Testimonials
Public cheers for Proxyman
“Proxyman is such a cool app. You can view http/ws requests from any app on your computer, and install an SSL proxy cert so you can see requests/responses that apps on your computer are making. I've used many - wireshark, charles, etc - and this is the best one i've used.”
“Started using @proxyman_app instead of Charles recently and I’m enjoying it more and more 😁 it basically does everything Charles does, except slightly nicer and more convenient. Especially the way it installs certs on the simulator for proxying 👍🏼”
“I use Dash (@kapeli) almost every day.I find Paw (@luckymarmot) indispensable when dealing with APIs. I recently discovered Proxyman (@proxyman_app) and I’m glad I’ll never need to use Charles ever again.”
“Proxyman is easily the best mitm debugging proxy. Easy to get started. Beautifully designed. Super powerful. We use it every day 🤩”
“If there's any app that I can't recommend enough to all mobile devs and especially iOS devs, it's @proxyman_app!. Once you start using it, you'll know why.”
“I have been using @proxyman_app and I like it a lot. Think of it as a better alternative for Charles Proxy and Free for basic stuff. If one day you will need to debug/review network requests it will be quite handy.”
“Used Proxyman today for the first time and wow 😍
I've been using Charles for years, but honestly… Proxyman just gets it right.
Cleaner UI, faster setup, and way more dev-friendly.
Is it just me, or is Proxyman the new king of debugging tools? 👀
#iOSDev #SwiftUI #Proxyman”
“Hey @luckymarmot … please acquire and integrate @proxyman_app 🙏 #OneAppToRuleThemAll”
“@proxyman_app a new app to intercept network traffic on your Mac, a beautiful, native Mac app. Still a huge fan of Charles web proxy, but this one just looks so nice.”
“Proxyman is an amazing tool! Definitely the best I've seen. I used to use Charles Proxy and it seems like it is not maintained. 52 updates is fire 🔥”
“Officially switching to @proxyman_app after 10 years of using Charles! Much better interface, app performance, and also shows what process is making a particular web request!”
“I finally installed @proxyman_app after following it for years, and I must say... what a great piece of software! 👏 Thanks for sticking with it @_nghiatran 🙏”
“Tried out the new native debugging proxy @proxyman_app and it’s awesomely simple and just works - I love it 👍🏼. Glad to see it works with Websockets too so works with @ablyrealtime.”
“@proxyman_app has the nicest HTTP Proxy app for Mac, the cert installation flow for Simulators is where the bar is at!”
“My favorite new tool is @proxyman_app - if you haven't you should give it a try! 🚀 #swift #swiftui #buildinpublic”
“Wow, this is a pretty awesome quality-of-life improvement! I just love it 💖 @proxyman_app is always improving, definitely a tool to have in your toolbelt, worth every penny!”
“Probably lame to most people 😅 but @proxyman_app is probably one of my favorite dev tools. For React Native apps that aren't on the Expo / Radeon IDE workflow yet, it's indispensable.”
“Have to say @proxyman_app is an absolutely phenomenal tool. I can't imagine using Charles with a native macOS app that works so well. One thing I'm really missing is the ability to run diffs between requests to the same endpoint, that would be such a valuable feature.”
“I've just discovered @proxyman_app and it looks like a pretty great Mac-only alternative to Charles Proxy. Super streamlined UI that gets right to the heart of what most of us want: to see the request and response being made from a specific app.”
“I’ve been using Proxyman for over 2 years for some web hacking and I really enjoy it. It’s fast, well designed and easy to use. And thanks to the team for offering student licenses 🫶🫶”
“We are using @proxyman_app for debugging Tuist Cloud locally, and it’s one of the best apps in the space. It’s a must in every developer’s toolbox.”
“🔁 I recently built a retry mechanism into @helm_app to handle API flakiness and allow for a better User Experience when unknown errors occur. 🎥 This is how I built it and used @proxyman_app to intercept network requests and ensure retries worked as expected!”
5 out of 5 stars
On 2️⃣, I highly recommend proxyman.com – you'd be surprised how much you can learn about any system by watching what it does over the network.
"Proxyman is great."
"Proxyman is 100x value for 2x the price. I am not even kidding. Native UI, shortcuts, cert installation helper tools. And script editor to programmatically edit requests is so much better and powerful than Charles' request editor."
"Likewise. I was a dedicated user of Charles for about a decade. It's great, but if you are a macOS user, Proxyman is better, easier, and more macOS friendly."
"I don't have elaborate needs and have used Charles for many years. A few years ago I switched to proxyman.com and found it easier to use."
"Yes, Proxyman has great sim integration, including the ability to filter by apps within the sim. It's a far better macOS app than Charles, and I've never found it to be lacking a feature I used in Charles."
"It makes working with Xcode simulators even easier by having a dedicated UI workflow to install the proxy certificates and restart the sim. I used to face issues from time to time doing this with Charles having to restart my machine at times and not getting the certificates to work. Proxyman makes this way nicer to work with and since switching I never faced certificate issues again. Not trying to do an ad, but really glad I don't have to think about that anymore :)"
"When I was still working with iOS, all of us on the team switched to Proxyman and found it much better than Charles. Developer experience wise that is (features, ui/ux, etc.) We ran into some issues with Charles and found Proxyman as the alternative. Don't remember the issues but we never looked back."
"Same. At some point there was a new Charles version and I could not figure out how to use it the way I had used the old version (I admit I forget exactly what I was trying to do), and it was trivial in Proxyman. Proxyman also has a great app."
"I used Charles for many years but proxyman's performance is a real step up."
"Alltime great software. I'm on proxyman."
"I used Charles for a while and also jumped on the Proxyman bandwagon. It's a slick tool and even works for remote debugging (i.e., an iPhone attached to your computer with a cable)."
