Put Studio in a free Cloudflare account

Create your Cloudflare account

1. Open Cloudflare’s sign-up page in your browser: dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
2. Use an email address you check every day. A work address is fine. Pick a strong password and keep it somewhere safe.
3. Confirm your email: Cloudflare sends a link. Click it before you go on, or some steps will be refused. Check your spam folder if it does not arrive.
4. You can skip Cloudflare’s questions about adding a website. You don’t need one.

Turn on storage

Your screenshots and videos are stored in Cloudflare R2. Turn it on once for your account:

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, open Storage & databases → R2 → Overview.
2. Complete Cloudflare’s checkout to add R2 to your account. Add a card or PayPal if Cloudflare asks.

Your Studio dashboard shows how much storage you use. Cloudflare's R2 documentation, read in October 2026, says R2 is free to get started with included free monthly usage, and that you are billed for your usage on a monthly basis.

Get Studio on your computer

• On Windows: in Maxisnap, open Settings → Account → Maxisnap Studio setup wizard, click “Get started”, then “Download dashboard”. Maxisnap saves the Studio ZIP to your Downloads folder and opens that folder.
• On a Mac: in Maxisnap, open Settings → Welcome & Help → Studio Setup Guide, click “Get Started”, then “Download Dashboard”. Maxisnap saves the Studio ZIP to your Downloads folder.

Extract the ZIP. On Windows, right-click it and choose “Extract All”. On a Mac, double-click it.

Want your logo and colours from the start? Double-click “Maxisnap Studio - Start Here.html”, design your branding and click “Lock in my branding”. Your assistant uses it. Or skip it and change the branding later in your dashboard under Branding.

Hand it to your AI assistant

1. Open your AI coding assistant: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another one that can run commands on your computer.
2. Copy the ready-made instructions from the AI assistant guide, replace the line in angle brackets with your Studio folder, and paste them in.
3. Tell it that you have no website and want the free Cloudflare edition. It reads the instructions file in your Studio folder and explains each step before it does it.

Get the ready-made instructions.

The deploy tool needs Node.js 20 or newer on your computer; your assistant can check whether it is there. The instructions tell your assistant to ask you before it creates anything, and not to delete or replace anything that is already in your account.

Create a Cloudflare key when your assistant asks

The deploy needs permission to create your Studio in your account. You give it with a Cloudflare API token, which works like a password for this one job.

1. In Cloudflare, open My Profile → API Tokens, click “Create Token” and choose to create a custom token.
2. Add these four permissions: Account Settings Read, Workers Scripts Edit, Workers R2 Storage Edit and D1 Edit.
3. Click “Continue to summary”, then “Create Token”. Cloudflare shows the token only once, so copy it straight away.
4. When your assistant asks for it, paste the token into the terminal yourself, not into the chat.

Open Cloudflare’s API Tokens page.

Once your Studio is running you can delete the token. Your Studio keeps working; updating or removing it later needs a new token with the same permissions.

Pick your Studio’s address

1. Tell your assistant a Studio name with lowercase letters, numbers and dashes. The default is snaps.
2. If your Cloudflare account has no workers.dev name yet, the plan asks for one and your assistant asks you. It is shared by everything in this account and hard to change later, so your company name is a good choice.

Your address will look like this: snaps.yourcompany.workers.dev

You can add your own domain later without losing anything.

Check the plan, then create your Studio

Nothing is created until you say yes. Your assistant first runs the plan and shows it to you. “Will create” lists one Worker, one R2 bucket and one D1 database, plus your workers.dev name if it is new. “Will not touch” lists everything else in the account.

1. When the plan looks right, tell your assistant to go ahead. Creating your Studio takes about a minute.
2. If the deploy stops part-way, running the same command again continues from where it stopped without creating anything twice.

Save your Admin key

1. When it is done, the deploy shows your Studio’s address and its Admin key, once. Keep the key somewhere safe, like your password manager. You sign in to your dashboard with it, and anyone who has it can use your Studio.
2. It also writes a file called deployment.json in the cloudflare folder. Keep that file, because updating or removing your Studio later uses it.

Connect Maxisnap and try it

• Maxisnap for Windows: open Settings → Account → Maxisnap Studio setup wizard, click “Get started”, then “Next” until step 4, “Connect Maxisnap”. Paste your Studio’s address and key, click “Test connection”, then “Next”, then “Finish & Save” on the last page. The Admin key from setup works, and so does an upload code from People & access in your dashboard.
• Maxisnap for Mac: open Settings → Welcome & Help → Studio Setup Guide and choose “I already have a dashboard”. Paste your Studio’s address and key, click “Test Connection”, then “Next”, then “Finish & Save”.

Capture something and click “Upload” in the editor. On Windows, Ctrl+Alt+7 captures a region and uploads it straight away. The share link lands on your clipboard.

Maxisnap for Windows and Maxisnap for Mac send each upload to a Cloudflare Studio in one request, which it accepts up to 25 MB per file.

Next steps: add your team in the dashboard under People & access (everyone gets their own code and role), and change your logo or colours any time under Branding.