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Web development tools for iOS.
Inspect is a web inspector for iOS that provides desktop-class developer tools, right in the app. No need for remote debugging, connecting to a desktop, proxies, or remote systems.
Included are:
- JavaScript console.
- HTML element inspection and editing (with live preview).
- CSS inspection and editing (with live preview).
- View element details: CSS rules, JavaScript properties, dimension statistics, and more.
- Open files and folders from other apps (like Working Copy), or from iCloud to test locally.
- Network panel, displaying page headers and XHR requests.
- Responsive design tools: View your site with a variety of mobile and desktop sizes and orientations, including support for custom sizes and user agents.
- Cookies, local storage, and session storage inspector and editor.
- Resource graph.
- View raw page source.
- Control over browser operation: disable JavaScript, cache, and clear cache and cookies to test various operations and states.
- Save a screenshot of your site, including the ability to save the full page.
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What is Inspect Browser?
Inspect Browser is a digital product or tool described as: Parallax Dynamics Inc.
Where did Inspect Browser originate?
Data for Inspect Browser was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Inspect Browser publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Inspect Browser within our tracked developer communities was recorded on February 9, 2017.
How popular is Inspect Browser?
Inspect Browser has achieved measurable traction, logging over 123 reviews and facilitating 4 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Inspect Browser?
Based on metadata extraction, Inspect Browser is categorized under topics such as: Developer Tools, Productivity.
What are some commercial alternatives to Inspect Browser?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as Rescript, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Inspect Browser?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Web development tools for iOS.
Inspect is a web inspector for iOS that provides desktop-class developer tools, right in the app. No need for remote debugging, connecting to a desktop, proxies, or ..."
Community Voice & Feedback
Nothing works. The inspector is useless and only works on 1/10 page loads.
Just want to thank you for creating this indispensable tool. The iPad is actually useful for web dev thanks to this app. It would be great if you were allowed to use Blink as well instead of just web-kit, but that’s Apple’s fault. Anyway, amazing job on this app, I know it’s a labor of love.
This is exactly what I was looking for! I tried several other apps and they all had major shortcomings. This is a full-featured set of devtools that works perfectly with my workflow. If you're curious, here's my setup: ipad air 5g, blink shell app, tailscale SSH into my desktop computer, zellij multiplexer, neovim, and a good bluetooth keyboard. I edit my code in neovim and tab over to this inspect browser app to see the changes. I love that I can see the JS console to see any errors and easily run JS to inspect my app. The only major thing this app seems to be missing is a JS debugger, but that's a lot to ask for in a mobile app. One thing I'd like to see is the option to hide the iOS status bar at the top of the screen and the toolbar on the left-hand side to get a bit more screen real estate.
It seems the console doesn’t support entering multiple lines. To enter a function, the entire content needs to be entered in a single line, which is a bit inconvenient. Hope this can be improved in later versions.
This has gotten me out of soooooo many jams. I really appreciate it!
Fantastic app. Makes it so much easier to know when stuff is and isn’t working!
Fantastic app. Makes it so much easier to know when stuff is and isn’t working!
I don’t know what’s going on but the address bar keeps growing to 30% and sometimes 50% of the screen.
The inspector is not usable and is too small for iPhone use. The text doesn’t fit horizontally and when selecting elements it highlights the wrong thing. I tried landscape mode and it covers most of the screen with the address bar.
Force closed the app, but no change.
I think this app used to work right, not sure if it’s the latest update or what..
The inspector is not usable and is too small for iPhone use. The text doesn’t fit horizontally and when selecting elements it highlights the wrong thing. I tried landscape mode and it covers most of the screen with the address bar.
Force closed the app, but no change.
I think this app used to work right, not sure if it’s the latest update or what..
All good for simple websites but this browser cannot handle React state changes. Not useful for debugging React.
Wow - please don’t give up on this app. This app allows web development on iPadOS. You can easily code on the iPad with codespace, codesandbox etc, and this app is the closest desktop web inspector out there. Absolutely amazing work. Thank you.
I updated this app and it doesn’t working with iPad, please fix it quickly 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for bringing this tool to us. There’s a LOT of work that can be done on the go or on a machine like this.
I can’t wait to keep using it. Right now the only thing that I wish I could do was customize the interface more. Just random thoughts:
- Showing/hiding ANY toolbars
- Maybe a toolbar system where you could drag/drop the windows around (I do see the view switch options which are helpful)
- Option to hide the tab bar
- Small icons/UI scale
Again, I’m having so much fun in this and thank you for making a great tool.
I can’t wait to keep using it. Right now the only thing that I wish I could do was customize the interface more. Just random thoughts:
- Showing/hiding ANY toolbars
- Maybe a toolbar system where you could drag/drop the windows around (I do see the view switch options which are helpful)
- Option to hide the tab bar
- Small icons/UI scale
Again, I’m having so much fun in this and thank you for making a great tool.
Update Element button is broken
Uninstalled and reinstalled works now
Doesn’t really work on more complex sites
I find Inspect is great on iPad. On iPhone Xs it doesn’t work since when I try to paste or type in the url field the keyboard comes up and pushes the content up covering the url field. Super frustrating. If this is fixed, it’s a five star iOS app.
This is an indispensable app for web development using the iPad. There are a handful of developers who care about power users on the iPad, and the developer of Inspect Browser is one of them.
I love the developer features and how much is revealed in them. It’s very close to desktop level browser developer tools. I can’t imagine there’s a ton of money in developer focused iPadOS apps, but I hope it’s worth the time and effort of ongoing development. Losing this one would really hurt.
I have two improvement requests: 1) I wish the console pane would show errors like resources not loading, etc, which it doesn’t seem to, and 2) I would like to see file sizes in either network or resources or both. Recently I was doing image optimization and I needed to be able to see which size images the browser was pulling down and how many kb those were.
I love the developer features and how much is revealed in them. It’s very close to desktop level browser developer tools. I can’t imagine there’s a ton of money in developer focused iPadOS apps, but I hope it’s worth the time and effort of ongoing development. Losing this one would really hurt.
I have two improvement requests: 1) I wish the console pane would show errors like resources not loading, etc, which it doesn’t seem to, and 2) I would like to see file sizes in either network or resources or both. Recently I was doing image optimization and I needed to be able to see which size images the browser was pulling down and how many kb those were.
Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
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