Surge for Mac is described as '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' and is a Web Debugger in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Surge for Mac for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Surge for Mac alternative is Fiddler, which is free. Other great apps like Surge for Mac are mitmproxy, Charles, Proxyman and Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP).