Charles Web Debugging Proxy vs. Chrome DevTools

Charles Web Debugging Proxy

Charles Web Debugging Proxy

1 Reviews and Ratings

Chrome DevTools

Chrome DevTools

133 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Charles Web Debugging Proxy	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).	$50 one-time fee
Chrome DevTools	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	Chrome DevTools is a set of authoring, debugging, and profiling tools built into Google Chrome.	N/A

Pricing

Charles Web Debugging Proxy

Chrome DevTools

Editions & Modules

Charles User License: $50
one-time fee
Charles Site License: $400
one-time fee

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Charles Web Debugging Proxy	Chrome DevTools
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Charles Web Debugging Proxy	Chrome DevTools
Considered Both Products	Charles Web Debugging Proxy No answer on this topic	Chrome DevTools JG José Gomes Systems Engineer Chose Chrome DevTools DevTools is more commonly available due to the huge market share and has become the familiar standard for this type of tool. The other tools work but not as smoothly and pleasantly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools It is much faster than other tools and being integrated within the browser makes it easier to use as there is no time wasted switching context. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools AEM isn't really like Chrome DevTools but offers some ability to crop images once you see how the content would look on a particular device. So I would say AEM compliments this tool, rather than be considered as a replacement or competitor. Incentivized Helpful? NI Natasha Ing Student Chose Chrome DevTools I have not used any other tools that are similar to Chrome DevTools. However, I have been thoroughly impressed by the Chrome DevTools service and its features. With its extensive features, I would imagine it would serve as a top leader in comparison to similar products and … Incentivized Helpful? Laura Glover Information Designer Chose Chrome DevTools I find them pretty much the same, they have the same tools except Firefox doesn't provide the lighthouse functionality. I do prefer firefox's dark theme and colour palette. But I use Chrome Dev tools because of the Light house functionality that analyzes the page load and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools Chrome DevTools is a library of tools where others like a visual studio can only offer some under level. Chrome DevTools let also debug websites on the internet even if you don't own them. Chrome DevTools is really easy to use and you don't need a lot to understand how it is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools We can use code editors but by using DevTools we can write code and see output on the fly. We have similar alternatives like Firefox, and Microsoft edge but they did not provide this much flexibility and options. Chrome DevTools introduced some features like full screenshots. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools Chrome is well suited to our needs as the majority of our traffic uses Google Chrome Incentivized Helpful? SS Sandro Silva IT Consultant Chose Chrome DevTools The main factor is that it does not need its own installation package, as it is part of the Google Chrome browser, other tools such as SysInternals and Wireshark have a certain release resistance on the part of IT and Information Security teams. Another reason is that with any … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools Although it uses a lot of memory, we chose Chrome DevTools over Sentry since it comes pre-installed with the browser and has better performance overall. Manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM) and pseudo-classes in Chrome DevTools is a breeze, and you can even do it from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools It's just built into Chrome and is so easy to use. Any other extension within chrome is one step removed - the use of DevTools is just part of the fabric of Chrome and integral to my everyday tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools 1. Chrome dev tools is easy to use 2. It has so much feature like lighthouse , application etc. 3. A console to execute our own code Incentivized Helpful? MS Manas Singh IT Architect Chose Chrome DevTools Safari and Firefox have similar capabilities but since the Chrome browser is more popular, it is used by the development team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools We selected DevTools against Firebug as there is no need to install any additional plugin because DevTools is part of the browser and the performance is incredible in spite of the amount of RAM it consumes. Chrome DevTools outperforms similar tools in other browsers such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools I have tried Firefox DevTools. It has similar functionality with Chrome DevTools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools When we develop for Chrome, we use Chrome DevTools. If we asked to develop for other browsers, we use their tools. But Chrome is more frequently preferred by our clients Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Chose Chrome DevTools The main tool I've used that compares to Chrome DevTools is the Firefox built-in development tools. The one thing that I know I like better about Firefox is the screenshot support, which has many great features. Firefox even has a special developer edition of their browser … Incentivized Helpful? Jan Peterson Senior DevOps Architect Chose Chrome DevTools Unable to enter Firefox Developer Tools above, but that was the main alternative. We do still use it on occasion as sometimes things look/work well in Chrome but not in Firefox. In general, however, Chrome DevTools are more commonly used as that is the browser most of our … Incentivized Helpful? Jake Tolbert Director of