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Visual testing and review service from the Storybook team that snapshots stories and Playwright/Cypress tests.

BrowserStack's visual testing platform with cross-browser snapshots and AI-assisted diff review.

Open-source visual testing platform integrating with Playwright, Cypress and Storybook in CI.

Self-hosted visual regression testing for web apps using headless Chrome/Playwright and HTML reports.

Head to head

Metric	Chromatic	Percy	Argos	BackstopJS
Stars	n/a	n/a	657	7.2k
Weekly downloads	11.2M	594k	199k	77.4k
Download growth	+6%	+3%	+38%	-10%
Popularity score	86/100	71/100	59/100	65/100
Forks	n/a	n/a	71	618
Open issues	n/a	n/a	4	576
Last commit	n/a	n/a	5d ago	4w ago
Latest version	18.14.3	1.32.12	6.11.0	6.3.25
License	n/a	n/a	MIT	MIT
First released	n/a	n/a	2016	2014
Signals	Popular	None	Rising	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing

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Visual testing and review service from the Storybook team that snapshots stories and Playwright/Cypress tests.

BrowserStack's visual testing platform with cross-browser snapshots and AI-assisted diff review.

Open-source visual testing platform integrating with Playwright, Cypress and Storybook in CI.

Self-hosted visual regression testing for web apps using headless Chrome/Playwright and HTML reports.

Metric	Chromatic	Percy	Argos	BackstopJS
Stars	n/a	n/a	657	7.2k
Weekly downloads	11.2M	594k	199k	77.4k
Download growth	+6%	+3%	+38%	-10%
Popularity score	86/100	71/100	59/100	65/100
Forks	n/a	n/a	71	618
Open issues	n/a	n/a	4	576
Last commit	n/a	n/a	5d ago	4w ago
Latest version	18.14.3	1.32.12	6.11.0	6.3.25
License	n/a	n/a	MIT	MIT
First released	n/a	n/a	2016	2014
Signals	Popular	None	Rising	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing

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