Product thinking, release notes, and comparison guides for teams building with visual regression testing.
Subscribe via RSSFixed ignore regions can hide real layout bugs. Smart ignore regions use Honeydiff's change metadata to find recurring dynamic areas without removing them from visual review.
Smart Ignore Regions are no longer part of Vizzly. This post is kept as release history.
Read articleUse the Vizzly CLI schema to find API requests for builds, screenshots, diffs, and review details.
Read articleVizzly now hosts your app builds alongside visual diffs. Upload any static build (Storybook, Next.js, Vite, whatever) and reviewers see the real UI, not just screenshots. Here's why we built it and how it works.
Read articleStructured CLI output and API schema discovery make Vizzly useful in scripts and coding tools.
Read articleHot spot regions now work in local TDD mode for smarter auto-approval. We also fixed some Puppeteer issues in the Storybook and Static-Site SDKs by migrating to Playwright, plus a handful of CI quality-of-life improvements.
The local hot spot feature in this post is no longer part of Vizzly. The Playwright and CI updates still apply.
Read articleYour visual testing tool should get smarter over time, not dumber. Here's how Vizzly learns from your approval patterns to surface what actually matters.
The learning and automatic approval features in this post are no longer part of Vizzly.
Read articleBring visual regression testing to your Ember acceptance tests without changing how you write them. The new Ember SDK uses Testem's custom launcher system to run browsers through Playwright, capturing screenshots directly from your real test environment.
Read articleWe shipped a lot this month. User-controlled hot spot regions, real-time SSE updates, a branded CLI with our bear mascot, mobile review UI, and the TDD dashboard picked up the current BearDen-style token language.
The hot spot and automatic approval sections describe features that are no longer part of Vizzly.
Read articleWe build visual testing tools for UIs. When our CLI started getting fancy with colors and formatting, I wondered: can we visually test our own CLI? Turns out, yes. Here's how I did it.
Read articleA story about refactoring the Vizzly CLI with an AI pair programmer, fighting with macOS security daemons, switching test frameworks mid-flight, and learning that sometimes you need to throw everything away and start over.
Read articleI’ve been quiet on the blog for a bit. Here’s what we’ve been working on: CIEDE2000 color science, cluster-based noise filtering, BearDen-inspired local tokens, hotspot filtering in TDD, Swift SDK improvements, and more.
The hotspot filtering section describes a feature that is no longer part of Vizzly. The other release notes remain useful history.
Read articleI benchmarked Honeydiff against the best tools in visual testing. 9-16x faster than odiff's SIMD-optimized Zig rewrite. Faster than anything Playwright, Cypress, or Percy use under the hood. Here's the data.
Read articleNearly half of visual test reviews are wasted on timestamps, session IDs, and dynamic content. Here's how Vizzly's auto-approval system gives you that time back.
The automatic approval and hot spot features in this post are no longer part of Vizzly.
Read articleVisual regression testing is now available for native iOS and macOS apps. The Swift SDK brings Vizzly's TDD-focused visual testing workflow to XCTest, making it easy to catch UI bugs before they ship.
Read articleDrop-in replacement for Vitest 4 visual testing with local TDD mode, Honeydiff, and team review. Add the plugin and get local visual feedback, cloud builds, and position-based comments.
Read articleI built Honeydiff, a Rust-powered image diffing engine that processes screenshots in milliseconds and provides rich metrics like spatial clustering, SSIM scoring, and intensity statistics. Here's what makes it special and why visual testing needed a fresh direction.
Read articleLog in with your Vizzly account, link each checkout to its project, and run cloud visual tests without copying tokens between directories.
Read articleGot a static site? Now you can visually test every page without writing tests. The new Static Site SDK auto-discovers pages, captures screenshots, and handles comparisons. Works with Gatsby, Astro, Jekyll, Next.js, and any static site generator.
Read articleThe Vizzly Storybook SDK brings component stories into a visual development workflow with local TDD, cloud builds, comments, and review decisions.
Read articleLearn how to add visual regression testing to Cypress with Vizzly. Catch CSS bugs and UI changes with automated screenshot comparison in your existing test suite.
Read articleIntegrate visual quality into your Playwright workflow. See visual changes instantly with local TDD, then collaborate with your team through automatic CI builds.
Read articleIntegrate Vizzly with Detox, Maestro, Appium, Fastlane, or plain simulator screenshots. Make visual quality part of your React Native development workflow with local TDD and seamless CI/CD integration.
Read articleVisual testing tools miss the point. They treat visual quality as an afterthought, offer basic collaboration, and test recreated environments instead of reality. After building visual testing SDKs for years, I created Vizzly to do it right.
Read articleA quick guide to getting Vizzly's Open Source plan set up for public projects. Run visual tests and review changes together, with no charge for qualifying public projects.
Read articleHow we're using Vizzly's public properties feature to keep our documentation screenshots automatically fresh and our workflows intact.
Read articleSee how Vizzly can streamline your team’s review workflow. Start the free plan in minutes.