# Charles Proxy Reviews **Vendor:** Xk72 **Category:** [Bug Tracking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/bug-tracking) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 ## About Charles Proxy Charles Proxy is a robust web debugging proxy application designed for Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. It enables developers to monitor, analyze, and manipulate HTTP and HTTPS traffic between their computer and the internet. By acting as an intermediary, Charles captures all data exchanged between the client and server, including requests, responses, headers, and metadata. This comprehensive visibility facilitates efficient debugging and optimization of web applications, allowing developers to identify and resolve issues promptly. Key Features and Functionality: - SSL Proxying: Decrypt and inspect SSL-encrypted traffic to view secure requests and responses in plain text. - Bandwidth Throttling: Simulate various network conditions by controlling bandwidth and introducing latency, aiding in performance testing under different scenarios. - AJAX Debugging: Examine XML and JSON requests and responses, presented in a structured tree format for easy analysis. - AMF Support: Analyze Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3) messages, beneficial for developers working with Adobe Flash. - Request Modification: Repeat and edit requests to test backend changes and different inputs without altering the client application. - Breakpoints: Intercept and modify requests or responses in real-time to test specific scenarios or troubleshoot issues. - Validation Tools: Validate recorded HTML, CSS, and RSS/Atom responses using the W3C validator to ensure compliance with web standards. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Charles Proxy addresses the challenge developers face in observing and understanding the data exchanged between their applications and servers. By providing a transparent view of all HTTP and HTTPS traffic, it simplifies the process of diagnosing and fixing issues related to network communication, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities. Its ability to simulate different network conditions and intercept encrypted traffic makes it an invaluable tool for ensuring web applications function correctly across various environments and scenarios. ## Charles Proxy Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **rapid deployment speed** of Charles Proxy, which saves time and bandwidth effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency** of Charles Proxy, enhancing web page loading and conserving bandwidth effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Charles Proxy, enabling versatile installation and efficient LAN query management. (1 reviews) - Users value the **performance optimization** of Charles Proxy, enhancing efficiency in managing proxy connections effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexible proxy management** of Charles Proxy, enabling seamless control and efficient local storage access. (1 reviews) - Security (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **difficult setup** challenging, especially with complex networks and when configuring additional functions. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex configuration** challenging, especially for new users wanting to enhance their system functionality. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of configuring extra functions intimidating, especially for new users aiming to improve their system. (1 reviews) - Users often face **connectivity issues** with Charles Proxy, requiring extended time to establish a reliable network connection. (1 reviews) - Users find the **intuitiveness lacking** , especially for new users needing assistance with configuration and installation. (1 reviews) - Slow Loading (1 reviews) ## Charles Proxy Reviews ### 1. Great for Mobile Logs, But Slow Start and Network Issues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giorgi M. | Lecturer/QA Engineer, Gambling & Casinos, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** best tool to check requests/responces,good for mobile logs **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** need quite a time to start,have issues with network/vpn **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** checking responces while testing ### 2. Charles Proxy is a powerful debugging tool used for analyzing and manipulating network traffic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gorinta M. | QA Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Charles Proxy's ability to intercept and inspect HTTP and HTTPS traffic allows users to view and modify requests and responses for detailed analysis and troubleshooting. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** While working with Charles, I faced an internet connectivity issue a couple of times. i need to restart my system sometimes. This makes little choosy for customers to choose Charles and to use. And also, it has a learning curve and can be complex for inexperienced users to navigate, especially when dealing with advanced features and configurations **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Charles, we can able to intercept and inspect the requests triggering when we interact with the application functionalities, and also we can make sure the application is working fine by verifying the requests triggered in Charles. We can also see how system reacts with some customized requests ### 3. Edge case testing and mocking made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Disha J. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** I mostly use charles to mock the api responses. It helps to complete edge case coding without waiting for backend to deploy changed responses to various kind of use cases and error codes.API debugging is also very simplified by using charles. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Charles is mostly easy to use once set up. Initially, a new person needs a little help to setup but that can be easily achieved by reading out well laid out steps of charles help section. Other than that, i dont find anything which i dislike about charles. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** As explained above, charles proxy is best tool you will find in market for api response mocking. Its major use case is api mocking, edge case testing, and api debugging. Without relying on anyone, i can finish my work by mocking the api json for all the use cases possible. ### 4. Charles Proxy is an Excellent traffic Analyser tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Charles Proxy is my go-to tool for identifying malicious traffic.It stores the cache to analyse the the traffic much faster and also used for API testing , SSL &TLS traffic inspection and also domain categorisation . **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** OS compatibility and Manual guide for configuration of this tool can be improved as I have been testing this on windows and it's bit tricky when it is setup on Linux or MAC. