PonyDebugger vs Watchsend: 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 Watchsend? Watchsend records video of your users interacting with your app. Understand your users better by watching videos of how they use your app.

PonyDebugger can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Runtime Inspector" category, while Watchsend is grouped under "Mobile Video Monitoring".

Some of the features offered by PonyDebugger are:

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

On the other hand, Watchsend provides the following key features:

• Ultra-low Bandwidth & CPU- Watchsend uses less than 1MB per minute of recorded video, won't slow down your app, and doesn't impair battery life.
• Privacy First- You can choose to hide sensitive information, only record certain sections of your app, or even pixelate out all text entirely.
• Video crash reports- Watchsend can upload videos every time your app crashes, so you get to see exactly how to reproduce every crash in your app.

PonyDebugger is an open source tool with 5.71K GitHub stars and 598 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PonyDebugger's open source repository on GitHub.