Reqable vs Sniper

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.

Sniper is a free, MIT-licensed open-source desktop proxy for intercepting, inspecting, and modifying HTTP/HTTPS traffic. It targets penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, security researchers, and developers handling security testing or API debugging. Sniper captures HTTP history and WebSocket sessions, with an intercept queue and match-and-replace rules. Request replay, payload-based fuzzing, and a passive scanner cover sensitive data, CORS issues, missing headers, and JWT issues. Isolated workspaces, host or wildcard scope filters, and a site-map visualization organize sessions. The bundled sniper-cli supports JSON-first scripting, and the repository includes Claude and Codex skill templates. Sniper can chain authenticated upstream HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies; its incoming listener accepts HTTP proxy requests and CONNECT, not SOCKS client requests. Windows users can download a setup executable or ZIP, while macOS users can download a DMG. Windows x64 is described as the first port, with Linux validation pending. Releases are not yet code-signed; Windows installers have SHA-256 files to check. A remote headless UI listener requires authentication, and the UI serves HTTP rather than TLS.