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Charles tool is helping organization with API debugging , traffic inspection ,improving the network latency . The URL categorisation will help to block malicious traffic which is very much needed for daily operations. ### 5. My goto tool for HTTP traffic monitoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** * Charles can decrypt and inspect SSL/TLS encrypted traffic, even for secure HTTPS connections. * Charles enables you to modify HTTP requests and responses on the fly. You can edit request and response headers, change parameters, or even change the content of a response. * Websocket support **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** * Charles Proxy is a commercial tool and is not available for free. * Since Charles Proxy intercepts and analyses network traffic, it introduces an additional layer in the communication flow. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me monitor https communication done by an in-house web application. We do performance enhancements based on the network calls (see which network call is taking how much time and remove/replace network calls as necessary). ### 6. Charles Proxy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NEELAM A. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** One of the best tool for server side testing. Can track all the calls fired by the app or web. It becomes very much easier for the tester to check all the calls fired and validate its response at one place. It also structures the call based of the particular source i.e function Request type can also be sorted and filtered. Also has the best option to manipulate data in the request or response and verify the server response based on the input using rewrite and breakpoint functions. Can also check network throttling. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** The only issue one can face is while setting it up with Mac , although the set up only requires to enable Mac option in charles , but enabling it sometimes get the network down... and takes a few attempts to quit and relaunch Charles again. Functionality wise there is nothing to dislike in the app. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use charles on daily basis to check new features in our app and web. It helps in testing the new Api calls also in validating whether existing Api calls are affected or not. It saves a lot of time in debugging a defect using Charles as compared to using any other api tool like postman or Rest api.. where we manually need to check each and every API call that the app or web fires. But in Charles all calls are shown in one go as the user performs any action. ### 7. Cache Storage Proxy Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Cache storage without needing a dedicated server, install on my Windows OS and store on my storage disk and all query directly over LAN. Functions of prohibiting access, URL control and connected users. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** It is necessary to improve the configuration of extra functions, more intuitive to install on PCs of new users who wish to improve their system. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Save bandwidth of my PC Internet connected in office, load web faster and prohibit access to URL from a PC. Filter all content and measure traffic for performance improvement. ### 8. Charles has helped me a lot when testing pages **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gloriana C. | Junior Quality Assurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** I like that this helped me when testing a page that is outside our web site but it has components that we need to see and check. Ex: a global nav (Menu) **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** It is hard to use and difficult to understand. You need to follow instructions made by someone who has more experience using it. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing components used on a page we are to able to author ### 9. Store web cache **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel C. | Software engineer, Consumer Goods, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Speed in web page loading from a host PC, does not need a dedicated server, install from Windows and store web cache and save Internet bandwidth. Direct code upload from the local network is efficient. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Setting up is laborious at first when I have a very wide network. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster loading of web pages within the local network, all PCs request first by the PC proxy by IP. ### 10. The best application for enforcing proxies and collecting network logs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh M. | Content creator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** My favourite feature about Charles proxy is that it is really easy to use and can be used to enforce proxy or throttle any network on any device including mobile phones, tablets or even TVs **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Though I've generally used Charles proxy on Mac OS, i find the same difficult and lesser user friendly on a windows computer. If this was improved, I'd totally love the application. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** I'd definitely recommend this application to anyone who needs to work with network logs everyday. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Charles proxy on a daily basis to collect network logs of devices that are really difficult to collect otherwise. I also use the same to throttle network as it is required while testing apps. ### 11. cross-platform HTTP debugging proxy server application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh Shukla F. | Qa engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** best thing is easy to integrate, and super smooth to work with. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** to use multiple user we have to buy License **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** A comprehensive walkthrough of using Charles to observe and modify traffic, including using it with mobile devices. ### 12. Review - Charles Proxy Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiv R. | Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Simple ui Easy to understand network calls API testing Configurable with multiple platforms - web, iOS , Android **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Nothing as such. Works very well, serves the purpose of debugging **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring API calls Can monitor https, https calls Extract the response of api Re-write rules, hardcode response ### 13. Charles Proxy is a Fantastic Piece of Software - When It Works **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Charles Proxy captures all of my device's network requests and responses. I am able to effectively monitor and manipulate these requests to suit my needs in a relatively straightforward interface. