About novrl
novrl turns a handful of screenshots into a clickable product demo. You upload the images, drag a box over the part people should click, write one line of guidance per screen, and press publish. What comes back is a link you can paste anywhere and an iframe snippet you can drop into your own site.
Why it exists
Tools like Arcade and Storylane are excellent, and they are built for teams who record real sessions and maintain long tours. That is a lot of machinery when all you want is to show someone three screens in a reply. novrl is the lightweight version: no browser extension, no recording, no account, no seats.
How it is built
Static pages, a handful of serverless functions, and object storage. Screenshots are resized to 1600 px wide and converted to WebP in your browser before anything is uploaded, which keeps demos small and fast. There is no database and no user table, because there are no users. A demo is a folder with a JSON file and some images in it.
The trade off you are making
Because there are no accounts, there is no login to recover. When you publish, you get a private edit link with a secret in it. That link is the only way to change or delete your demo. Save it. And because demos live on public storage, anyone with the link can open one, so keep real customer data out of your screenshots.
Who made it
Dylan, who posts about the things he builds as @dylan_builds on X. Bugs, feature requests and takedown requests go to dylandirectories11@gmail.com.
What it costs
Nothing to you. Ads on the home and about pages cover hosting and storage. Viewer and embed pages carry no ads at all, so a demo you share never shows an advert to the person you sent it to.