Team Review

Team Review lets you capture and review issues on any live URL straight from the OverlayQA dashboard. Nothing to install: the page loads inside a review canvas where you place pins, write issues, and track findings with your team. It's the fastest way to review a publicly reachable site. For localhost, staging behind a VPN, or login-gated pages, use the Chrome extension instead.

Start a Team Review

Team Review starts from a project in the dashboard.

On the Projects page, open a project's row menu (or the project card's three-dot menu) and choose Team Review.
On a project's Issues page, click Capture Issues.

A modal asks for one thing: the Page URL you want to review. Click Review and the page opens in a new tab inside the review canvas. Localhost, private-network, and file:// URLs can't be reached by the review proxy; the modal detects them and points you to the extension, which captures those pages in place.

Live and Snapshot Modes

Every review runs in one of two modes, shown in the header.

Live — the page is proxied in real time. You can move through the site with the built-in Back, Forward, and Reload controls and capture issues on any page you visit.
Snapshot — OverlayQA captures a frozen, script-free copy of the page and you review that. Navigation is disabled, but pins are precise and nothing shifts underneath them.

Pages published on JavaScript-heavy builder domains (such as webflow.io, framer.app, figma.site, bubble.io, softr.app, and notion.site) start in snapshot mode automatically, because those pages can't be proxied live. You can switch modes yourself at any time: click the mode indicator in the header and choose Switch to Snapshot or Switch to Live. Live mode opens pages logged out; if a page needs sign-in and never finishes rendering, a hint appears explaining why, with a shortcut to open that page with the extension instead.

Capture Issues

Click Create in the header (or press C) to enter capture mode. Press S to switch between the two pin types, and Esc to exit. OverlayQA captures a screenshot automatically for both pin types.

Element pin (click) — click any element and an issue popover opens right on the canvas with description, title, type, and severity fields. Changes save automatically.
Region pin (drag) — drag a rectangle over the problem area and the New Issue form opens with title, description, type (Design Bug, Design Gap, Design Debt, or Accessibility), and severity (Critical, High, Medium, or Low).

Once your description reaches 10 characters, the AI analyzes the capture and suggests a title, type, severity, and expanded description. Click Apply All to accept the suggestions, or Dismiss to keep your own wording.

Preview Breakpoints

Use the Preview width dropdown in the header to view the page at a preset breakpoint: Full width, Mobile S 360, Mobile 390, Mobile L 414, Tablet 768, Laptop 1024, or Desktop 1440. Issues remember the breakpoint they were captured at, and the expanded issue detail shows a "Captured at" line so developers know exactly which viewport reproduced the bug.

The Issue Drawer

Captured issues appear in the drawer on the right, grouped by page, with the current page expanded. The drawer stays in sync with the canvas: click a pin to jump to its row, and a just-created issue floats to the top of its group. Expanding an issue shows its screenshot, the captured breakpoint, and a comment thread where teammates can discuss the issue with @mentions.

Select issues with the checkboxes to open the Actions menu: export to Jira, Linear, or Notion, share issues via a public link, set status, type, or severity in bulk, or delete.

Where Issues Go

Team Review issues save into the same project issue list as extension captures and get the same sequential issue IDs (like OQ-127), so integrations, exports, and reporting treat them like any other issue. Open the project in the dashboard to see review captures alongside extension captures.

Team Review vs. Client Share Links

Team Review is the signed-in version of the review canvas, built for your own team. To collect feedback from clients or stakeholders who don't have OverlayQA accounts, create a client share link instead. Guests can pin annotations and leave notes that become linked issues automatically, while capture forms, comments, exports, mode switching, and breakpoint preview are reserved for signed-in team members.

When You Still Need the Extension

Localhost, staging, and login-gated pages — the review proxy opens pages logged out and can't reach private URLs. The extension captures in your own browser session.
Visual Comparison and Design System Audit — these workflows run in the extension sidebar.

See Getting Started to install the extension, or Creating an Issue for the extension capture flow.