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Alternatives to Applitools

Selenium, Percy, Galen, BrowserStack, and Testim are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Applitools.
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What is Applitools and what are its top alternatives?

Applitools delivers the next generation of test automation powered by AI assisted computer vision technology known as Visual AI. Visual AI helps Developers, Test Automation Engineers and QA professionals release high-quality web and mobile
Applitools is a tool in the In-Browser Testing category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Applitools

  • Selenium
    Selenium

    Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well. ...

  • Percy
    Percy

    Percy highlights the visual changes in your UI that are introduced by each pull request. It saves your team time and stress reducing your manual QA. ...

  • Galen
    Galen

    It is a tool for testing layout of responsive web apps. It is based on Selenium and has a special language for testing page layout ...

  • BrowserStack
    BrowserStack

    BrowserStack is a leading software testing platform for developers to comprehensively test their websites and mobile applications across 2,000+ real browsers and devices in a single cloud platform—and at scale. ...

  • Testim
    Testim

    It uses artificial intelligence to speed-up the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. ...

  • Chrome DevTools
    Chrome DevTools

    It is a set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser. It can help you edit pages on-the-fly and diagnose problems quickly, which ultimately helps you build better websites, faster ...

  • Ghost Inspector
    Ghost Inspector

    It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks. ...

  • Requestly
    Requestly

    Requestly is a lightweight proxy available as a browser extension & desktop app to intercept & modify network requests. Using Requestly you can Modify Headers, Redirect URL, Mock API response, Delay/Throttle requests, etc. ...

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Selenium logo

Selenium

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PROS OF SELENIUM
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    Automates browsers
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    Testing
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    Essential tool for running test automation
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    Record-Playback
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    Remote Control
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    Data crawling
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    Supports end to end testing
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    Functional testing
  • 6
    Easy set up
  • 4
    The Most flexible monitoring system
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    End to End Testing
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    Easy to integrate with build tools
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    Comparing the performance selenium is faster than jasm
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    Record and playback
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    Compatible with Python
  • 2
    Easy to scale
  • 2
    Integration Tests
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    Integrated into Selenium-Jupiter framework
CONS OF SELENIUM
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    Flaky tests
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    Slow as needs to make browser (even with no gui)
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    Update browser drivers

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Kamil Kowalski
Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 2.7M views

When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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Benjamin Poon
QA Manager - Engineering at HBC Digital · | 8 upvotes · 1.4M views

For our digital QA organization to support a complex hybrid monolith/microservice architecture, our team took on the lofty goal of building out a commonized UI test automation framework. One of the primary requisites included a technical minimalist threshold such that an engineer or analyst with fundamental knowledge of JavaScript could automate their tests with greater ease. Just to list a few: - Nightwatchjs - Selenium - Cucumber - GitHub - Go.CD - Docker - ExpressJS - React - PostgreSQL

With this structure, we're able to combine the automation efforts of each team member into a centralized repository while also providing new relevant metrics to business owners.

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Percy logo

Percy

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PROS OF PERCY
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    5K free snapshots per month
CONS OF PERCY
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    Crazy expensive unless you use it a LOT

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Hi Team, I am looking for a tool to best work on visual test automation - Just to capture screenshots each day and compare on the pre-production site.

Currently, I am evaluating Percy, Ghost Inspector, and Applitools (no doubt Applitools is great with its comparison mechanism but cost-wise it's a bit on the higher end at the moment). Could you please let me know which one will be the best tool for visual comparisons?

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Chris Slater

Hi there, what tool would you recommend for screenshot comparison tool for Drupal sites? I'm leaning towards Percy as it does everything we need (i.e screenshot comparison only), but want to make sure I make the right choice and don't miss out on anything by choosing it over Ghost Inspector.

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Galen logo

Galen

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Automated testing of responsive design and html layout for web applications
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PROS OF GALEN
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      BrowserStack

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      BrowserStack is a software testing platform for developers to comprehensively test websites and mobile applications
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      PROS OF BROWSERSTACK
      • 132
        Multiple browsers
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        Ease of use
      • 61
        Real browsers
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        Ability to use it locally
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        Good price
      • 18
        Great web interface
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        IE support
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        Official mobile emulators
      • 12
        Cloud-based access
      • 12
        Instant access
      • 9
        Real mobile devices
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        Multiple Desktop OS
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        Selenium compatible
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        Screenshots
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        Can be used for Testing and E2E
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        Pre-installed developer tools
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        Video of test runs
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        Webdriver compatible
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        Many browsers
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        Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing
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        Favourites
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        Free for Open Source
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        Cypress Compatible
      CONS OF BROWSERSTACK
      • 2
        Very limited choice of minor versions

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      Zarema Khalilova
      Frontend Team Lead at Uploadcare · | 6 upvotes · 285K views

      I am working on #OpenSource file uploader. The uploader is the widget that other developers embed in their apps. It should work well in different browsers and on different devices. BrowserStack and Sauce Labs help to achieve that. I can test the uploader in many varieties of browsers+OS only used my browser without virtual machines.

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      Testim logo

      Testim

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      Artificial intelligence based test automation
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      PROS OF TESTIM
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          Chrome DevTools logo

          Chrome DevTools

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          A set of web developer tools
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          PROS OF CHROME DEVTOOLS
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              Ghost Inspector

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              PROS OF GHOST INSPECTOR
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                No code required
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                Runscope integration
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                Simple test editor
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                Screenshot comparison
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                Videos of every test run
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                Primarily focus on functional testing
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                Easy to use API enables remote control
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                Data-Driven testing
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                Minimal effort to migrate to another tool like Selenium
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                Partials and Variables enable fast test creation
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                30-40 in-parallel tests for cheap
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                Detailed Documentation
              • 1
                Supports end to end testing with Runscope
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                Extensive Integrations available
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                Scheduling tests
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                Licensed but cheaper compared to other tools
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                Email notification and Alerts
              CONS OF GHOST INSPECTOR
              • 0
                Load & Performance testing
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                Flash Support inside browser
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                Support Cross-device testing (device, web)

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              Hi Team, I am looking for a tool to best work on visual test automation - Just to capture screenshots each day and compare on the pre-production site.

              Currently, I am evaluating Percy, Ghost Inspector, and Applitools (no doubt Applitools is great with its comparison mechanism but cost-wise it's a bit on the higher end at the moment). Could you please let me know which one will be the best tool for visual comparisons?

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              Chris Slater

              Hi there, what tool would you recommend for screenshot comparison tool for Drupal sites? I'm leaning towards Percy as it does everything we need (i.e screenshot comparison only), but want to make sure I make the right choice and don't miss out on anything by choosing it over Ghost Inspector.

              See more
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              Requestly

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              Intercept & Modify network requests
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