"A much better alternative for MacOS folks - proxyman.com"
"It does. I find the UI better and setting it up easier too"
"Cool. I appreciate the tip. I'll give it a go. Thanks!"
"I frequently use them both. The main reason why I can't leave Charles is the lack of session grouping in Proxyman. Seeing a huge list of irrelevant items is annoying after some point. In Charles, I can save that session with a name and move on to something else. It's almost impossible to leave one for the other at this point for me. This goes without saying, but huge thanks to the both developers for making these available."
"proxyman.com"
"If the devs behind Charles would just tweak their UI a bit, it would be the absolute perfect tool. Functionally it pretty much already is. I tried using proxyman for a while, and while definitely powerful and more modern, it honestly didn't feel "better" or more powerful so I didn't go for yet another license."
"Pretty nice. Does it work for Xcode simulators? I use Charles extensively (I am using it for the development I'm doing right now), and it needs to work on simulators. Cost isn't an issue for me. Fitness to purpose is important. I won't cripple my development capacity, in order to save $50."
"Is anyone else having trouble loading the proxyman website? (Firefox, Windows 11) - it freezes the entire browser.."
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"An absolutel lifesaver of an app. Industry where I work typically uses Charles for this kind of task, - an app that's got a fairly vague maintenance schedule and as a cross platform app always feels like a bit of a janky experience. It's so nice to have a thoughtful and well developed tool that feels at home in a Mac ecosystem and still comes packed with all the features you'd need. A+."
"Oh my goodness I never believed such app as this exists Oh my god🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀 Im in love with this Keep it up developer I love you"
"Best HTTP traffic inspector. The map local tool is great especially - very easy to rewrite data for new requests."
"O melhor app para proxy de todos os tempos, uso o MacOS só por causa dele."
"This is almost a must-have when developing apps that touch an API. It's one of my favorite development and debugging tools!"
"Excellent app to debug HTTP requests with simulators or real devices. It's really easy to create stubs for JSON responses. I recommend this tool to developers and testers. 5 stars!!."
"Great app! Mobile Dev here and this is a must have for me."
"Very robust suite of tools for debugging and inspecting HTTP requests... even encrypted ones!"
"Compared to any other MITM proxy I have seen or paid for, this one is by far the most effective. In terms of scriptability, mocking, and modification ability, this one beats Surge, Burpsuite, Thor, and Mitmproxy. It is also the easiest to set up and doesn't require a lot of maneuvering to get your traffic flowing through the proxy. A pretty good deal with Setapp I think.."
"Super well done and super useful. Don't know of a better app for devs!."
"Great tool! Would like more options for interception between docker hosts and such, but that is all bonus in my book."
"Must have for any dev that does anything with web requests."
"Can’t recommend this enough, the developer has worked really hard to bring the desktop app to mobile and its really successful. While it doesn’t have every feature it has the ones that are most used and promises new functionality in the future. What I do know is the developer is very active and responsive and is keen to develop features that users are asking for. As a customer who uses both desktop and now the mobile version I can say the experience and responsiveness of the developer has been second to none and has even added the “No cache” feature that I requested. If only all developers were like this. Well done!"
"Use the Mac app every day for work, noticed today there is an iOS version. Really great! Didn’t have to connect the phone to the computer to inspect the traffic of an app!"
"There are other powerful proxies, but I swapped to this because it’s the easiest to use."
"Exactly what I wanted, native on my iPhone and macOS. I'm sold."
"I am surprised of how well this app captures all requests from any app. As an iOS developer, this is a great tool for debugging HTTP calls on a production app. Great job guys!!."
"Excellent and easy to use! MITM proxy with SSL offload is hard to accomplish on macOS, never mind iOS! The developers have executed the task with grace and made it easy to debug all HTTP sessions whether they begin via a browser or another app starts them."
"Proxyman really allows you to enable Godspeed debugging - real life 10x Engineer tool!"
"I’m enjoying this app very much. Already had a close one but thanks to this app. It let me know and I was able to forward it to the support team and set up all precautions."
"As a mobile developer proxyman make my debugging work much more fast"
"My work is so much easier. Much better than Charles. Good work!"
"Its a day saver for a qa tester. This app is one of the best in its equivelants"
"Excellent! Easy to use for debug, well done!"
"I have not written a single review before on any app but I am so happy with this that here I am. I have been using the app for quite some time now and it is really simple yet functional for developers. Kudos to the makers."
"Amazing app! If you’ve used any other app for intercepting network you’d realize this is a god send"
"Шикарно! Лучшее современное приложение для реверса сети Ребята вообще красавчики"
"Fantastic tool! Proxyman is a fantastic tool on iOS and the developers do a very good job of constantly improving the app."
"Excellent app, gorgeous Ul and very easy to use especially for IOS dev and network investigation."
"Love it on desktop and on device it makes life su much easier."
"Mình dùng nhiều app để bắt proxy (hay nói cách khác là xem các request của các app gửi đi) rồi nhưng App này là app mình cảm thấy hài lòng nhất. A Founder support cũng rất nhiệt tình. Lắng nghe khách hàng và cải tiến sản phẩm tốt hơn từng ngày. Chúc sản phẩm sẽ nhiều người biết hơn."
"Need to install and trust certificates, and then it works great! Thanks!"
"Such a powerful tool! Just love it and the way it helps in daily routines"
"Buena app con una buena interfaz"
"Leaves nothing to be desired. One of the best and most advanced tools available."
"It's a very helpful Application. One of my favorites in the Set App Store. Better than Fiddle by 1000 times."
"An excellent tool for developers trying to debug connections BUT ALSO great for seeing just what all your apps are doing over the internet! SPECTACULAR support as well!"