Development - Data Services Chose Chrome DevTools While I like the look and feel of Firebug a lot better than DevTools, the Chrome version is just better. Firebug has (or had? I haven't used it in several years) some serious performance issues that would slow Firefox down to a crawl if you didn't forget to turn it off. … Incentivized Helpful? Taylor Morgan Web Designer / Developer II Chose Chrome DevTools Chrome DevTools is our team's go-to solution for development and debugging, but most major browsers include similar tools. Firefox and Edge include tools that do just about every major item DevTools does, but Chrome's implementation is at least as polished as Firefox's and … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Tanzi Software Engineer Chose Chrome DevTools Chrome DevTools stacks up well against similar browser tools like those offered by Microsoft Edge and Firefox. It has plenty of strengths and while it may not stand out strongly from the crowd amongst its peers it has built a strong user base around it due to its constant … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Kumar Singh Software Developer Chose Chrome DevTools I generally use the Internet Explorer developer tool that is also good but not as good as Chrome DevTool in every aspect. In Chrome DevTool one can just hover over the object and can see the all detail but in IE developer tool you manually have to console it. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose Chrome DevTools Because Chrome is the most popular tool out there, you can guarantee that if your website works for this browser, it will for the majority of people on the Internet. Also, for the same reason, you can find a lot of tutorials and documentation on how to use these tools. Incentivized Helpful? Christiaan Bollen SEO Expert & Founder Chose Chrome DevTools Chrome is my browser of choice and so Chrome DevTools is the tool to use here. In the past I used Firebug in Firefox (now Firefox Developer Tools) and had a good experience with that tools too. They are very similar. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chrome DevTools The only other comparable product I've used is FireBug, which is good but not quite as fully featured as Chrome DevTools in my opinion. It does a lot of similar things but it isn't built into the browser, it's an add-on that must be installed, updated, and if you decide you … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Charles Web Debugging Proxy	Chrome DevTools
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Charles Web Debugging Proxy	Chrome DevTools
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Chrome DevTools helps us identify areas to address such as optimising website performance, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive design. We use the Coverage and panel to identify any unused code, which can cause slow loading times, together with the Network panel which is crucial for analysing page load performance and optimising resources. Incentivized Martin Dimmock Owner, Chief Developer Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Provides clear, easy to understand, and actionable intelligence on how the browser is retrieving, parsing and rendering the page. Covers a wide gamut of front-end development tasks, from manipulating CSS rules to line-by-line debugging of JavaScript to helpful page and server insights. Continuously incorporates new tools and helpful features. With nearly every major Chrome release there is a "What's new" update with at least one or two useful items. Incentivized Taylor Morgan Web Designer / Developer II Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	It would be nice in the elements panel, if clicking on a node scrolled the screen to that node. On some large pages its easy to get lost in the code and not know where the element you're inspecting resides on the screen. It would be nice if, in addition to the console, there was a panel that behaved more like an editor instead of a command prompt. It may seem trivial but it would be very helpful when writing multi-line functions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	While Chrome DevTools are very powerful, it's not the easiest thing to use, as there are so many different tools built in. It takes some exploring to discover all the options possible within DevTools, but with a little exploring, the DevTools become a very powerful asset. Accessing the basic HTML and CSS inspection is very easy though, and that's the most common usage for the DevTools. Incentivized Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I'm not entirely sure what to rate the support for DevTools, because I don't have any experience dealing with official customer support for DevTools. I would guess the primary support for DevTools would be in a Chrome forum. Typically if I have a question or issue, I am able to find an answer from doing a quick Google search. It's pretty widely used, so it's not difficult to find answers. Incentivized Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	I find them pretty much the same, they have the same tools except Firefox doesn't provide the lighthouse functionality. I do prefer firefox's dark theme and colour palette. But I use Chrome Dev tools because of the Light house functionality that analyzes the page load and scores the website on desktop and mobile experience. Incentivized Laura Glover Information Designer Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	All positive, the tool is free so there's no need to spend money on it. Every return is positive. A lot, their tools increases productivity due because it helps developers to create and test websites inside the browser. Tools are intuitive so there's no need to invest in education on developers to learn these tools. Incentivized Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Read full review
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