Monosnap Zapier integrationAutomate Monosnap with Zapier.
The Monosnap Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. When a new file lands in a Monosnap folder you choose, Zapier picks it up on its next check and passes it to the tool where your team will actually see it.
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What the Monosnap Zapier integration actually does
With Monosnap you grab or film your screen, mark it up, and keep the result online, ready to share. On Zapier it has one trigger, New File: when a file is added to a chosen folder, Zapier notices it on its next check and starts the Zap, which then hands the file on to your other tools.
Three results come up most. First, a team chat message for every new capture: New File starts the Zap and the second step tells the channel a file is ready. Second, a running log in a spreadsheet: each new file becomes a row, so you keep a record of what was captured in that folder. Third, a review task in your to-do tool: a capture meant for a tutorial turns into a task for whoever checks it. Which file details the trigger passes on, you see at the test.
Now what Zapier does not do here. Monosnap has no action and no search on Zapier: a Zap cannot upload, rename, move or delete a file in Monosnap, and it cannot look one up. The trigger also needs a Folder Id, and watches the folder you name there. And it works by polling, so files are picked up on Zapier's next check, not at the very moment they appear.
There is no n8n or Make page for Monosnap on this site. To compare the platforms in general, see our n8n vs Zapier guide or our Zapier review.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
The words you will meet in the editor, in plain English. The rest of the page uses them without defining them again.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap. Here it is New File: once the Zap is on, Zapier watches your Monosnap folder for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's count is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant trigger
- A polling trigger, like New File, is checked by Zapier at a fixed interval. An instant one is reported by the app itself.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
- Connection
- Your Monosnap account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step and every Zap that uses the app.
What a Monosnap Zap really costs
Monosnap is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. New File never costs a task, however often Zapier checks the folder. Only the action after it counts, and only when it succeeds.
- New File0 task, checks are free
- Each successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited two-step Zaps
- Premium appNo
The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to two steps: New File plus one action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. A failed action is not counted. Because New File is a polling trigger, the grid below decides how often Zapier looks for new files: every 15 minutes on Free, down to every minute on Team and Enterprise, whatever action follows.
Connect Monosnap to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open your Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. What you need first: an account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Find Monosnap
Type Monosnap in the search box of the dialog, pick it, then click Add connection. A new browser tab then opens so you can sign in to your Monosnap account.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to Monosnap in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection is saved once, and every Monosnap Zap you build from then on reuses it.
Your first Monosnap Zap
GoalPost a team chat message when a new file lands in your Monosnap folder, but only when it meets a condition you set.
- 01
Build: set the trigger
Create a Zap, pick Monosnap and New File, then your connection. Paste the Folder Id copied from the folder's address in Monosnap.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real file and see which details it carries.
- 03
Add a filter (paid plan)
Click the plus icon and add Filter. Fill in the field to look at, the rule and the value. A filter makes the Zap multi-step, so this step needs a paid plan.
- 04
Add the chat message
Add your team chat as the action, pick the channel and map the file details you saw at the test into the text of the message.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the action and read what came back. When the message looks right, click Publish. Zapier then checks the folder at your plan's interval.
The Monosnap trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Monosnap. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New File
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when creating(loading) a new File.”
Starts your Zap when a new file is created or uploaded in the Monosnap folder you point it to. Screenshots and recordings then reach the rest of your tools without anyone sharing them by hand.
When a Monosnap Zap breaks
Zapier lists no help article and no rate limit specific to Monosnap. The cases below come from the general rules that every Zap follows.
Four of them are worth knowing before you publish. For anything else, see our Zapier troubleshooting page.
Files already in the folder are skipped
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Captures already in the folder are not picked up; sharing that backlog is a separate job.The same file, once only
On a polling trigger like New File, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so the same file does not start the Zap twice.A bulk upload held back
If the folder suddenly returns a huge batch at once, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back.A Zap that sets itself off
As a general precaution: a Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again and burn through your tasks.
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