# Charles Proxy — user reviews > 231 indexed App Store user reviews of Charles Proxy by XK72 Limited, rated 4.04/5 from 185 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 120 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of Charles Proxy? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great tool for developers - 👍 Useful for debugging - 🔒 SSL proxying works - 💡 Convenient to use on mobile **Cons** - 🐛 Stability issues, crashes - 🐛 SSL certificate not trusted - 🐛 Doesn't handle gzip compression - 🐛 Slow performance compared to desktop **Commonly reported bugs** - Doesn't work with latest iOS versions - Fails to export sessions frequently - Incompatible with apps using VPN - Large JSON bodies not displayed properly **Most requested features** - Add ability to edit and replay requests - Improve JSON viewer and formatting - Add support for WebSockets - Provide option to map to local - Add scripting and breakpoint features ## Newest reviews (13 of 231) ### 4/5 — Can’t record flutter apps requests *2025-09-03, version 1.5* is there any way to work? ### 2/5 — Ios16 *2024-12-24, version 1.5* No works ### 2/5 — SSL certificate issues *2024-12-03, version 1.5* The SSL Certificate had expired and the app just stopped working. Charles team had no idea and didn’t update the certificate for a few days. Caused me hours of pain ### 3/5 — Good but needs regular updates *2024-11-07, version 1.5* Can't view response in other languages like Arabic this needs to be fixed. Please add scripting which is very useful. Also. Regular updating and maintaining. ### 2/5 — Missing iOS 18 SSL Support *2024-10-30, version 1.5* After installing the SSL certificate and installing the profile, the certificate will not show up in the Certificate Trust Settings. Thus, you cannot trust the certificate and SSL requests are unsupported. ### 2/5 — 落ちまくります *2024-10-27* iPadで利用していますが、SSLの内容を閲覧しようとタップすると落ちます。見れないじゃん。見れるのもあるけどもね。 ### 3/5 — lack of functions *2024-05-15, version 1.4* will be nice to have at least throttling for ios for that price ### 2/5 — Mostly doesn’t work *2023-12-19, version 1.4* I installed Charles Proxy to try to debug some SSO request issues, but it seems I need to restart the proxy and reinstall its SSL certificate after every single request. Most of the time, all requests time out. Eventually some combination of restarting the app, reinstalling the VPN profile and SSL certificate, and rebooting my phone gets it working again, but only for a few minutes. ### 4/5 — Bonne intégration mais export pas pratique *2023-10-27* Excellente intégration du VPN et du root certificate mais l'export est au format Charles ce qui force à télécharger le client lourd à 50$ ou bien parser soit même leur fichier alors que l'app ios est déjà payante. Un export texte ou curl ne serait pas un luxe. ### 1/5 — SSL proxy is not working. Waste of money *2023-06-19, version 1.4* Using this app I was not able to proxy SSL requests as it continuously complain about the certificate is not trusted even though you installed it correctly. Simply a waste money. ### 4/5 — Missing feature *2023-06-15, version 1.4* I really would like to see request body ungzipped please ### 1/5 — SSL still Doesn’t work *2023-03-17* SSL proxying still Doesn’t work, Fixing much appreciated ### 3/5 — Slow *2023-03-02, version 1.4* It works but the performance is extremely slow compared to using a separate desktop version of Charles. Definitely not worth the money unless it is an emergency. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 1.6 버젼부터 실행안됨 *2026-07-21* 개발자는 이거 알고있는건지 몇개월째 수정안하고 방치중임 1.5로 다시 돌려줘라 ### 1/5 — Just exits not even an error *2026-07-21, version 1.6* Open app and it just exits. Broken ### 1/5 — 闪退 *2026-06-27* 打开APP闪退，要求退款 ### 1/5 — Не работает *2026-04-02* После обновления не работает, креш при старте ### 1/5 — New UX makes everything harder *2026-03-26, version 1.6* I normally don’t come to write reviews but the new UX makes everything more complex. It used to be a single press to clear the log or send the log to a device, now it’s 3 The network call list used to be very easy to read and clear to see which API calls failed. Now each request URL is on 2 or 3 lines and color coded, but no idea what the color coding logic is. Please go back to simplifying the UX. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-10-11, version 1.5* Not sure why, but this doesn’t work with our app. You’d think this would be a simple thing to proxy, but somehow they’ve mucked this up. I get a whole lot of failed requests when I try to proxy. I’m disappointed that I spent money on this. ### 1/5 — Not working with iOS 26 *2025-10-01, version 1.5* Great when it works but it no longer works on the latest iOS 26 ### 1/5 — Very unstable - crashing *2025-07-02* It‘s really not very stable and keeps crashing on multiple iPhones. That has been the state for the past 1-2 years. Sad. ### 1/5 — 无法安装装书 *2024-11-10* 安装提示 install certificate，下载的是pem文件，iOS上无法安装，无法查看https请求内容 ### 1/5 — New features *2024-11-03, version 1.5* Please support Virtual Network Interface (VIF) breakpoints and more ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Not working *2026-03-27, version 1.6* This new version does not seem to be working. It crashes as soon as the app opens ### 5/5 — Feature request *2025-06-27* Please provide an option of map to local ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-11-30, version 1.5* Allowed me to quickly inspect requests from an app. ### 5/5 — New feature *2024-11-02, version 1.5* App is great. But I would like to see the desktop feature “external proxy”. It would be amazing. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Top app *2024-10-26, version 1.5* Wonderful app all over the years ### 5/5 — Thanks and feature requests *2023-12-21, version 1.4* Hello, this is really a great software, it helps me a lot in my work, but it would be great if you could add curl copy, filter by host,... feature. Thank you, best wishes a good day. ### 5/5 — Please create an app for Android too!!! *2023-09-25, version 1.4* Please!!! ### 5/5 — Yes it works *2022-11-24, version 1.4* Please install certificates to make it work properly ### 5/5 — Such a great app *2022-09-19, version 1.4* Hope there are some updates soon! ### 5/5 — How can I capture requests if I am using OpenVPN app? *2022-06-15, version 1.4* —— --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*