Getting Started

Start your first Live session — pick a browser or device, configure it, launch, and drive it in real time.

A Live session takes seconds to start: pick what you want to test, launch it, and drive it from your tab. This page walks through your first session end to end.

Start a session

Step 1 — Pick a browser or device

From the Live picker, choose what you want to drive:

A desktop browser — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari on macOS or Windows.
A real phone or tablet — a real iPhone, or a real Android phone or tablet, from the fleet.
A browser on a real phone — Safari or Chrome on an iPhone, or Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Opera on an Android. See Mobile browsers.

The left rail switches between platforms; the dropdowns underneath let you narrow down the exact browser, OS version, or device model.

Step 2 — Configure it

Depending on what you picked, set the details for the session:

Browsers — choose the browser, OS version, and screen resolution.
Devices — choose the manufacturer and model.
Your app (optional) — upload an .ipa / .apk, or pick one from My apps, to have it installed automatically when the session opens. See Installing Apps.

Anything not free right now is greyed out, and the picker picks the first available option for you. A Windows browser can occasionally still have to wait for capacity even when it looked ready.

Step 3 — Launch

Click Start. The device or browser boots (a warm browser starts in a few seconds) and its screen begins streaming into your tab over live video.

Step 4 — Drive it

Once the stream is live, interact with it directly:

Click / tap anywhere on the streamed screen.
Type with your keyboard — into the page, the app, or the browser's URL bar.
Scroll and swipe to move around.
On phones, use gestures and device controls (Home, Back, volume, rotate) from the toolbar.

Everything you do happens on the real device in real time.

Every session has a toolbar. What's on it depends on what you're driving, but the common tools are screenshot, record, audio, device controls (Home, Back, rotate, volume), network, location, language and timezone, files & media, logs and device info.

Three of those are not everywhere: recording is missing on Windows browser sessions, audio on macOS 15 browser sessions and on Safari and Firefox on macOS, and logs and device info are mobile-only.

Full detail on each in Session tools, and for the network and location controls, Network, location & VPN.

Ending a session

Click End session when you're done. The device is cleaned and released back to the fleet for the next user, and your session time stops counting against your allowance.

Session time is billed in whole minutes — rounded up, with a one-minute floor — so even a 20-second session costs a minute.

Refreshing the page ends your session. So does closing the tab or navigating away — the device is released within seconds. Every session also starts with a 30-minute wall clock, and desktop browser sessions end automatically after 15 minutes of no activity. See Session limits.