Comparison

Egern vs Reqable

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Egern

This app is a powerful network analysis tool for proxying, intercepting, and modifying network traffic. It offers comprehensive recording of various protocols and supports extensive rule types for flexible traffic management. Users can decrypt HTTPS, rewrite URLs and headers, and utilize JavaScript for custom operations.

Highlights
  • Network traffic recording (TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP)
  • Extensive rule types for traffic control
  • Multiple proxy protocol support
  • HTTPS traffic decryption
  • URL and header rewriting
  • JavaScript for custom operations
  • iCloud configuration sync
Features
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Egern is a feature-rich and powerful networking tool, specifically designed for proxying, intercepting, and modifying network traffic. Key features include: · Comprehensive recording of TCP, UDP, DNS, and HTTP network traffic. · Support for a wide range of rule types: domain, domain keywords, domain suffix, domain regular expressions, domain wildcard, geo-location, IPv4/IPv6 CIDR, URL regular expressions, logical, protocol, user-agent, rule sets, and default rules. · Flexible policy group options: selection, automatic testing, fallback, load balancing, and external policies. · Support for multiple proxy protocols: HTTP, SOCKS5, Shadowsocks, Trojan, Hysteria2, TUIC, Vless, and Vmess. · Effortlessly decrypt HTTPS traffic using Man-in-the-Middle attack techniques. · URL rewriting capabilities, allowing you to freely customize network requests. · Highly customizable request and response header rewriting functionality. · Versatile request and response content rewriting abilities. · Utilize JavaScript to provide customized operations on request and response data. · Support for local HTTP proxy server and local SOCKS5 proxy server to meet various networking needs. · DNS forwarding rules can proxy traffic to servers that support DoH, DoT, and DoQ protocols. · Sync configuration information across devices with iCloud, ensuring consistent network settings anywhere, anytime. As your ultimate network management tool, Egern helps you easily navigate various network environments and achieve efficient network control and debugging. Whether you're a network security expert, developer, or simply interested in network management, Egern will become an indispensable tool. Experience the powerful features of Egern and create your own exclusive networking environment today! Twitter: https://twitter.com/byteallen

About

Reqable

This tool acts as an advanced API debugging proxy, allowing you to inspect and test HTTP/HTTPS traffic independently or collaboratively with a desktop app. It supports various protocols and offers REST API management features for efficient development.

Highlights
  • Standalone traffic inspection
  • Collaborative mode with desktop app
  • HTTP/HTTPS traffic analysis
  • REST API management
  • Multiple request views (JSON, Hex, Image)
  • Compose and repeat requests
  • Search and filter traffic
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Reqable is a new generation API debugging and testing one-stop solution, advanced web debugging proxy, making your work faster and simpler. Reqable can inspect HTTP/HTTPS traffic of your app, help you find and locale issue easily. #1 Standalone Mode: Traffic inspection can be performed independently without relying on the desktop. You can view the captured HTTP protocol message in the app, reqable provides many views, such as JsonViewer, HexViewer, ImageViewer and so on. And you can perform many actions on the traffic, like repeat, share to someone, save to phone, etc. #2 Collaborative Mode: The app could forward traffic to Reqable desktop app by scanning the QR code without manually configuring the Wi-Fi proxy. And iOS app provides the enhanced mode to capture the app that not using Wi-Fi proxy, such Flutter apps. With the collaborative mode, you can perform actions on desktop rather than mobile, it will greatly improve your work. #3 Traffic Inspection Reqable iOS uses the classic MITM proxy method for traffic inspection, support the following features: - HTTP/1.x and HTTP2 protocol. - HTTP/HTTPS/Socks4/Socks4a/Socks5 proxy protocol. - HTTPS, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 protocols. - WebSocket upgraded based on HTTP1. - IPv4 and IPv6. - SSL Proxying. - HTTP/HTTPS secondary proxy. - VPN mode and proxy mode. - Search and filter. - Compose requests. - HTTP-Archive. - Traffic Highlighting. - Repeat and advanced repeat. - cURL. - Code snippet. #4 REST Testing Also, you can manage REST APIs with Reqable: - HTTP/1.1, HTTP2 and HTTP3 (QUIC) REST testing. - Collections. - Environments. - Creating multiple Tabs for REST testing. - Batch editing of query parameters, request headers, forms, etc. - Authorization methods such as API KEY, Basic Auth, and Bearer Token. - Custom proxy, system proxy and debugging proxy, etc. - Metrics of request at different stages. - Cookies. - cURL. - Code snippet. EULA and privacy: https://reqable.com/policy

Screenshots

Egern4 screens
Reqable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Reqable at 4.7 against Egern's 4.2. Reqable also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). Egern's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Egern sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Reqable sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reqable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Egern has 79 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Egern's written reviews are positive against 50% of Reqable's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Egern ships an update every 2 weeks, Reqable every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Egern versus Reqable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEgernReqable
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (79 ratings)4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings79 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB174 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperByte CrossingReqable Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Egern

All ratings79 ratings
Positive78.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative17.7%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative39.0%

Reqable

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Egern

One-time1
  • Unlock Pro$5.99
6 purchases

Reqable

One-time6
  • Premium (30 days)$9.90
  • Professional License (30 days)$9.90
  • Premium (1 year)$49.90
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  • Professional License (a year)$49.90
  • Premium (lifetime)$199.00
  • Professional License Lifetime$199.00

Questions

Is Egern free?
Egern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reqable free?
Reqable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Egern or Reqable?
Reqable is rated higher. Egern averages 4.2 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Reqable averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Egern or Reqable have ads?
Neither Egern nor Reqable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Egern or Reqable?
Egern ships an update every 2 weeks, and Reqable every 6 days. Most recently, Egern was updated on September 17, 2026 and Reqable on August 10, 2026.

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