PacketPro vs Busymate DevTools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PacketPro
This tool allows developers to capture, inspect, and analyze network traffic, including HTTP and HTTPS requests. It offers a suite of debugging utilities to enhance productivity and provides clear visibility into network activity for faster troubleshooting.
- Capture and inspect HTTP/HTTPS traffic
- View request and response details
- Analyze headers, parameters, cookies, and timing
- Flexible filtering rules
- Developer toolbox for debugging
- HTTP request testing
- URL encode/decode
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PacketPro — Professional Packet Capture Tool PacketPro is a lightweight and powerful packet capture and debugging tool designed for developers and advanced users. It helps you inspect, analyze, and understand network requests with clarity and efficiency. • Capture and inspect HTTP & HTTPS traffic • View complete request and response details • Analyze headers, parameters, cookies, and timing • Flexible filtering rules to focus on what matters • Built-in developer toolbox for daily debugging tasks Developer Toolbox PacketPro includes a set of handy tools to improve productivity: • HTTP request testing • URL encode / decode • Base64 & hash utilities • Regex testing • Timestamp conversion Designed for Professionals • Clean and intuitive interface • No account required • No ads, no tracking • Built with performance and privacy in mind PacketPro gives you full visibility into network traffic — so you can debug faster and work smarter.
Busymate DevTools
Inspect HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly on your device. Capture requests, view headers and bodies, and decrypt specific domains without needing a desktop proxy. Ideal for developers debugging their own apps and websites.
- System-wide traffic capture
- HTTPS decryption for selected domains
- Real-time request/response feed
- Optional cloud sync for dashboard inspection
- On-device VPN tunnel
- User-controlled capture and decryption
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Busymate DevTools is a network debugging tool for developers. It captures the HTTP and HTTPS requests made on your device, so you can inspect headers, bodies, status codes, and timing while you build and debug your own apps and websites. It works like a desktop web-debugging proxy, but runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad — no Mac and no Wi-Fi proxy configuration required. WHAT IT DOES • Captures DNS and TCP traffic system-wide using Apple's NetworkExtension (a local, on-device VPN tunnel — nothing is routed through our servers). • Decrypts HTTPS only for the specific domains you add to the SSL-proxy list. Everything else stays end-to-end encrypted and is passed through untouched. • Shows every request/response pair in a real-time feed: method, URL, status, headers, query, and body. • Optionally syncs captures to your private Busymate dashboard at dash.busymate.dev so you can inspect them on a bigger screen, search, tag, and export to HAR. ADVANCED • Traffic rules — block, mock, or rewrite requests and responses that match your own rules, so you can test how your app handles errors, edge cases, and slow or missing responses. • Upstream proxy — optionally route a device's outbound traffic through an external proxy you have configured. • Deep links — open the app straight to a device or a request from a link. YOU ARE IN CONTROL • Capture never starts until you explicitly turn it on and accept the on-screen disclosure. • HTTPS is only ever decrypted for domains you choose. Add and remove them at any time. • Decryption requires installing and trusting a root certificate, used only to decrypt your own HTTPS traffic for the domains you choose — guided step-by-step inside the app. • You can stop capturing and remove the VPN profile from iOS Settings at any time. PRIVACY Busymate DevTools is built for inspecting traffic from apps and sites you own or are authorized to debug. Captured data can include sensitive values such as tokens and credentials, so only inspect domains you understand and control. Synced captures are stored under your own account and can be deleted at any time. See our privacy policy at busymate.dev/privacy. REQUIREMENTS • iOS / iPadOS 16.0 or later. • A free Busymate account (sign in with Apple or email) to pair the device and, optionally, sync captures to the dashboard. Busymate DevTools is intended for developers, QA engineers, and security testers working on their own software. It is not a tool for intercepting other people's traffic.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Busymate DevTools at none against PacketPro's 1. PacketPro's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. PacketPro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Busymate DevTools asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PacketPro against 5.0 for Busymate DevTools. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
PacketPro ships an update weekly, Busymate DevTools every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PacketPro | Busymate DevTools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 凡 刘 | Sergiu Toderascu |
Customer experience
PacketPro
Busymate DevTools
In-app purchases
PacketPro
- Pro$9.99
Busymate DevTools
No in-app purchases








