Zight for Windows
The Windows screen recorder and snipping tool that ends in a link, not a saved file.
Snip a region, record the screen, draw on it, trim it, and send a URL. Windows 10 and 11, one app for the whole motion instead of the Snipping Tool for one half and something else for the other.
Free plan · no credit card · Windows .appinstaller
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What is the best screen recorder for Windows?
Zight is a free screen recorder and snipping tool for Windows 10 and 11. It captures a region, a window or the full screen, records video or a GIF with system audio and your microphone, annotates with arrows, text and blur, and uploads each capture so the share link is already on your clipboard.
What it does on Windows
Five jobs, one app
The set that usually needs a screenshot utility, a recorder, an editor and a file-sharing account between them.
Screen recording
The full screen or a selected area, as video or a GIF, with or without a camera overlay. System audio and microphone together, and your recording preferences stay set between takes.
Learn moreSnipping and screenshots
Region, window, or the visible page — the same snips the built-in tool takes, except this one uploads them and hands you a URL instead of asking where to save.
Learn moreAnnotation
Arrows, text, highlights, shapes and blur, on a screenshot or drawn live mid-recording. Blur is the one that matters when the screen has a customer’s details on it.
Learn moreVideo editing
Trim takes the ends off, cut removes the middle, and split and merge handle the rest. The link stays the same when you re-share the tidied version.
Learn moreRequest links
The half a snipping tool cannot do: send a link and the other person captures their screen, with their console logs attached, from any browser and with nothing installed.
Learn moreGetting started on Windows
Four steps, and the last one is paste
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Install it
The .appinstaller from downloads.zight.com keeps itself current. Signing up is free.
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Click the toolbar icon
Screenshot, GIF or Record. Pick a region, a window, or the whole screen — or set a keyboard shortcut in Settings first.
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Annotate, then stop
Arrows and text on a snip; draw live during a recording; trim or cut when you finish.
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Paste the link
Already on your clipboard. Drop it in Teams, the ticket, or the email you were about to write three paragraphs into.
Keyboard shortcuts
Zight ships without stealing your existing shortcuts — you set them in the toolbar icon → gear → Settings → Shortcuts. These are the copy and save keys once a capture exists.
- Copy the content
- Ctrl C
- Copy a direct link
- Ctrl ⇧ C
- Paste it
- Ctrl V
- Save the file locally
- Ctrl S
- Capture and record
- Set your own
The other direction
Every capture app sends. This one also asks.
Whatever you install on your own machine, it cannot see what is happening on someone else’s — and “can you send me a screenshot?” is where the afternoon goes. Send a request link instead: they capture their screen from the browser, with no account and no install, whatever they are running.
How-tos
Screenshots and recording on Windows
The Snipping Tool, the shortcuts, and the laptops with their own key combinations.
FAQ
Questions people ask about Windows
Yes. The free plan covers screen recording, screenshots, video requests and 15-second GIFs, with recordings up to five minutes and no credit card. Unlimited recording time starts on the Create plan.
For most of what people use it for, yes. It takes the same region, window and full-screen snips and adds the parts the Snipping Tool has no answer for: the capture uploads itself, the share link is on your clipboard, annotation is built in, and the same app records video when one frame is not enough.
Yes, both. The installer is an .appinstaller that keeps itself up to date, so there is no build to choose between.
Yes, together — which is what you want when the thing you are demonstrating makes a sound, or when you are talking over a video that has its own audio.
Yes. Share settings cover who can open a link and how long it stays live, so a capture that was only meant for one thread does not stay public forever.
Yes. Send a request link and they capture their own screen from the browser, with no account and no install, and it comes back to you with their console logs and browser details attached.
Show it, instead of typing it out.
Free on Windows. Capture, point at the thing, paste the link.