square/PonyDebugger
Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5125
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1264
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
5853 stars · 585 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset combining an iOS client library with a gateway server (ponyd) that lets developers debug native iOS apps through Chrome Developer Tools. It supports network traffic inspection, Core Data browsing, and view hierarchy debugging.
Use cases
- debug network traffic in an iOS app via Chrome DevTools
- inspect Core Data managed object contexts remotely
- debug iOS view hierarchy from a browser
- proxy and inspect https traffic from a native app
- remote logging and introspection for iOS
When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Objective-C or Swift iOS app and want browser-based remote debugging
- you need to inspect NSURLConnection/NSURLSession traffic including https
- you want Chrome DevTools-style tooling for native iOS
When to avoid
- you need actively maintained tooling - releases are sparse and the project is largely dormant
- you target modern iOS with URLSession-based stacks where newer alternatives exist
- you need Android or cross-platform remote debugging
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
monitoring developer-tools http-client proxy developer-tools mobile-development python remote-debugging chrome-devtools core-data objective-c network-debugging ios-debugging debugging ios macos web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0f70b09d025c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| square/PonyDebugger | main | 23 |
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