Slowy Alternatives

Slowy is described as 'OSX app which simulates custom connection's conditions and limits the network traffic. It is created for web developers that work on a local server, to test a website with a real-world connection' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Slowy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox apps. The best Slowy alternative is Google Chrome Developer Tools, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Slowy are Charles, Firefox Developer Tools, Web Developer and NetworkMiner.

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  1. Google Chrome Developer Tools icon

    Google Chrome Developer Tools

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    The Google Chrome Developer Tools provide an integrated environment for debugging, optimizing, and understanding a web application, or website, running in Google Chrome. The developer tools are developed partly through the WebKit open source project, where the tools are called...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
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    • Google Chrome Developer Tools is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Slowy.

    • Google Chrome Developer Tools is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Slowy.

    • Google Chrome Developer Tools is Free and Open SourceSlowy is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Charles icon

    Charles

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    Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

    28 Charles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Charles is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Slowy.

    • Charles is the most popular commercial alternative to Slowy.

    • Charles is Paid and ProprietarySlowy is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Web Developer icon

    Web Developer

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    The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, macOS and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Opera
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  6. NetworkMiner icon

    NetworkMiner

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    NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can parse PCAP files and regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files with HTTP, FTP, SMB, SMB2, TFTP and several other protocols.

    37 NetworkMiner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    Files extracted from a PCAP
     
  7. HttpFox icon

    HttpFox

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    HttpFox monitors and analyzes all incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic between the browser and the web servers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
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  9. Weer icon

    Weer

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    A HTTP protocol debugger with Chrome DevTools frontend interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. HttpWatch icon

    HttpWatch

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    HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with IE and Firefox to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window. It's available as a free edition and a PRO version that cost money and has additional features.

    22 HttpWatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Firefox
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  11. Surge for Mac icon

    Surge for Mac

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    Working quietly on the Menubar, Surge is a high-performance HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy server. It is capable of intercepting and logging the summary of HTTP traffic, and meanwhile transmitting the traffic to other proxy servers according to the flexible rule system.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  12. HTTPScoop icon

    HTTPScoop

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    HTTP Scoop is a Mac network sniffer that displays requests to websites along with the response, and makes it fairly easy to see what's going on.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main Window
     
  13. ipfwThrottleBody icon

    ipfwThrottleBody

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    What is ipfwThrottleBody? (formerly ipfwSingleThrottle) ipfwThrottleBody is a Mac OS X AppleScript written to allow you to limit or throttle network bandwidth on your network interface (whether it be WAN or LAN). This program utilizes the ipfw shell command already implemented wi.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Define and limit your KB/s value.
     
  14. Uthrottle icon

    Uthrottle

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    Uthrottle is a tool which simulates custom connection’s conditions and limits the network traffic to a specified speed on network interfaces. In complex service oriented application stacks, some bugs only manifest themselves on congested or slow

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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