Proxyfor vs Reqable

Proxyfor is a proxy command-line tool for capturing and inspecting HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, and secure WebSocket traffic. It works in forward or reverse proxy modes and offers both terminal and web interfaces. Captures stream as requests and responses arrive, allowing filtering, searching, and export to Markdown, cURL, or HAR files. The CLI can filter HTTP(S) traffic with a regular expression matching method and URI, or by MIME type. HTTPS inspection requires installing Proxyfor’s CA certificate on the target device; the project describes a built-in certificate installation app. Proxyfor runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and self-hosted deployments. Installation is documented through Cargo, Docker, or downloadable binaries, including a single-file portable executable for desktop systems. Docker instructions mount a configuration directory and expose port 8080. The project is open source under either the MIT License or Apache License 2.0. GitHub lists version 0.5.0 as the latest release.

Reqable is a cross-platform HTTP development and debugging tool for API debugging, testing, and traffic analysis. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Its debugging proxy supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2, WebSocket, HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, and SOCKS5 proxies, plus TLS versions 1.1 through 1.3. API testing also supports HTTP/3 (QUIC) and Server-Sent Events. Developers can rewrite requests, set breakpoints, modify responses, and process request or response data with Python scripts. Collections can be imported from Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, Hoppscotch, ApiFox, ApiPost, RapidAPI (Paw), cURL, and HAR. Collections remain local when signed out; signing in enables cloud storage and device syncing. The mobile app can forward traffic to the desktop app through a VPN service, but omits rewrite, breakpoint, and script features. API debugging requires a CA certificate. The Community edition permits commercial use and costs nothing, with one device and 100MB of storage. Premium costs $49.90 a year for up to six devices and 1GB of storage.