Reely vs Slideshot
Slideshot shares Reely’s entire idea — an AI agent drives your app and hands back a finished MP4, no manual editing — but Slideshot records web apps in a browser. Reely does the same for native iOS in the Simulator. If you’re demoing a website or web app, Slideshot; if you’re demoing a native iOS/SwiftUI app, Reely. Both skip subscriptions.
Reely vs Slideshot, at a glance
| Feature | Reely | Slideshot |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Auto-generated iOS demo reel | Auto-generated web demo video |
| Platform | Native iOS / SwiftUI (Simulator) | Web apps (browser) |
| How it’s made | AI agent drives the app | AI agent drives the app |
| Auto-zoom & polish | Automatic | Automatic |
| Captions | Auto-authored | Auto-generated |
| Agent / MCP | MCP-native (Claude / Cursor / Codex) | MCP-native (Claude / Cursor / Codex) |
| Pricing | Pay once ($89–$129) | Pay per use (~$0.90/recording) |
Same idea, different platform
Slideshot and Reely agree on the big bet: the agent that drives your app should also make the demo, and you shouldn’t touch a timeline. The split is purely platform. Slideshot drives a browser, so it shines on web apps and dashboards. Reely drives the iOS Simulator, so it handles native SwiftUI features, gestures, and transitions a browser can’t reach.
Why native iOS needs its own approach
You can’t point a browser automation tool at an iOS app. Reely builds an iOS harness, launches your feature in the Simulator, and drives the real navigation and state objects inside `withAnimation` so genuine native transitions play. It captures device-native portrait video and anchors the trim on a sync frame. That’s a fundamentally different pipeline from web recording.
Per-use vs pay-once
Slideshot charges per recording (around $0.90 each, with bundles), which is friendly for occasional one-offs. Reely is a single purchase with lifetime updates, which is friendlier if you produce iOS demos regularly. Many shipping-both-platforms teams could reasonably use Slideshot for the web app and Reely for the iOS app.
Pricing
Pay once
$89–$129, paid once (1–3 Macs). Lifetime updates, no subscription.
Their pricing
Pay per use — about $0.90 per recording (10 for ~$9). No subscription.
Which one should you use?
Choose Reely if…
- Your product is a native iOS / SwiftUI app
- You want native gestures and transitions, not a web approximation
- You make iOS demos often and prefer paying once
- You want device-native portrait output for the App Store
Choose Slideshot if…
- Your product is a web app, dashboard, or website
- You want pay-per-use for occasional demos
- You don’t need native mobile capture
FAQ
No — Slideshot drives a browser, so it records web apps. For native iOS/SwiftUI, Reely drives the Simulator instead.
It shares the same idea — an agent drives the app and returns a finished video — applied to native iOS. The capture pipeline (Simulator harness, native animations, sync-frame trim) is built specifically for iOS.
If you ship both a web app and an iOS app, that’s reasonable: Slideshot for the web demo, Reely for the iOS demo.
Let your agent make the reel.
Reely turns your iOS feature into a clean, auto-zoomed, captioned sizzle reel — no recording, no editing, no Simulator wrangling. Pay once.