PonyDebugger vs Reveal App

PonyDebugger vs Reveal App: What are the differences?

What is PonyDebugger? Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools. PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset. It is a client library and gateway server combination that uses Chrome Developer Tools on your browser to debug your application's network traffic and managed object contexts To use PonyDebugger, you must implement the client in your application and connect it to the gateway server. There is currently an iOS client and the gateway server..

What is Reveal App? See your iOS application's view hierarchy at runtime with advanced 2D and 3D visualisations. Reveal brings the power of tools like Firebug and Web Inspector to iOS developers. See your application's view hierarchy at runtime with advanced 2D and 3D visualisations. Debug view layout and rendering problems in seconds.

PonyDebugger and Reveal App can be categorized as "Mobile Runtime Inspector" tools.

Some of the features offered by PonyDebugger are:

• Network Traffic Debugging
• Core Data Browser
• View Hierarchy Debugging

On the other hand, Reveal App provides the following key features:

• Instrument your apps - Simply link your iOS application with the Reveal library, start it up, and you'll be able to see and interact with your application like never before.
• See changes, live! - You can edit and modify views in your running application to see the effect immediately. No more recompiling to test simple visual changes.
• Focus - View hierarchies can get complex. Simply double click a view to isolate it, and all its subviews. Use the path bar to navigate up the hierarchy, and use the history buttons to go back to where you've been.

PonyDebugger is an open source tool with 5.71K GitHub stars and 597 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PonyDebugger's open source repository on GitHub.