Uindow vs. Cypress
Stop wrestling a test runner into doing your chores.
Cypress is a joy - if you're a developer testing software you own. But downloading statements, filling the same forms again, and clicking through that portal that still looks like 2009? That's not a test suite. It's a chore. Uindow does chores - like a real person, from your own machine, with a learning curve of roughly zero.
Built for your chores, not your CI
Trusted input, real recordings, and results you can actually keep - private by default, yours to share when you want.
Uindow
Cypress
Results you can actually use
Cypress is great at front-end testing: it tells you whether your app passed or failed. Uindow hands you the goods. Every run saves the files it downloads, plus screenshots, full video, structured tables, and detailed logs - all searchable, filterable, and exportable from the results screen, as real files on your machine.
Trusted events, every time
- Every click, keystroke, and scroll Uindow makes is a trusted, OS-level event, so native dialogs, file pickers, dropdowns, and hover states simply behave.
- Cypress fires events from JavaScript, so
event.isTrustedisfalse- which is why teams reach for thecypress-real-eventsplugin (Chromium only) to patch the gaps.
Full video of every run
Recording runs in a separate worker, so it never drops a frame - not during page loads, reloads, or failures. Replay exactly what happened, whenever you want, straight from the results screen.
A recorder that writes it for you
Hit record, use the browser like you always do, and Uindow turns your clicks into clean, deterministic JavaScript. No AI guessing, no syntax to learn. Going pro later is optional, not required.
Waits for you when it matters
Some steps need a person: a login, a captcha, a one-time code. Uindow pauses mid-run, asks you to step in, and picks up exactly where it left off - so a single wall doesn't sink the whole automation.
State that carries between runs
Each runner gets a persistent global store that remembers values from one run to the next, plus a run-level store that resets cleanly every time - both readable and writable from your modules.
Inputs kept out of your code
A module's inputs - logins, files, anything sensitive - live separately from its source. Hand someone the automation and nothing secret comes with it, and you decide exactly which files each run may touch.
Modules you can read and share
Automations are portable
.js.yaml modules: genuinely human-readable, easy to diff and debug, and yours to keep private or publish for everyone. Try that with a proprietary cloud test platform.Private by default
Uindow runs entirely on your machine; your credentials, tokens, and the sites you automate never leave it. Cypress's cloud, by contrast, is exactly where your runs and recordings go to live.
CLI and MCP, built in
Drive Uindow from the command line or hand it to any AI agent over MCP - both ship inside the app. Cypress has a CLI for your test suite, but no way to give an agent a real browser.
A local, private LLM
Need a model to summarize or classify mid-run? Call a small LLM running right on your machine: private, offline, and zero cost per step.
The best selectors, open-sourced
Stop hand-writing brittle selectors. Explore any page inside Uindow and get the single best CSS selector in one click - no DevTools. Our engine treats selection as a search problem, ranks every candidate, and emits readable compound selectors with fallbacks already computed. We open-sourced the whole thing as @uindow/css.
Built for humans, not hackers
Uindow isn't for anti-bot obsessives. It's for teachers, office workers, and anyone stuck clicking through a site that refuses to release an API. Ease of use, privacy, and peace of mind come first - the realism is just a happy bonus.
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