WireLens for iPhone and iPad
The whole proxy,
in your pocket.
Capture, decrypt and debug every app on your iPhone or iPad, on the device itself. No computer, no cables, no server in the middle.
iOS 17 or later, iPhone and iPad · Free to capture and inspect
How it works
On the device, and only on the device.
iOS does not let one app send other apps through a proxy. WireLens uses the one mechanism it does allow, and keeps all of it on your phone.
A VPN that never leaves the phone
WireLens uses iOS's packet tunnel to see every app's traffic, then connects to the real servers from the phone itself. There is no server of ours in the path.
A certificate made on your phone
Setup walks you through installing it and turning on full trust, then notices by itself when you have and starts decrypting.
Decrypt what you choose
Long-press a host to decrypt it. Apps you are not debugging keep working, and pinned apps are passed through untouched.
On your phone
Not a viewer. The whole toolkit.
The iPhone app has the capture engine and the debugging tools, not just a list of requests to look at.
Traffic, your way
Domains or requests, search, and chips for errors, decrypted flows, methods and status classes.
A real inspector
JSON trees, images, hex and form tables, with tokens and cookies decoded in place.
WebSocket frames
Every message in both directions, live, with payloads that open like bodies.
Breakpoints
Pause a request or a response, edit it on the phone, then execute or abort it.
Map Local and Map Remote
Answer from local content, or send a request to staging, without a rebuild.
Rewrite
Change headers, query, method, status and bodies on matching traffic.
Scripting
onRequest and onResponse JavaScript, with the same API as on the Mac.
DNS Spoof
Point a hostname at a new server for every app on the device.
Block List
See how your app behaves when a service is unreachable.
Compose
Build a request, import a cURL, or edit and resend one you captured.
Block QUIC
Push HTTP/3 apps back onto TCP, where WireLens can decrypt them.
Send it to your Mac
Export a session package and AirDrop it to WireLens for Mac, bodies and all.
What iOS decides
- Pinned apps refuse any debugging proxy. WireLens passes them through, so they keep working while you debug your own.
- Memory is limited for network extensions, so very large bodies are kept truncated and marked that way.
- One VPN at a time. Starting capture pauses another VPN, and the other way round.
Better with a Mac
Point the iPhone's Wi-Fi proxy at WireLens for Mac to read it on a big screen with every Mac tool, or AirDrop a session package from the phone and open it there. The iPhone app is complete on its own; the Mac is there when you want it.
Capture an iPhone from the MacPro on iPhone and iPad is an in-app purchase, monthly, yearly or once. Pricing
Look inside your apps.
Install WireLens, trust its certificate once, and see every request your iPhone makes.
Buying for a team? See team pricing or write to finance@wirelens.app.