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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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 :)

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.

Cool. I appreciate the tip. I’ll give it a go.

Thanks!

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.

It does. I find the UI better and setting it up easier too

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