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24 alternatives to rrweb

Open source JS library to record and replay the web

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. rrweb launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web▲353

   Embeddable session replay infrastructure on rrweb, the open source standard. Unbranded SDK, ingest on your domain, replay through your API. Free tier included.

   2018 · rrweb.io · its alternatives →

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   rrweb 1.0▲120

   The most popular open-source session replay library

   2021 · rrweb.com · its alternatives →

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   Session Replays by Requestly▲518

   Debug web apps faster with record & replay

   2023 · requestly.com · its alternatives →

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   RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing▲50

   Hi HN, I'm one of the founders of s2.dev. RePlaya (https://github.com/s2-streamstore/replaya) is a self-hosted browser session replay tool using rrweb (https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb). It occurred to me that a durable stream per session would be a much neater architectural foundation for much of what you'd want from such a tool. As a unique feature, it also made live tailing straightforward because the player can read from the same stream the recorder is appending to. The alternative architecture is likely an ingest firehose which is then indexed,…

   Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Replay▲279

   Your time travel debugger

   2021 · replay.io · its alternatives →

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   DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps▲367

   Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

   2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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   WeWeb▲537

   Create websites faster with a next-generation visual builder

   2021 · weweb.io · its alternatives →

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   Session Replay by Zarget▲338

   See how visitors view and use your site.

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   Fullstory Free▲654

   Web analytics with full session playback, now free

   2017 · fullstory.com · its alternatives →

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    I made tool that let's you see everything about any website▲411

    Yes, it's open source: https://github.com/lissy93/web-check :) Why I'm building this? There are a lot of tools out there for discovering meta and security data relating to a website, IP or server. But currently, there isn't anything that does everything, all in one place and without a paywall/ user sign up. It's still a WIP, and I'm working on a new version, with some more comprehensive checks, so any feedback would be much appreciated :)

    2024 · v1.web-check.xyz · its alternatives →

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    SessionStack▲226

    See your product and website issues through your users’ eyes

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    RootCause – Record, Replay and Reproduce JavaScript Errors▲98

    RootCause helps you track and reproduce javascript errors. You can replay user sessions to avoid extensive troubleshooting and fix application issues in no time.

    2018 · therootcause.io · its alternatives →

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    Webdash▲268

    A customizable web dashboard for your web projects

    2018 · webdash.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Replay QA▲438

    Replay QA tells you what is broken before your users do

    Jul 2026 · qa.replay.io · its alternatives →

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    66Analytics▲260

    Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.

    2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source lib to summarize sessions (rrweb) when users hit bugs▲11

    Hi HN, Rohan and Michael here from Decipher (https://getdecipher.com/). We’re excited to introduce AI-generated session summaries and open source the pipeline. It processes raw rrweb events to produce plain English summaries of what happened leading up to and around an error. You can find the code here: https://github.com/decipherai/session-replay-analyzer We created Decipher because we were frustrated with noisy alerts, time-consuming error triaging, and customer churn due to bugs and session replay analysis is a powerful step forward. Here’s an…

    2024 · getdecipher.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever▲286

    Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware. The key point: This doesn't touch Reddit's servers. Ever. Download the Pushshift dataset, run my tool locally, get a fully browsable archive. Works on an air-gapped machine. Works on a Raspberry Pi serving your LAN. Works on a USB drive you hand to someone. What it does: Takes compressed data dumps…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LogRocket – Record and Replay for Redux Apps▲111

    LogRocket helps you understand problems affecting your users, so that you can get back to building great software.

    2016 · logrocket.com · its alternatives →

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    ScreenREC▲289

    Free online screen recorder | no download required

    Dec 2025 · screen-rec.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Unlogged – open-source record and replay for Java▲90

    Hello HN! Parth, and Shardul here. We have been building unlogged.io for the last 21 months. We started as a time travel debugger and pivoted to record and replay with assertions, mocking, and code coverage. You can save the replays in the form of a JSON and commit them to your git. Both Parth and I come from an e-commerce/payments background where production bugs meant heavy financial losses. Big billion days/Black Friday sales meant months of code freezes with low productivity. Before committing the code, we wanted to replay production traffic and know the breaking changes right…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Session Rewind▲88

    Session replay that's 90% cheaper than FullStory

    2022 · sessionrewind.com · its alternatives →

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    GoatDB – A lightweight, offline-first, realtime NoDB for Deno and React▲90

    Hey HN, We've been experimenting with a real-time, version-controlled NoDB for Deno & React called GoatDB. The idea is to remove backend complexity while keeping apps fast, offline-resilient, and easy to self-host. Runs on the client – No backend required, incremental queries keep things efficient. Self-hosted & lightweight – Deploy a single executable, no server stack needed. Offline-first & resilient – Clients work independently & can restore state after server outages. Edge-native & fast – Real-time sync happens locally with minimal overhead. Why We Built It: We needed something that’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wirequery – Full-stack session replay and more▲80

    WireQuery is the first full-stack session replay and API call exploration tool. Using WireQuery, you get a holistic overview of how an issue came into existence. - wirequery/wirequery

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ArchiveBox▲121

    The open-source, self-hosted internet archiving solution

    2019 · archivebox.io · its alternatives →

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