Open-source alternative to Proxyman

Proxyman is a high-performance web debugging proxy on macOS that allows users to view and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests. It provides a robust set of features, including the ability to intercept and edit requests, replay requests, and map local files to a server, making it a comprehensive tool for web development and debugging.

On the other hand, Requestly is an open source tool available as both browser extension and desktop app. It allows users to set up rules for modifying URLs, injecting scripts, and redirecting requests. It also provides a broad range of functionalities, including the ability to manipulate both request and response data, debug mobile apps, mock API endpoints, and record sessions making it a versatile tool for front-end developers.

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Comparing Requestly vs Proxyman

Requestly is an open-source alternative to Proxyman that is available in Mac,
Windows, and Linux platforms

Proxyman

Requestly

Team Collaboration

Mock Server

Browser Extension

Desktop App

Android & iOS Debugger

Map Local

Session Recording

No performance impact

Requestly is lightweight and doesn’t slow down your browsing experience. Our efficient implementation ensures that Requestly won’t drain your system’s energy and memory.

Active Support

We take pride in providing top-notch support to our users and helping them debug web applications faster. In fact, over 20% of our reviews mention our active support team!

Effortlessly collaborate

Collaborate with your teammates on Requestly rules to speed up debugging experience. Plus, the rules sync across devices so you can easily access all your rules from multiple machines.

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From Debug to Deploy: Developers Trust Requestly

Requestly is user-friendly, brilliant and easy-to-use. I use it on an daily basis and it makes my work easier. After using other tools like Charles – Requestly is a nice new breath of air that I highly vouch for. Apart from the tool being amazing – the support from the Requestly team is phenomenal with them always going above and beyond for their clients.

Marius Ludick
Solutions Architect II at Amazon

Requestly is an amazing tool to get your development work less hassle. The product itself has evolved so much since day-1 and the company is really serious on helping their customer solves their problems. We had this nice session where they shared Requestly features and we were very impressed on its potential. A truly 5-star worthy.

Natchapol Thongruang
Senior Software Engineer at Agoda

Just loved the way Requestly saved several person hours for our dev team by allowing us to redirect and intercept requests. The simple yet efficient rules allowed us to seamlessly redirect requests from a single staging front-end server to local backend servers. This meant that our devs didn’t need to build or run the front-end server locally when focusing on backend tasks.

Srijan Bhatnagar
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian

Modifying requests and/or responses is the killer feature area for me. Redirect JS in prod, generate mocks, modify headers, map local, map remote, SessionReplay, Load a local JS bundle, override scripts, etc. etc. etc. – TOTALLY worth it and very useful.

Jeff Chasin
Senior Evangelist at Adobe

Simple UI, Huge Impact Loved the intuitive UI for request body modification. Helped in confirming backend security with my senior engineer, even bested Postman Interceptor in some cases.

Ashish Amar
Associate Software Engineer at Rakuten Symphony

Requestly is an incredibly useful tool for developers working on a large team with multiple staging envs, or numerous app endpoints for various APIs in a local environment. The Sessions feature is especially useful for documenting solutions or sharing with others since it captures the relevant network traffic, and screen recording enables others to easily reproduce. Requestly combines all the power of complicated tools like Charles Proxy and Postman in one app/chrome extension. I highly recommend giving it a try if you haven’t already–it will make your dev work so much easier. (Summarized)

Joél Hawkins Torres
Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk

Requestly is awesome. I used to use Charles proxy in my day-to-day work but it always messed with my wifi. I haven’t had any issues with Requestly. Requestly’s UI is an amazing tool and great to work in.

Carl Hand
Senior Software Engineer at Workday

Requestly not just made it easier for us to develop, test & debug our code on our customer sites but also helped us do engaging product demos to our prospective clients.

Michael Levinson
Co-Founder & CPO at Joyned

I’m a big fan of Requestly, and use it on a daily basis as a QA Engineer. It removes the need to use Charles Proxy often, which is always nice. I can just use Requestly directly in Chrome

Mike Mitchell
QA Engineer at URBN

Awesome tool. I use it almost daily for my projects to modify request body, headers, etc. Would recommend it to every frontend developer out there. Thank me later 🙂 (Case Study)

Harsh Vats
Frontend Engineer at PingSafe

This is by far the best tool for managing request headers! Plus the developers are very active meaning you’ll get help if you’re ever stuck or need help solving a problem. I use it daily and couldn’t be happier.

Jose Browne
Senior Engineer at Reddit

App works as expected! Ran into some small issues while creating the rules but the support team was able to help and overcome those.

José Miguel Dias Fernandes
Development Lead at Vodafone