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Charles Proxy has the tendency to suddenly cease working for unknown reasons. Settings and preferences used just the day prior will block all requests the next day. I have had to initiate many fresh reinstalls of Charles due to this phenomenon. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** Charles can serve you well if you are comfortable troubleshooting issues that seem to spring up without cause. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Charles Proxy allows me to capture network requests and responses from my mobile devices, ensuring that our mobile app (iOS and Android) and APIs function and post as expected. ### 14. Good Tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Easy to use once setup is done. SSL Proxying helps in local development way faster in deploying to QA servers. Dev workflow needs to be mastered , then it becomes a piece of cake . Inspect network traffic and capture sessions with export in JSON option, **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** App crashes when sessions are disconnected / removed. A bit of learning curve understanding the jardon's of Dev workflow .Also quite a bit of inconvience when export option of large sessions. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** A bit of learning curve and a setup process , but definetly worth it after that step . **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deloyment of local code base on QA serves with the ease SSL proxying. Makes dev life a smooth ride and saves a lot of dev testing time. A good track of what the others apps are transmitting on second basis . ### 15. Best proxy tool to sniff your network traffic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** As a QA engineer, this tool is very helpful for me to verify the API's while doing mobile application testing **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Sometimes tool behaves abnormally though proxy setup is correct **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Verify the API response and data Tweak the request and response and verify the UI Verify API response time ### 16. Loading Web Browser **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hector L. | Security Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** I like the system integration, it loads stored web page memory and it is compatible with Linux and Windows. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** I don't like to integrate system with VPN Internet security. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** Use in personal PC, Internet control, Internet access and faster loading web page. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatic loading from PC cache memory, I store 35% of web page and save Internet bandwidth. ### 17. Top class data recording **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Category is the best thing. We can see URLs ,headers ,JSON in different tabs **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Free user time should be increased to 45 minutes **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile app API response debugging ### 18. Swiss Army Knife **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** So many useful different functions such as mobile device proxy, rewrites, & bandwidth throttling. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Documentation could definitely be better. It can sometimes be a little confusing on how to enable certain features, and what exactly they do. Generally there's someone who has run into the same problem as you online though. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can connect our mobile test devices via Charles to record API request/responses, and also throttle bandwidths to simulate different network circumstances. This makes our testing more efficient. ### 19. Useful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** It allows you to intercept and change requests, so you can test your client without changing data on the backend **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Not free. I'd love it to have some basic free version **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** if I'm testing mobile app, there might be a lot of scenarios where you need different data from the backend. With Charles, you can intercept requests and change them to test different scenarios without spending time/effort on actually manipulating backend data ### 20. Used for API Testing, BE responses and FE request **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis P. | QA Tester, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** It is easy to use, make mobile testing a better experience. API responses and request can be tested at the same time with Front End. I was happy I could test API just together with FE. It can be connected to iOS and Android. You even have the chance to use it for free. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** it should be available in other languages. Also it is not possible to use for Android devices that work with Operational Software bellow 6. Maybe it is not possible the implementation and well not much people is using Android 5 anymore but it would be nice. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** It can be a bit difficult the first time to use but after all fields are correctly adjusted for your necessities everything is gonna be easy and helpful. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is necessary for the API testing. It helped me to analyze the BE responses and I could check when I got some BE issues. One of the member of my QA team showed me how to work with Charles and after the first day I could be independent. ### 21. Charles Is A Keeper **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex T. | CPO, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Charles proxy was easy to install, and easy to use once I got the hang of it. I always used web based proxies, so this was a little different but once I got the settings right, all was smooth sailing. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Not much really. I dont have much experience with ACTUAL proxy software, all of my experience has been with a web based server, so I haven't noticed anything I dislike, because I have nothing to compare it to. . **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** If you need a proxy Charles works. I am still in the trial stages (I just started my own business so everything is still getting worked out) but I will continue to look at other proxies for aesthetics (I am a girl lol) and just to stay on top of the game as much as I can in terms of knowledge base. But this solved my problems in the short term & may end up keeping it. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anonymity ... Its nice to be able to browse with out the weird pop up things I used to get without it. And weird wifi interruptions. Never thought about that one. ### 22. Fantastic Proxy + Much More **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** The ability to decrypt proxied SSL traffic and throttle connections to test for slow networks. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Requires a lot of disk space, there is no built-in testing suite. