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24 alternatives to Zipy

Debug instantly with session playback and monitoring in one

Zipy is a debugging platform that combines user session replay with frontend and network monitoring. It helps developers identify and fix errors by replaying sessions in real time and accessing dev tools, stack traces… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zipy launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    Hey HN commmunity, Karthik here! Super stoked to announce the launch of Zipy today. Launching the product that you've been so dearly working on for months is like sending your newborn to school for the first time. Excitement to nervousness, anxiety to thrill, all sorts of emotions hit you at the same time. But the entire team of Zipy is confidently looking forward to the feedback you guys have in store for the beautiful product we’ve built. In community we trust! Over the past decade, from being a Web Development Intern to a UX Designer and a Product Manager, I have seen the struggles that…

    2022 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Record sessions, fix bugs, improve experience with AI

    2023 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Debug web apps faster with record & replay

    2023 · requestly.com · its alternatives →

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    Anyone can record and replay browser sessions and fix network failures, JS exceptions, and console errors. Can be used by Development, Support, Product, and Growth teams.

    2023 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →

  5. 5AW

    Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…

    2024 · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Oopsie▲706

    Debug Flutter & React Native apps with AI & Session Replays

    2024 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Replay▲279

    Your time travel debugger

    2021 · replay.io · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Automated Penetration Testing for AI-Built Apps

    2021 · replay.io · its alternatives →

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    Capture bugs, record sessions, and fix with AI

    2024 · betterbugs.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Adrien and Kanav. We met at our previous job, where we spent about a third of our lives combating a constant firehose of bugs. In the hope of reducing this pain for others in the future, we’re working on automating debugging. We’re currently working on a platform that ingests logs and then automatically reproduces, root causes and ultimately fixes production bugs as they happen. You can see some of our work on this here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528087 As we were building the root-cause phase of our automated debugger, we realized that we developed…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲234

    Uptime, performance, SSL certificate and asset monitoring.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Brevy▲354

    Loom for designers, PMs, and engineers

    2022 · brevy.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Web analytics with full session playback, now free

    2017 · fullstory.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲606

    Never write another web scraper

    2016 · crawly.diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    See how visitors view and use your site.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Replace live meetings with async video messages

    2022 · clarityflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’re open-sourcing highlight.io (https://github.com/highlight/highlight), a session replay and error monitoring tool. Highlight.io gives you a high-precision video-like replay of what users are doing when an error or exception occurs in your web app, along with a full-fledged error monitoring experience (similar to bugsnag, rollbar, etc..). The main value prop of highlight.io is that we help you understand the full context surrounding an error and allow you to drill down to the code path that a user invoked (i.e user clicked button X, sent network request Y, and…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Add video chat inside your website or application in seconds

    2020 · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Heap by Contentsquare is the only digital insights platform that shows everything users do on your site, revealing the "unknown unknowns" that stay invisible with other tools.

    2013 · heapanalytics.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Fix bugs faster with open source, AI native observability

    2025 · traceroot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Telebugs▲391

    Hey hackers! In January 2025, I started building Telebugs. It's an installable error tracker that works with Sentry SDKs. I come from a Rails background and previously worked at an error tracking/APM company, so I figured: why not build my own? I wanted a simple, reliable tool I could own outright, without surprise bills for overages. Telebugs is built with Rails 8, Hotwire, TailwindCSS, and SQLite. Like 37signals’ ONCE products (my inspiration), it’s pay-once: prep your hardware, run one command, and you’ll be up and running in 10 minutes (5 minutes refers to the actual installation…

    2025 · telebugs.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Front-end website performance monitoring

    2018 · debugbear.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Super-powered loom for bug reporting and visual feedback

    2022 · disbug.io · its alternatives →

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    Proxyman▲196

    An modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy

    2019 · proxyman.com · its alternatives →

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