# square/PonyDebugger

Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools

Repository: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ponydebugger
Language: Objective-C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-03-18T22:52:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5125, "days_push": 1264, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5853, forks 585 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:31.676725+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, developer-tools, http-client, proxy
- domain: developer-tools, mobile-development
- platform: python
- tags: remote-debugging, chrome-devtools, core-data, objective-c, network-debugging, ios-debugging, debugging, ios, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- square/PonyDebugger (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.676725+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:51:52.991302+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.676725+00:00, sha 0f70b09d025c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.