Alternative

A Requestly alternative for native apps

Requestly is excellent inside a browser tab. The day your bug is inside an iPhone app, you need a capture that lives on the phone.

People look for a Requestly alternative when the traffic they need has left the browser: a native iOS or Android app, a fleet of test phones, or a backend they want the whole team watching. Busymate DevTools captures on the device itself, folds the browser and the proxy into the same feed, and gives an AI agent a supervised seat at the table.

Try one workflow before switching

  1. Keep your existing capture files. Pair one test device with Busymate and capture a request you already understand.
  2. Recreate one mock or breakpoint and check the result. Existing proxy settings and rules are not automatically transferred.
  3. Confirm that cloud storage, the retention window, and device access grants suit your team before moving a larger workflow.
Guides

Where the difference is

Built for the phone, the team, and the agent

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.

Side by side

The same questions, answered for both

Our column lists only what has shipped. Their column rests on what we read on their own public pages — anything we could not confirm is marked, not guessed.

Busymate DevTools
Requestly
iPhone capture on the device itself
Included
Native app, local VPN tunnel, no Mac
Not verified
No mobile app on the pages we readSource: requestly.com
Android capture on the device itself
Included
Native app on Google Play, VPN-based
Not verified
No mobile app on the pages we readSource: requestly.com
Desktop HTTPS proxy
Included
Local HTTPS proxy for browsers and backends
Not verified
Desktop app exists; system-wide proxying not verifiedSource: requestly.com
Chrome capture
Included
Chrome DevTools Protocol capture from the terminal
Included
Browser extensionSource: requestly.com
Real-device phone farm
Included
Real Android and iOS phones, mirrored and driven from the browser
Not verified
Not verified
One live feed a team shares
Included
A live capture feed with access scoped to owned devices and explicit grants
Partly
Shared API-client workspaces, not a live traffic feedSource: requestly.com
Team roles and permissions
Included
Roles enforced in the database with row-level security
Included
Role-based access, SSO on paid tiersSource: requestly.com
AI agent over the traffic
Included
454 MCP tools with role-scoped access and confirmation for destructive actions
Partly
AI test-case generator in the API clientSource: requestly.com
Breakpoints and resend
Included
Pause, edit and resend from the dashboard
Not verified
Not verified
Mock and rewrite responses
Included
Mock responses and block rules
Included
Scripting
Included
Scripts scoped per device, user or service
Partly
Script injection and pre/post request scriptsSource: requestly.com
Audit trail and secrets vault
Included
Append-only audit trail; write-only encrypted vault
Partly
Audit logs on paid tiers; a secrets vaultSource: requestly.com
Platforms
Included
iPhone, Android, Chrome, any proxy client, web dashboard
Included
Desktop apps plus four browser extensionsSource: requestly.com
Open source
Not included
Private repository; source on request
Partly
Interceptor is AGPLv3; the API client is closed-sourceSource: github.com
Free tier
Included
Free to install today; paid tiers are still in draft
Included
Free for up to 10 collaborators; Pro $12 per user per monthSource: requestly.com
  • Included
  • Partly
  • Not included
  • Not verified

Facts about Requestly were read on its public product, pricing and documentation pages on 2026-09-01. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct the page. Report a correction

A fair call

When Requestly is the right pick

Plenty of teams should keep using Requestly. These are the cases where we would tell you to.

Your work is in the browser

Header edits, redirects, script injection and mocks straight from an extension — no proxy, no certificate. For front-end teams that is the shortest path.

You want an API client with Git in it

Collections stored as JSON in your repo, environments, a runner and a CLI for CI — Requestly is an API client first.

You need SOC 2 and SSO today

Requestly lists SOC 2 Type II, SSO and audit logs on its paid tiers. If procurement asks for those names, it has the answers ready.

Still weighing both tools?Read the full Requestly comparison

FAQ

Questions people ask before switching

Can I still rewrite requests in the browser?

Yes — point Chrome at the local proxy or run the bmc capture, then use mocks, block rules and breakpoints. There is no extension-style script injection into pages; if that is your main use, keep Requestly for it.

Is there an API client and collection runner?

No. Busymate DevTools is a capture and control tool, not a collection-based API client. Resend replays a captured request and the REST API exposes what you captured, but there is no Postman-style workspace.

Do I get team roles and an audit trail?

Yes. Roles are enforced in the database with row-level security, every action across every surface lands in an append-only audit trail, and secrets go into a write-only vault that no surface can read back.

How does the free tier compare?

Requestly is free for up to 10 collaborators with Pro at $12 per user per month. Busymate DevTools is free to install today; its paid tiers are published as a draft and are not final.

See your own traffic in one feed

Follow the setup guide for your capture source, then open a request in the dashboard. HTTPS decryption requires certificate trust and a supported client.

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