Bug reports a developer can actually reproduce

CobaltCapture is a free, browser-based way to file a bug report a developer can reproduce without a follow-up conversation. Capture the broken screen, pin the spot, dictate the steps to repeat it and what you expected instead, and publish. The report is one review URL, exportable as markdown that drops straight into your issue tracker or a coding agent.

A bug report fails when the developer cannot reproduce it. That usually means a screenshot landed in one place, the steps in another, and the "what should happen" was never written down. The developer spends twenty minutes reconstructing the context you already had, or bounces it back as "cannot reproduce." The fix is to keep everything in one artifact.

Capture the bug in one pass

Click Capture screen and grab the failing state. Crop to the broken element and drop a numbered pin on it. Dictate the repro steps out loud: "Pin 1, the total shows zero. Steps: add two items, apply the promo code, refresh. Expected the subtotal to persist." Each step lands as editable text next to the screen. If the bug spans several screens, capture each in order, all in the same review.

That produces a QA bug report with the visual, the steps, and the expectation in a single document the developer opens once and acts on.

Severity and priority, stated plainly

A good report says how bad it is and how soon it matters. Those are two different axes, and conflating them is how a cosmetic bug jumps the queue ahead of a checkout blocker. The severity vs priority distinction belongs in the report itself: dictate the severity ("blocks checkout, no workaround") so triage is not guessing. The developer and the PM read the same framing.

What the developer receives

A public review URL, plus a one-click markdown export that pastes into a GitHub or GitLab issue, a Linear or Jira ticket, or a coding agent session. The source URL is stamped on each frame, the pins are burned into the export, and your dictated steps are right there as captions. Nothing is locked in a proprietary viewer the developer has to open and learn.

No install and no browser extension, which matters when QA runs across a fleet of machines and managed browsers where you cannot add extensions. CobaltCapture runs in the browser tab you already have open.

Get started

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Frequently asked questions

What makes a bug report reproducible?

The developer needs the visual state, the exact steps to reach it, and what should have happened instead. CobaltCapture keeps the screenshot, your dictated repro steps, and the source URL together in one review, so the report is self-contained and the developer is not pinging you for context.

Can I capture several screens in one bug report?

Yes. Each capture becomes its own item with its own pins and note, so a multi-step repro is a sequence of screens in order, each annotated, in one review URL.

Does the export work with our issue tracker and coding agents?

The markdown export pastes cleanly into a GitHub, GitLab, Linear, or Jira issue, and into a coding agent like Cursor or Claude Code. The cropped screenshots, pins, source URL, and notes all come along.