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** There are lots of tutorials on the internet showing how to do different things with Charles proxy, I recommend viewing them to help get started. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to proxy traffic and see what is being transferred over a mobile app or other connection is valuable. ### 23. Speed and security from web browser. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Virginia T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** I like the easy integration into the browser, it is fast and secure without the need for an external server or network configuration. The diagnosis helps me to review all errors and solve quickly. Compatibility with Windows and Linux. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** When I connect my Internet with VPN security the connection fails and is slow. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** I recommend this system for the ease of use, it is fast to the web browser. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I give security to my connection in HTTP pages and loading speed. ### 24. Don’t know how I’d do my job without Charles **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Addison F. | iOS Engineer I, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Charles enables me to have deep and easy to access insights into the data I’m working with. I use it regularly when debugging iOS applications. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Searching for keywords can be a bit finicky with XML responses. I wish it worked as well as the search functionality for JSON objects. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** This is the tool you’re looking for. We’ve yet to find a better solution. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validating data transfer between server and client applications. We used to build our own network sniffers for debugging traffic but Charles makes it incredibly easy. I especially love the benefit of setting breakpoints and being able to edit request/response data in transit. ### 25. This is the standard for debugging network communication **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** This is one of those tools where you ask yourself how you could ever do your job before you had it. It makes debugging network communication so much easier, and it also helps in inspecting what communication takes place to begin with. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** The only thing I "dislike" is the "shareware" aspect of it, with the nag screens etc. if you haven't bought it. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Charles to debug netowrk communications between services. It has exposed problems that would have been difficult to understand otherwise ### 26. Helpful debugging tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Able to easily see what network calls are made **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Free version can be a bit annoying with certain limitations **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Discovering what API calls are made when interacting with our web application ### 27. This is a tool that assists or provides aid. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Monitor traffic, change response/request **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** Nothing to dislike. Everything is great. Thank you. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I found bugs and understood why they existed and how they should be fixed. ### 28. A great tool for debugging web connections on a Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Earl B. | Sr EV Solutions Engineer -- Firmware, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Doesn't require drivers or any other soft of weird install that would be problematic on a Mac. Tracks all of the connections outgoing with out disrupting them. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** When you have a lot of active web sessions going, the "highlighting" can be a little bit trick to keep track of. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** If you need to debug web connection traffic and are using a Mac, this is a indispensable tool. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to debug transactions on Web Apps (especially dynamic ones), debugging what is consuming resources on a Mac, etc. ### 29. Extremely useful for debugging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gil B. | DevOps team lead and all-trader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Great set of features, has given us significant insight using iOS application development **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** we had some setup issues and various issues with SSL, but all in all, things have resolved eventually. **Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:** This is a good proxy solution which is useful for app developers **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** streamlining of iOS issue debugging in a network-heavy environment ### 30. Charles proxy tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Can be used to test network Reciliency. Throttling the network to specific bandwidth for digging into network issues. We can view the network traffic same as dev tools in browser. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** When using the VPN., the tool has to be emablec before connecting to VPN to ovoid issues with losing WiFi **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Qa engineer I used the Charles proxy tool for neywork reseleincy testing when user in poor bandwidth speed how the experience in the product. This toll was very handy and was able to caught bugs related to poor network in the product I was testing. ### 31. Great tools for viewing TCP/HTTP packet requests and responses **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Louloua J. | Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Love how easy it is to setup and start debugging. Helps in crucial of times when its hard to understand communication between devices **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** there doesnt seem like there is any easy way to filter headers. Also, the fact that the information cannot be copied over to text or notepad. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its easy to debug what information is being sent between devices. Easy to snoop requests and responses between iPads and other supported third party devices. ### 32. Very robust tool but overly complex for non-technical users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Charles Proxy?** Once setup and working, it's an extremely helpful way to swap out files. **What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?** It requires a good deal of setup. Getting the SSH tokens up and working requires a technical background or a well documented implementation guide. **What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in tag management with Tealium and Charles was one of the ways we tested changes we were making. 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