Indoor Survey vs Charles Proxy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Indoor Survey
Enable Apple's Indoor Positioning for your business venues. Walk through your location and conduct surveys to gather location data. View and test this collected data directly within the application.
- Enable Apple Indoor Positioning
- Perform venue surveys
- Collect location data
- View and test data
- Business venue mapping
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Indoor Survey makes it easy for business owners to enable Apple’s Indoor Positioning in their venues. Simply walk through the venue and perform surveys using the app to collect location data. This data can be viewed and tested in the Indoor Survey app. To use Indoor Survey, sign up at register.apple.com/indoor
Charles Proxy
Capture and inspect network requests and responses directly on your iOS device. Debug networking issues without needing a computer. View detailed metadata, headers, and bodies, and even transfer sessions to a desktop for further analysis.
- Capture network requests and responses
- Inspect metadata, headers, and bodies
- SSL Proxying for plain text viewing
- Measure network performance
- Block requests to specific hosts
- DNS spoofing
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Charles Proxy for iOS lets you capture, inspect and modify network requests and responses on your iOS device. You can view metadata, headers and bodies in the app, so you can finally debug your app’s networking issues without a computer. Charles Proxy for iOS is an app from the creator of Charles Proxy for desktop. HOW IT WORKS Turn Charles on when you want to start capturing. Charles captures your network requests and responses in the background while you test your app or website. Return to Charles to inspect the requests and responses. If you also have Charles on your desktop, you can transfer recorded sessions to your desktop to explore them on the big screen. Charles creates a local VPN on your device. All of your network traffic passes through Charles on your device, and then out to the internet as usual over either WiFi or Mobile / Cellular data. There is no remote server involved, and your data always remains private to you. FEATURES * SSL Proxying to view SSL requests in plain text * View and share request and responses bodies * Syntax highlighting for text request and response bodies * Measure network performance over WiFi or Mobile / Cellular networks * Block requests to nominated hosts * DNS spoofing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Indoor Survey at Free against Charles Proxy's $8.99. Indoor Survey also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Charles Proxy's advantage is review sentiment (52% vs 17%) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Indoor Survey is free to download; Charles Proxy costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Charles Proxy holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 189 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Indoor Survey's written reviews are positive against 52% of Charles Proxy's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Indoor Survey | Charles Proxy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (79 ratings) | 4.0 (189 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.5% of reviews | 51.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 | 189 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | XK72 Limited |
Customer experience
Indoor Survey
Charles Proxy
Bugs and requests
Indoor Survey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Charles Proxy
Reported bugs
4 issues- Doesn't work with latest iOS versions
- Fails to export sessions frequently
- Incompatible with apps using VPN
- Large JSON bodies not displayed properly
Requested features
5 requests- 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
In-app purchases
Indoor Survey
No in-app purchases
Charles Proxy
No in-app purchases
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