Articles on Proxygen Docs

Modern Charles Proxy Alternative

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Proxygen is an HTTP debugging tool for Mac, iPhone and iPad, built around a TLS manipulator-in-the-middle proxy that captures and decrypts HTTPS traffic. It is a native Swift app, and its license is a one-time purchase. For anyone searching for a Charles Proxy alternative, this article goes through the familiar tools and their Proxygen counterparts, what Proxygen adds on top, and how the licensing compares.

The everyday workflow

Debugging in Proxygen starts in the History tool: you capture traffic, watch HTTP requests and API calls stream in from the app you are testing, and use filter rules and flags to isolate the requests that matter. From there, Intercept stops requests and responses on the wire for editing, and the Editor tool replays modified requests against the server.

Mitmproxy for iOS

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

mitmproxy is a favorite tool for inspecting HTTP traffic — free, open source and endlessly scriptable. Capturing traffic from an iPhone with it takes a computer, though: you run the proxy there, point the device’s Wi-Fi proxy settings at it, and install the certificate from mitm.it. Proxygen is a native HTTP debugging proxy for Mac, iPhone and iPad — a TLS manipulator-in-the-middle proxy that captures and decrypts HTTPS traffic on the device itself, sold as a one-time purchase.

Best Proxyman Alternative

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Proxygen is a native HTTP debugging proxy for Mac, iPhone and iPad — a TLS manipulator-in-the-middle proxy that captures and decrypts HTTPS traffic, sold as a one-time purchase. If you are looking for a Proxyman alternative, this article maps familiar features to their Proxygen equivalents, shows what Proxygen adds, and compares pricing.

The everyday workflow

A typical session in Proxygen starts in the History tool. You start traffic capture, watch HTTP requests and API calls arrive as your app runs, and narrow the list down with filter rules and flags until you find the request you care about. From there you can stop the next one on the wire with Intercept, or copy it into the Editor tool to modify and replay it against the server.

Fiddler Alternative for Mac

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fiddler has been the default web debugging proxy on Windows for two decades, but it never found a real home on the Mac. Fiddler Classic remains Windows-only, and Fiddler Everywhere — the cross-platform successor — is an Electron-era rewrite sold as a per-user subscription that keeps working only while you keep paying.

Proxygen is a debugging proxy built natively for Apple platforms: a Swift app for Mac, iPhone and iPad around a TLS manipulator-in-the-middle proxy that captures and decrypts HTTPS traffic, licensed as a one-time purchase. If Fiddler shaped your debugging habits, this article shows where each of them lands in Proxygen.

Wireshark Alternative for Debugging HTTPS on Mac

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Wireshark is the reference tool for packet analysis, but most of the time a developer reaches for it, the actual question is an HTTP one: what did my app send, what did the server answer, and why did that request fail? At that altitude Wireshark makes you work hard — HTTPS shows up as encrypted TLS records unless you can supply key material, and reassembling a request from packets is a detour when what you wanted was the JSON body.

How to Inspect HTTPS Traffic on iPhone

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sooner or later every iOS developer needs to see what an app actually sends over the network: which API calls fire on launch, what a misbehaving request looks like on the wire, or which third-party endpoints a dependency quietly talks to. The catch is that nearly all of that traffic is HTTPS, so a plain packet capture shows you nothing but encrypted bytes. This guide shows how to capture and decrypt HTTPS traffic entirely on the device, using Proxygen — with no computer involved and no jailbreak required.