Polypane Reviews & Product Details

I feel like this was a missing tool for developers, instead of using browsers for both browsing and debugging the web. Polypane has refocused developer tools to what's truly important:

- responsive-first approach to development, which enables us to remain vigilant and not assume that our product works on all viewports

- a strong artillery of a11y insights and diagnostic tools

- just about all kinds of emulations and debug tools one can think of

- SEO and other kind of tools helpful for page health, from metadata down to specific order of elements

- Polypane makes it harder to turn off resource caching and encourages fore-refresh instead, which makes caching bugs easier to notice and debug

- customer support is excellent, speed and quality of replies makes me feel like my feedback is truly helpful and respected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The worse the performance of my web product is, the worse Polypane's memory usage gets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I liked about this app is that we can test our websites on multiple viewports like desktop, mobile, small mobiles all together in just one app simultaneously. We can also inspect the elements of our website directly from Polypane as it has an inbuilt inspect tab which has dev tools as there are in chrome. We can also do synchronous scrolling and simulate click and other events simultaneously on all different viewports. We can also take screenshots of those viewports and send them to our senior dev or client if you face any difficulty in any viewport. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Synchronous events lag many times like if we are adding some elements dynamically on a click event and you click in one viewport it sometimes doesn't reflect those elements in other viewports. There should also be a dedicated tab for performance testing on different devices, it will be more useful and developers will not have to find other tools just for this. Synchronous scrolling should be more fast rest everything is fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to control multiple browsers in a single motion and easily swap between layouts is huge! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very system intensive, but nothing cannot be worked around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the visual options of Polypane. It allows you to show grids, multitab scroll, debug code instantly and view dark mode and light modes, among other media features which would otherwise make it hard to test in any other standard browsers simultaneously. Bugs are easier to check and fix visually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a RAM enduring tool as such runs with multiple browser instances that a synced together are open. I guess this would be the case if you were to do it any browser. One could disable the Hardware Accelator too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a Senior Web Designer/Developer at a mid-size agency, I find the responsive tools most helpful on a day-to-day basis. That being said, we are also big proponents of web accessibility best practices and Polypane's built-in a11y compliance tools are definitely top-notch! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing that I truly "dislike" about Polypane, but if it were possible to reduce the system resources needed for a large responsive tab session - that would be amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really enjoy getting to see a webpage in multiple panes. It makes me feel like I can see what's coming next, or go back without needing to scroll. It helps me stay on top of productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first, it was very confusing to understand- I had to invest some time in making sure I got the logistics down. It's a different approach to surfing the web, so it took some time getting used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup and use, this saves a ton of time to view changes to a website across devices and platforms. The process is simple and the onboarding is easy to know as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a bit slow and the visits are logged from an IP in US or something different from your own IP. It is a bit expensive a well. There are some extensions out there that do something similar but are cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It really does a great job with testing media queries across different screen sizes. It even helps me remember to go mobile-first! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have a hard time getting PolyPane or any of the alternatives to be part of my permanent workflow. It always feels like a new toy but then I can't get myself to make it permanent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like about polypane is that it allows developers to test the responsiveness of their website by providing different views of the website in panes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Various features embedded in the browser sometimes do not work as expected. The application is buggy and occasionally unresponsive during my use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Polypane is fairly easy to use. I have used this software to design and build websites for clients. The tools available for design are great and I enjoyed this app over GoDaddy's website designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The development features were a bit technical but still easy to get the hang of. Also, there are YouTube videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.