# Chromatic

> Chromatic is a cloud platform for frontend UI testing and review, built by the team behind the open-source tool Storybook. It runs visual, interaction, and accessibility tests across real browsers to catch UI regressions before they ship, then layers on a team review workflow so designers, PMs, and engineers can sign off on changes. Used by teams at GitHub, Adobe, the BBC, Square, and Monday.com, Chromatic turns the messy, manual job of UI QA into an automated step in the CI pipeline.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Zoltan Olah (Co-founder & CEO), Tom Coleman (Co-founder & CTO), Dominic Nguyen (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~68 employees (remote-first)
- **Products:** Chromatic (cloud platform), Storybook, Visual Tests addon, TurboSnap, Playwright & Cypress integrations
- **Notable:** Maintains Storybook, the most popular open-source UI component development tool, used by Airbnb, Microsoft, and LEGO., Adopted by major engineering teams including GitHub, Adobe, the BBC, and Square., Built infrastructure (Capture, TurboSnap, Storybook 8) that made tests roughly 4x faster year over year.

## Products & services

- **Chromatic (cloud platform)** — Cloud service that runs visual, interaction, and accessibility tests across real browsers and provides a UI review/sign-off workflow for teams and AI agents.
- **Storybook** — Open-source tool, maintained by Chromatic, for building and testing UI components in isolation. Used by thousands of companies including Airbnb, Microsoft, and LEGO.
- **Visual Tests addon** — Storybook addon that brings Chromatic's visual testing directly into the local development workflow.
- **TurboSnap** — Optimization that tests only the components affected by a code change instead of the entire suite, cutting test time and cost.
- **Playwright & Cypress integrations** — Run Chromatic visual and interaction tests from existing Playwright or Cypress end-to-end test suites.
- **UI Review & Publish** — Collaborative review with visual diffs and stakeholder approvals, plus a hosted, searchable component library and documentation.

## Achievements

- Maintains Storybook, the most popular open-source UI component development tool, used by Airbnb, Microsoft, and LEGO.
- Adopted by major engineering teams including GitHub, Adobe, the BBC, and Square.
- Built infrastructure (Capture, TurboSnap, Storybook 8) that made tests roughly 4x faster year over year.
- Grew from a three-person consulting studio (Percolate) to a ~68-person product company.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Shipped the Visual Tests addon for Storybook, bringing cloud visual testing into the local dev loop.
- **2026-01** — Positioned the platform to provide validated UI testing context for AI coding agents, not just human developers.

## Links

- Website: https://www.chromatic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chromaticcom
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chromaticcom
- GitHub: https://github.com/chromaui
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chromaticui
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chromatic.com

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Last updated: 2026-06-15