Async team communication

Some meetings should have been a screenshot.

Show the state, explain the change, and let teammates respond when they are ready. Share the visual update in the channel where your team already works.

Free account · macOS and Windows · 1 GB cloud storage

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SMALL-TEAM ASYNC

More context than text. Less ceremony than a meeting.

  1. 01Choose screenshot or video
  2. 02Share in the team channel
  3. 03Keep the response attached

Choose the lightest format

Do not make someone watch what they could scan.

Use a screenshot for a status, decision, UI state, result, or quick instruction. Record when motion, sequence, narration, or a personal explanation creates meaning the still image cannot carry.

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Screenshot

Best for a quick update, marked-up decision, numbered process, or visual proof.

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Recording

Best for a walkthrough, behavior, training, or a connected sequence of steps.

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Written message

Best for searchable decisions, assignments, and details that do not need a visual.

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Meeting

Keep it for live debate, sensitive discussion, relationship work, or genuinely synchronous decisions.

Keep context intact

Share the actual thing instead of describing its location.

Capture from macOS or Windows, annotate the relevant part, and paste the resulting link into your chat, issue, project, email, or pull request. The visual evidence travels with the explanation.

  • Automatic upload and clipboard copy
  • No viewer account for open links
  • View state for delivery confidence
  • Reactions below screenshots or at exact video moments
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Use existing channels

Creator Shots supplies the visual context; your established work system keeps discussion and ownership.

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Lightweight response

A reaction is a quick signal, not a new collaboration backlog.

Small-team operation

Share one workspace identity across the team.

Team adds member invitations and roles, centralized seat billing, shared domain and logo settings, workspace-only links, and admin visibility across member captures. It starts at two seats and stays focused on small-team needs.

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Invitations and roles

Add owners, admins, and members with boundaries around workspace management.

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Shared branding

Owners and admins configure the domain and logo used across team share pages.

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Workspace access

Require authenticated membership for internal captures that should stay with the team.

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Central billing

Manage paid seats through one Team subscription rather than disconnected individual plans.

Keep useful knowledge

Turn repeated explanations into an accessible visual library.

Search and filter the account library, favorite recurring references, and organize related captures into collections so useful visual explanations stay easy to find.

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Find by title and type

Search, sort, and filter screenshots and recordings, including view state.

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Keep important captures close

Favorite the explanations that continue to be useful.

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Collect related context

Group captures for onboarding, launches, support, design review, or a recurring process.

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Admin insight

Team owners and admins can inspect member-created content and workspace activity.

Made for creators

Built for the way creator businesses work.

Creator Shots is used inside Heights Platform, where our team has supported more than 10,000 creators building online knowledge businesses. We built the workflow around the visual explanations we send every day.

How we use Creator Shots

Start with the next thing you need to show

Make it clear. Make it yours.

The desktop app is free to use. Create an account and share with 1 GB of cloud storage.

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