software
This page provides a comparison of notable screencasting software, used to record activities on the computer screen. This software is commonly used for desktop recording, gameplay recording and video editing. Screencasting software is typically li ...
References
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External links
Official website
Screenshot software
Screencasting software
Windows software
Windows multimedia software
MacOS
MacOS software