We’re always working hard to ensure the Replayable app is the best it can be, and the newest version has everything you’ve been asking for and more! It’s faster, sleeker, and has lots of new features that make it easier than ever to catch bugs and document your work.
Cropping capabilities are here! When it comes to picking and choosing what you want to be recorded, we hear you. You wanted more control, and you got it! Now you can select which part of your screen you want to replay.
On top of that, you can capture activity on ALL displays with a simple click of a button. No more agonizing over which is most important to record. Replayable has you covered!
Replayable for Windows just got 3xs more efficient! We’ve moved from the encoding strategy vp9 to h264, reducing the app’s usage of CPU and memory. Check out the test numbers below using a 4k monitor:
CPU: 18.6% down to 5.8%
Memory: 815.7MB to 262.1MB
This also means that replays recorded on PCs will work on iPhone and Safari!
Improvements & bug fixes
The app now prevents navigation of unauthorized sites
Resources are always limited, so why use more than you have to? We’ve disabled hardware acceleration in the newest version of the app to lighten the load.
How did we do it?
Electron applications default to a hardware accelerated mode which allows for 3D CSS and opengl acceleration. Through testing we found that there’s only downside. Since we’re not using 3D CSS nor opengl–nor do we plan to –disabling hardware acceleration just skips a frame buffer copy step which reduces the app CPU and GPU footprint.
In other words, it’s more efficient!
Other improvements & bug fixes
Screenshot images are smaller, so uploads feel snappier
Screen recording permissions dialog match permissions state
Uprezzed windows tray icon
MacOS no longer breaks when a space is in the directory path set from Settings
Do all of your bug reports have enough information to reproduce the issue? We didn’t thinks so. Replayable helps developers catch, reproduce, and fix bugs quickly by ensuring that all bug reports contain the context they need to be fixed. Here’s an example of one company who, while upgrading their software, used Replayable to optimize their developer experience.
What did they get out of it?
14 hours per week (2 x 1 hour bug triage meetings x 7 people) saved
Time to reproduce the bugs themselves
Happier developers
Like many companies, Hookah-shisha is in the middle of a big migration. They’re moving to the popular Magento platform. However, during the migration they found a variety of bugs in their new system.
When anyone encountered a bug, they’d forward it to the US development team, who was responsible for triaging it and making a ticket for the development team in Dubai. Between timezones, meetings, and communication barriers, by the time the ticket made it to the development team there wasn’t enough context to get the issue fixed. Half the time someone encountered a bug they weren’t able to reproduce it.
A developer on the US team who was responsible for fixing bugs identified the problem and realized that if there were video recordings of the bugs, they’d be so much easier for the development team to fix.
One of the developers found Replayable and helped the entire US team install it on their computers. Now, whenever someone encounters a bug, they can capture a replay of it. That replay is attached to a Jira ticket, and the Dubai team has enough information to reproduce it!
The US team was able to cancel their twice-weekly triage call, not to mention save all that time reproducing bugs locally (and even catching bugs that they wouldn’t have otherwise).
If you’re interested in how you can help your developers catch, reproduce, and fix problems in your software faster, sign up for our beta today!
It’s easy to tell when the app is recording with our new count-up feature! Instead of counting down to the start of recording, the timer counts up during the recording itself. You can tell the length of your clip at a glance.
Other improvements & bug fixes
Windows users, the app no longer flashes when toggled from Tray.
The Windows app now has a subtle but visible border.
We fixed a bug that was hiding the app when users hit Cancel on “Select Screen” dialog.
Adding and removing monitors while recording now causes many fewer crashes.
An npm security audit removed several unused and vulnerable packages.
Beta testers have been asking how to delete recordings they don’t want to upload, and now they can. Get rid of clips that contain private information or that you just don’t need with just a couple of clicks!
Other improvements & bug fixes
The Replayable app icon will no longer appear in your desktop dock.
If you’re only using one screen, it will automatically be selected to record.
The app rescales gracefully when changing monitors with different scaling ratios.
