A Proxyman alternative that
If you are leaving Proxyman it is rarely because the capture is bad — it is because the capture stays on one laptop. Keep the phone-native capture and move the feed to the cloud.
The usual reasons teams look past Proxyman are a per-seat licence that scales with headcount, logs that live on individual machines until someone shares them, and an Android story that is a separate app rather than the same feed. Busymate DevTools answers those three directly: one hosted feed, roles instead of seats, and iPhone, Android, Chrome and a phone farm writing into the same place.
Try one workflow before switching
- Keep your existing capture files. Pair one test device with Busymate and capture a request you already understand.
- Recreate one mock or breakpoint and check the result. Existing proxy settings and rules are not automatically transferred.
- Confirm that cloud storage, the retention window, and device access grants suit your team before moving a larger workflow.
Built for the phone,
Compare the complete workflow: where capture runs, how you share access, and how you automate debugging.
Capture from iPhone, Android, Chrome, the proxy, and your phone farm in one place. Teammates see requests from devices they own or have been granted access to.
454 MCP tools let your agent inspect captured traffic and act within your role. Destructive actions require confirmation.
A rack of real Android and iOS devices you mirror, tap and script from the browser — or from a sentence typed to the agent.
Permissions are enforced in the database, actions are recorded in an audit trail, and the dashboard and API cannot reveal stored vault secrets.
The same questions,
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When Proxyman is the right pick
Plenty of teams should keep using Proxyman. These are the cases where we would tell you to.
You want a native Mac app
Proxyman's macOS app is fast and polished — diff tool, command palette, request composer. If your debugging lives on one Mac, it is hard to beat.
You prefer a one-time licence
A perpetual seat with a year of updates suits a solo developer who does not want a subscription or a hosted service in the loop.
Your traffic must never leave the machine
Proxyman keeps logs local by default. If policy forbids a hosted feed, a local-first desktop debugger is the right shape.
Questions people ask
Will I lose on-device iPhone capture?
No. The Busymate DevTools iOS app captures on the phone through a local VPN tunnel, decrypts the domains you list, and needs no Mac — the same job Proxyman for iOS does.
What do I give up?
A native macOS window. Busymate DevTools' dashboard is a web app, so inspection happens in the browser rather than a desktop app with a diff tool and command palette. If you live in a Mac-native workflow, that is a real trade.
Can I bring my Map Local and breakpoint habits?
Yes — breakpoints pause and edit a request, resend replays it, mocks and block rules shape responses, and scripts run per device, user or service. The concepts map one to one; the rules are stored server-side instead of in a local app.
How does an AI agent fit in?
Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to the hosted MCP endpoint and it can read the same feed your team sees, replay a request or drive a farm phone — with every write waiting for your confirmation.
See your own traffic
Follow the setup guide for your capture source, then open a request in the dashboard. HTTPS decryption requires certificate trust and a supported client.