Plain English in, standard Playwright out
Both tools let you describe a test in ordinary sentences instead of code. The difference is what that sentence becomes. In Testnova it becomes a standard Playwright spec, grounded in the real selectors captured from your live app, and committed to your GitHub or GitLab repository. Your engineers can open it, edit it, run it locally, and keep it forever — there is no proprietary format between you and your own test suite.
- Generated tests are standard Playwright — no vendor DSL, no export barrier.
- Scripts live in your repo; leaving the platform never means losing the suite.
- Grounding captures your app’s real elements, so tests don’t guess at buttons.
- Self-heal fixes arrive as pull requests you review, not silent platform edits.
Pricing you can read without a sales call
testRigor is sold the enterprise way: talk to sales, get a quote. Testnova’s pricing is public and flat — a free plan to start, then Solo at $99/month, Starter at $299/month, and Professional at $499/month, with quotas that reset monthly and every rate listed on the pricing page, down to the per-minute cost of real devices. A freelancer and a fifty-person team see the same numbers.
Beyond the scripted suite
Alongside the regression tests you author, Testnova runs autonomous exploratory testing — an agent that navigates your app looking for bugs nobody wrote a case for — plus Lens for visual, accessibility, and page-speed checks, API testing from the same cases, and real Android devices in the cloud. Results come back triaged: a genuine defect stays red and becomes a bug report with reproduction steps; only environmental drift is self-healed.
When testRigor is still a fine choice
If your organization prefers a fully managed enterprise vehicle — procurement, onboarding, and a suite that lives entirely inside one vendor’s walls — testRigor is a mature product with a real track record. Testnova earns the switch when you want the same plain-English convenience but insist on owning the output, seeing the price before the call, and paying startup rates rather than enterprise ones.
Frequently asked questions
How is Testnova different from testRigor?
Both generate tests from plain English. Testnova outputs standard Playwright committed to your own repository, so you own and can edit the suite, and its pricing is public and flat starting free and then from $99/month. testRigor keeps tests inside its platform in its own format and prices through a sales process.
Can I migrate away from Testnova later without losing my tests?
Yes — that is the point of the ownership model. Your tests are standard Playwright in your own GitHub or GitLab repo. If you ever stop using Testnova, the whole suite stays behind and runs anywhere Playwright runs.
Does Testnova also do self-healing like testRigor?
Yes, with one deliberate difference: fixes are proposed as pull requests against your repo, so a human can see exactly what changed, and a genuine bug is never healed into a green pass — it stays red and becomes a bug report.
Is Testnova cheaper than testRigor?
testRigor doesn’t publish standard pricing, so a direct comparison depends on your quote. Testnova is free to start and its paid plans are flat and public — $99, $299, and $499 per month — with no per-seat charges and no sales call required to see any of it.
Keep exploring
- AI-powered testing tool — Testnova is an AI-powered QA and testing tool that writes, runs, and repairs your tests. Real browsers, real Android devices, API checks. Start free.
- Software testing tool — One software testing tool for web, mobile, and API. Testnova writes test cases from plain English, runs them on real devices, and reports bugs with repro steps.
- QA tool — Testnova is the software QA tool that covers the full workflow — test cases, scripts, runs on real devices, bug reports, and traceability — powered by AI.
- Affordable QA tool — Looking for a cheap QA tool that doesn’t cut corners? Testnova starts free — no credit card, no sales call — with flat, public pricing from $99/month.
- Online QA tool — Testnova is an online QA tool that runs entirely in the cloud — real browsers and real Android devices, no install, no device lab. Sign in and start testing.
- Best QA tool — What makes the best QA tool? A practical checklist — authoring, real-device execution, maintenance, honest reporting — and how Testnova measures up. Start free.
- Playwright alternative — Love Playwright, hate writing and maintaining it? Testnova generates standard Playwright into your own repo, runs it, and self-heals it. Start free.
- Regression testing tool — Testnova is a regression testing tool that builds its own suite, repairs it when your app changes, and catches visual and performance regressions too. Start free.
- Test automation for startups — Test automation for startups that ship fast and can’t hire QA yet. Testnova writes, runs, and repairs the tests for you. Free to start, flat pricing after.
- AI test automation tool — Testnova is an AI test automation tool that writes the automation, runs it on real browsers and devices, and repairs it when your app changes. Start free.
- Online test runner — Testnova is an online test runner that executes your tests in the cloud — parallel runs, on real browsers and devices, gated into CI. Nothing to host. Start free.
- Real device testing — Real device testing without a device lab. Testnova runs your tests on real browsers and real Android phones in the cloud, on demand. Start free.
- Online app testing — Test your mobile app online. Upload your build and Testnova runs its real flows on real Android devices in the cloud, then reports the bugs. Start free.
- Katalon alternative — A Katalon alternative with nothing to install: Testnova writes and maintains tests from plain English and runs them on cloud browsers and real Android devices.
- mabl alternative — A mabl alternative that skips the trainer: Testnova generates tests from plain-English intent, hunts bugs autonomously, and commits Playwright to your repo.
- The seven Testnova services — what each one does and when to switch it on.
- Full capabilities — everything the platform covers today.