Inspect, debug, test, and verify, with one connected evidence trail.
Ansight's biggest advantage is the combination of its capabilities in one tool. Live app control, framework inspection, app-owned data, performance analysis, and automated verification all connect through deeply captured sessions.
A debugging session becomes the starting point for a regression test. A failed test becomes the starting point for an investigation. Screenshots, visual trees, logs, network activity, metrics, and annotations preserve the context agents need to move between those workflows.
01 · Every run
Every run becomes useful beyond its original purpose.
| Start with | Use Ansight to | Carry forward |
|---|---|---|
| A debugging session | Investigate the failure, identify the relevant actions and state, and use that evidence to author a regression test. | The reproduction context and the checks that define correct behaviour. |
| A failed test | Inspect the captured runtime evidence around the failure. | Screenshots, trees, logs, network activity, and available performance data. |
| An unexpected UI result | Cross-reference the screen with framework properties, SQLite results, and exposed application state. | Evidence of whether the problem is visual, persisted, or internal. |
| A performance problem | Connect a slow interaction to captured metrics and profiling evidence. | Measurements that can inform repeatable performance checks. |
| A proposed fix | Repeat the relevant workflow and check its visible and internal results. | Evidence supporting whether the fix worked. |
| An engineer handoff | Export the captured session with annotations and relevant artifacts. | A shared investigation record another engineer or agent can inspect. |
The session connects the work. Agents can use the evidence from one activity to guide the next, reducing the need to reconstruct context from disconnected screenshots, logs, and test reports.
02 · Capabilities
The capabilities that make this possible.
| Capability | What Ansight brings together | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Deep session capture | Screenshots, visual trees, logs, network events, touches, metrics, artifacts, and annotations. | Preserve the runtime context around a failure for investigation and verification. |
| Live app control | Semantic UI selection, input, navigation, waits, and assertions. | Let agents reproduce behaviour and check the result in the running app. |
| Framework-aware inspection | MAUI bindings and diagnostics, Flutter widget information, React Native component inspection, and native view access. | Explain behaviour using information beyond the visible screen. |
| App-data verification | Read-only SQLite queries and concrete database assertions. | Verify persisted results alongside UI state. |
| App-defined tools | Guarded operations that expose your application's own diagnostics and domain state. | Give agents direct answers about behaviour specific to your app. |
| Guarded state changes | Supported property mutations, framework actions, and custom operations. | Investigate behaviour and prepare verification scenarios with controlled access. |
| Repository tests | Agent-driven scenarios, validation instructions, execution results, and retained audits. | Turn investigation findings into reusable verification. |
| Scripted tasks and triggers | Repository-controlled operations, tool composition, and event-driven automation. | Reuse diagnostic and verification procedures across workflows. |
| Native profiling | Instruments and Perfetto integration. | Investigate performance with platform profiling tools. |
| Performance Trends | Historical measurements, percentiles, and memory-growth analysis. | Identify changes across runs and inform performance checks. |
| Evidence correlation | Action identifiers, timestamps, captured trees, screenshots, and assertion results. | Follow an interaction through its associated runtime evidence. |
| Annotations and handoff | Timeline and UI-target context, portable archives, and historical session review. | Preserve what matters when work moves between people or agents. |
| Configurable sanitisation | Policies for redacting captured content, screenshots, and exported artifacts. | Prepare evidence for handoff with deliberate control over its contents. |
| Physical and virtual devices | SDK-connected runtime inspection on supported hardware, simulators, and emulators. | Investigate behaviour in the environments relevant to your app. |
03 · One workflow
More value from every investigation and every test.
Ansight makes debugging and testing parts of the same workflow. Debugging produces evidence that helps agents create better tests. Tests produce evidence that helps agents diagnose failures. Verification checks the outcome against both the interface and the application state exposed to Ansight.
That connected workflow is the reason to choose Ansight: one tool that carries context from discovering a problem to proving the fix.
Capabilities vary by SDK, platform, and enabled tools. Agents use captured evidence to author tests. Automatic conversion of every session into a reliable test is not implied.
04 · Alternatives
Why choose Ansight?
Ansight combines app control, deep runtime inspection, session capture, and verification in one connected workflow. A debugging session provides evidence for a new test. A failed test provides evidence for debugging. The context carries forward into investigation, regression coverage, and verification.
| Alternative | What it offers | Why choose Ansight |
|---|---|---|
| agent-device | Agent-operated devices, runtime diagnostics, React inspection, recorded flows, and CI. | Choose Ansight when you want SDK-exposed application state, guarded domain tools, and rich historical sessions connected to repository verification. |
| Argent | Agent-driven interaction, JavaScript debugging, native inspection, networking, profiling, and replay, with platform-specific limits. | Choose Ansight when your workflow needs captured runtime evidence to remain useful across debugging, test creation, failed-test investigation, and handoff. |
| XcodeBuildMCP | Apple build, test, simulator automation, and LLDB workflows. | Choose Ansight for a shared runtime-evidence workflow across supported mobile frameworks, alongside platform build and debugger tools. |
| Momentic | AI-assisted regression testing, repository tests, local or hosted mobile execution, and results analysis. | Choose Ansight when testing is part of a broader investigation requiring app-owned state, framework diagnostics, and reusable session evidence. |
| TesterArmy | Managed natural-language tests and PR verification from a URL or compiled app. | Choose Ansight when you want your coding agent to investigate the application's exposed internals and carry that context into subsequent tests. |
| MobileBoost | AI mobile testing, native test-framework integrations, and diagnostic run artifacts. | Choose Ansight for app-defined runtime tools and a session-based workflow connecting live investigation, scripted tasks, tests, and performance analysis. |
| Maestro | Device-level YAML flows, visual authoring, agent access, and hosted execution. | Choose Ansight when verification needs to connect UI behaviour with database state, framework properties, and captured runtime events. |
| Appium | Extensible automation across languages, drivers, and devices, including agent integration. | Choose Ansight for an integrated inspection and evidence layer around automation. Ansight can complement Appium and uses it for physical-iOS input. |
| Detox | React Native end-to-end testing with awareness of asynchronous app activity. | Choose Ansight when you also need broader runtime investigation, app-owned diagnostic tools, and historical sessions beyond the test itself. |
| Patrol | Flutter widget testing combined with native-platform interactions and agent access. | Choose Ansight when Flutter verification also needs application-data inspection, captured runtime context, and investigation across supported stacks. |
| BrowserStack | Real-device infrastructure, automated execution, reporting, and debugging artifacts. | Choose Ansight for the application-owned inspection and session workflow. Keep device-cloud infrastructure where you need device coverage. |
| Sentry | Production errors, performance telemetry, and historical incident context. | Choose Ansight to investigate and verify behaviour in development apps through live control, exposed internal state, and reusable captured evidence. |
| Inspect | Local mobile-web and WebView debugging through DOM, JavaScript, network, and memory tools. | Choose Ansight when the investigation also needs native application context, app-defined tools, and verification connected to captured sessions. |
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05 · Together
The difference is how the capabilities work together.
A run in Ansight becomes an asset for the next stage of development.
- 01
Debug test
Use the captured failure, actions, and state to author a regression check.
- 02
Test debug
Investigate a failed run using its retained runtime evidence.
- 03
UI internal state
Cross-reference visible behaviour with exposed framework and database state.
- 04
Performance verification
Use observed measurements to inform repeatable checks.
- 05
Investigation handoff
Preserve the session and annotations for another engineer or agent.
- 06
Fix evidence
Repeat the relevant workflow and inspect whether the expected results occurred.
See the evidence trail on your app.
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