What is The Punisher?

The Punisher is a visual testing tool that automatically compares your Figma designs with actual web implementations. It detects pixel-level differences and generates detailed correction reports you can share directly with your development team or AI coding agents.

How does Figma to code comparison work?

Upload your Figma design, connect your live, preproduction, or local website, and The Punisher will perform an automated pixel-by-pixel comparison. It generates a detailed report highlighting every visual discrepancy with actionable fix suggestions.

Is The Punisher free to use?

Yes. The Punisher offers a free plan with 5 tokens per month, no credit card required. Paid plans are Basic at 49 EUR per month for 50 tokens and Pro at 149 EUR per month for 200 tokens, plus custom Enterprise volumes.

Which platforms does The Punisher support?

The Punisher is available as a desktop application for both macOS (11.0 or later) and Windows (10 or later). It works with any website - live, staging, or local development environments.

How is The Punisher different from other visual testing tools like Percy or Chromatic?

The Punisher is purpose-built for Figma-to-code comparison. It compares each element and section independently and generates actionable correction prompts that can be fed directly to AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude - eliminating subjective design reviews and enabling automated fixes.

Does The Punisher work with AI coding agents?

Yes. Each comparison report includes ready-to-use correction prompts you can paste directly into AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude or ChatGPT to automatically fix the detected design discrepancies.

Is my design data private?

Yes. The Punisher runs as a desktop application - your designs and screenshots are processed locally on your machine. We do not store your design files on our servers.

The Punisher vs. Percy

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Last updated 25 July 2026 · Written by the team that builds The Punisher

Short answer

Use Percy when you need CI-driven snapshot approvals across a browser matrix. Use The Punisher when you need to prove the built page actually matches the Figma design — including on new pages that have no baseline.

Both tools help teams ship better-looking software, but they answer different questions. Percy — now part of BrowserStack — asks "did this page change since last time?" The Punisher asks "does this page match the Figma design?" Understanding that distinction is the fastest way to pick the right tool, or to use both.

The practical consequence: a Percy build can be completely green while the page is 12px off the design, using the wrong shade of brand blue and the wrong type scale — because that is how the baseline was approved in the first place. The Punisher measures against the design, so those defects surface on day one.

At a glance

Feature comparison between The Punisher and Percy
Capability	The Punisher	Percy
Reference for comparison	Figma design (source of truth)	Previously approved snapshot
Catches design drift on brand-new pages	Yes — no history needed	No baseline exists yet
Catches regressions from a baseline	Yes — snapshot-to-snapshot too	Yes — core use case
Reports exact corrective values (px, hex, font)	Yes	Highlights changed pixels only
AI-ready correction prompts for Copilot / Cursor / Claude	Yes	No
Setup required	Install app, paste a URL	SDK + CI integration + token
Where comparison runs	Locally — design data stays on your machine	Hosted cloud service
Cross-browser & responsive matrix at scale	Focused on the viewports you test	Broad browser and width matrix
Snapshot approval workflow in pull requests	Reports you attach to a PR	Native PR checks and approvals
Platforms	macOS, Windows, Chrome extension	CI / cloud
Entry price	0€ — 5 comparisons/month, no card	Free tier, then metered per screenshot

What The Punisher does that Percy does not

Design intent, not just change detection
A Percy diff proves something moved. A Punisher report proves whether what shipped is what was designed — the difference between "nothing broke" and "this is correct".
Actionable numbers, not red rectangles
Every discrepancy comes with the measured value and the intended value: padding 20px vs 24px, #E45A6A vs #E4596A, 15.8px vs 16px line height. No eyeballing overlays.
AI-ready correction prompts
Copy a generated prompt straight into GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code and let the agent apply the fix. Percy stops at the diff.
No baseline, no CI, no SDK
You can QA a page five minutes after a designer hands it over — before any code is merged and before any pipeline exists.
Privacy-first by architecture
Unreleased screens and Figma files never leave the machine. For agencies under NDA and regulated teams, that removes an entire vendor-review conversation.

When Percy is the right choice

Percy shines when you have an established UI and want to guard it against unintended change. Its snapshot-and-baseline model integrates into CI, renders across a wide browser and viewport matrix, and flags any pixel that moved between two builds — with an approval workflow attached to the pull request. If your main risk is "a refactor silently broke a page that used to be fine," that is exactly what it is built for, and it does that job well at scale.

When The Punisher is the right choice

The Punisher is built for the other half of the problem: making sure the implementation matches the design in the first place. Because it uses your Figma file as the reference, it works on brand-new pages with no history, and every difference it reports comes with the exact values to change.

Teams pick it when design QA is currently a manual, opinion-driven ping-pong between designer and developer — see how to QA a Figma handoff for the workflow it replaces.

Cost comparison

Percy is metered: you get a free monthly screenshot allowance and then pay per screenshot, with each browser and each viewport counting separately. A single page tested at four widths across two browsers consumes eight screenshots per build — cost scales with your matrix and your commit volume, not with the value delivered.

The Punisher is priced per comparison: Free at 0€ with 5 comparisons a month and no credit card, Basic at 49€/month for 50, Pro at 149€/month for 200, and custom Enterprise volumes. There is no per-browser multiplier and no CI-minute cost, because the comparison runs on your own machine.

Practical read: if you run thousands of automated snapshots per day across many browsers, Percy's model is built for that. If a handful of people need to verify that ten to two hundred screens match Figma each month, per-comparison pricing is materially cheaper and far easier to forecast.

Use them together

Many teams run both: The Punisher verifies a page matches Figma before it merges, and snapshot visual regression testing guards it against future drift in CI. One anchors to design intent; the other anchors to the last known good state. Run The Punisher at handoff and before release, and let Percy hold the line between builds.

Try design-aware comparison free

5 free comparisons every month. No credit card, no CI setup, no baseline required.

Download The Punisher Or try the free Chrome extension

Frequently asked questions

Is The Punisher a Percy alternative?

Partly. Percy compares a new snapshot against a previously approved baseline to catch regressions. The Punisher compares the live implementation against the Figma design to catch drift from design intent — including on brand-new pages that have no baseline. If your goal is design QA rather than CI change detection, The Punisher replaces Percy; if you need snapshot approval workflows inside a CI pipeline, Percy remains the stronger fit.

What is the main difference between The Punisher and Percy?

Percy is snapshot-to-snapshot: it tells you the UI changed. The Punisher is design-to-implementation: it tells you the UI does not match Figma and gives you the exact values — spacing, colour, font size, position — to fix.

Does The Punisher need a CI pipeline like Percy does?

No. The Punisher is a desktop app for macOS and Windows plus a Chrome extension. You can run a comparison against a live, staging or localhost URL without wiring up a build, a token or a CI job.

Is The Punisher cheaper than Percy?

The Punisher starts at 0€ per month with 5 comparisons included and no credit card, and paid plans start at 49€ per month. Percy is billed on a metered per-screenshot model, where every browser and viewport counts separately. For small and mid-size teams doing design QA rather than large automated matrices, per-comparison pricing is usually cheaper and easier to forecast.

Does my design data leave my machine?

No. The Punisher runs the comparison locally, so Figma files and screenshots of unreleased pages are not uploaded to a third-party cloud. Percy is a hosted cloud service, so snapshots are rendered and stored on vendor infrastructure.

Can The Punisher catch regressions between two builds like Percy?

Yes. As well as design-to-implementation comparison, The Punisher can compare two captures of the same page, so you can detect regressions without maintaining a baseline service.