How did we test?
On 9 November 2026 we used the live izly.io with the Chrome extension. Each task was done once by hand on a public demo application or a public website, with made-up data and no real customer accounts. Izly turned the recording into an automation, we ran it again from the side panel, and a script checked the end state: the right page, the right record, the right total. Recording the 24 tasks that passed took under 9 minutes in all.
Which tasks worked?
| Role | Task | Steps | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Sign in to a portal, check the secure area, sign out (the password is asked on every run) | 6 | Passed |
| HR | Correct the salary of one record in a table (the new value is asked on every run) | 5 | Passed |
| Office | Upload a document to a portal | 2 | Passed |
| IT | Open a link that opens a new window and check the window | 3 | Passed |
| HR | Write a note in a rich text editor inside a frame | 3 | Passed |
| IT | Open a profile from a menu that appears on hover | 2 | Passed |
| HR | Type an appointment date into a date field | 3 | Passed |
| Office | Enter a tag in a field with suggestions | 2 | Passed |
| Citizen | Search a public service on a government portal and open the first result | 5 | Passed |
| IT | Morning check: open three pages in turn and click one item on each | 8 | Passed |
| Primary school teacher | Lesson prep: search two topics on a learning site, open an exercise for each, look up three words in a dictionary | 26 | Passed |
| Bank back office | Banking demo: sign in, open an account, transfer between accounts, pay a bill, search transactions | 43 | Passed |
| HR specialist | HR system: sign in, add an employee, search the employee list, sign out | 23 | Passed |
| E-commerce operations | Shop demo: sign in, add three products to the cart, enter delivery details, complete the order | 23 | Passed |
| Branch operations | Add a customer (with a confirmation box), open an account for them, search the customer list | 16 | Passed |
| Lawyer | Search two laws in a legislation database, open them, check the day's official gazette | 11 | Passed |
| Academic | Literature search: search a paper archive, open a paper, check its PDF link, run a second search | 10 | Passed |
| Purchasing | Supplier shop: search, filter by category, sort by price, open a product, add it to the cart | 8 | Passed |
| Sales | Demo shop: add a phone to the cart (alert box), add a laptop, open the cart, fill in the order form | 26 | Passed |
| Customer support | Open a support request: fill in the contact form, attach a file, send it (confirmation box), then search products | 15 | Passed |
| Accountant | Month end: four calculations on public calculators (VAT, VAT withholding, severance pay, income tax) | 25 | Passed |
| Call centre | Sign in as a customer, pick an account, deposit, withdraw, check the transaction list | 12 | Passed |
| Customer representative | New customer: fill in a 12-field registration form and send it (the user name is asked on every run) | 23 | Passed |
| Journalist | Morning scan: a news front page, the newest items, yesterday's headlines, new papers in one field | 9 | Passed |
Which tasks failed, and why?
| Role | Task | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate trainer | Enter a learning platform as a guest, open the course catalogue, a course and an activity | The public demo resets every hour, and its sign-in page looked different at run time. Izly did not guess: it stopped at the first step and asked for help. |
| School administration | Open the same platform's calendar, go to next month, click a day | Same cause, same result: Izly stopped and asked. |
| Clinic secretary | Book an appointment with a facility list and a date picker | Our test robot could not operate this page's list and date picker, so the recording could not be finished. A person picks these with the mouse, but we count it as failed. |
| Small business owner | Sign up at a supplier with a 15-field form, then delete the account | The sign-up was recorded and created the account. At the end a full-screen ad covered the “Delete account” link, so the run could not finish. |
| Warehouse | Filter products, sort by price, add two to a compare list | The run finished, but the end result was wrong: the site reloads its page and empties the compare list. Izly recorded that reload and repeated it faithfully. |
What did we change after this round?
Izly now waits longer for slow pages before it gives up, skips sign-in steps when a site already remembers you, and handles an action that reloads its own page. When a page no longer matches the recording, it still stops and asks instead of clicking the wrong thing.
What does this mean for your own task?
Most tasks made of clicks, typing, menus, dates, uploads and confirmation boxes replayed correctly. Watch out for sites that change their layout often, full-screen ads, and drop-down lists you want to change per row (a table can fill typed fields, not drop-down lists). Try your task on our practice form first, then on the real site. How a recording becomes an automation is on the browser automation page.
To put a number on your own table, the data entry time calculator shows the time by hand and with Izly, and the hours you get back each month.
How can I try the same test on my own task?
Izly is a Chrome extension that turns a task you do once in your browser into a step-by-step guide, a narrated video and a no-code automation that repeats the task. Every task in the tables above was made exactly that way: one recording, then a run from the side panel.
The Free plan includes 10 automation runs a month with at most 5 rows per table run, enough to repeat this test on your own task. Pro costs 10 USD per creator per month with unlimited runs and no row limit. See pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Were these real websites?
Public demo applications built for testing, and public websites such as a government portal and a legislation database. All data was made up.
Did you use real accounts or customer data?
No. Every task used made-up data on demo applications or public sites. Passwords were asked on every run and never stored.
How long did the recordings take?
Under 9 minutes for all 24 tasks that passed. The longest, 43 steps, took about a minute to record.
Does Izly work on every website?
No. It replays what you recorded in Chrome; when a page changes it stops and asks. Some pages, like the clinic form above, need a person.
Can I see it myself?
Yes: record the practice form once and run it from a table. The free plan includes 10 runs a month.
Related pages
Record it once and let the guide write itself
With Izly you do the task once in the browser. Clicks and screenshots become a step-by-step guide that you edit, share, turn into a narrated video or run again for every row of a table.