Inspect Browser

I sit at work all day debugging on 3 large screen monitors. I chuckled a bit when I first saw this app but seriously, WOW! The mere fact that I can’t inspect a nodes box model, change some css properties, sort/analyze network requests, view/edit local/session storage is pretty ridiculous for a phone app. These guys did a phenomenal job incorporating webkits’ debugging capability’s into a small screen. Although I laugh at the idea of actually using this on my iPhone, I could see it being actually useful for those on an iPad. That being said, actual developers probably don’t own iPads but rather surfaces or chrome books because Apple won’t expose runtimes or compilers on their mobile or tablet devices... hence why you can’t set breakpoints in scripts in this app. Some of the panels & windows can be a little finicky operating but considering the capabilities of this app I’d find it hard to believe anyone could do it better. A nice feature would be a json/js beautifier when viewing in sources tab. Keeping in mind that the compiler is off limits, I would think it’s definitely possible to run scripts through a static syntax highlighter for easy viewing.

Based on my first 10 minutes, color me impressed. As a front end developer who spends a great deal of time debugging in Chrome & Firefox web inspectors, I found it intuitive and useful. Was able to successfully run a simple jQuery method in the console and toggle CSS attributes exactly like in a desktop browser. Some less than intuitive behaviors I observed: unexpected pinch-to-zoom action (the whole viewport frame would shrink rather than just the page), couldn’t scroll the page in Inspect mode, and there was some Line 0 script errors w/o details. Any of these could be due to my lack of experience with the app but they seemed like they could be more obvious, if so. Regardless, I consider it worth the cost as a quick and easy way to do some debugging on iOS (I tried it on iPhone Xs, which made everything crowded, but entirely useful in a pinch.)

I’ve been doing personal web development via a remote server from my iPad (almost exclusively) for a year now. This app is a game changer for me. Specifically being able to modify and adjust CSS like in a desktop web inspector, as well as easily modifying the DOM. Sounds simple coming from desktop web development world, but I haven’t found another app that does this. I would highly suggest spreading the word so that this app can continue to get attention and polish. The other web-dev apps I used were so-so and lost a lot of attention over time, and this app is already great so I hope the developer runs with it!

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I am developing my website locally with a self signed cert. This is common practice. However the app returns "Error An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." Even after turning off the "Validate SSL Certificates" option. Oddly enough, it did allow the page to load the first time I toggled the option off, then after closing it and reopening in a new tab it will no longer allow the exception. This is a major blocker for me, I simply can't use the app without being able to develop locally over https. Also, the site is working in Safari so I know it's not an issue with my site. I would like to hear back from the developer on this. Please advise.

I travel frequently for work and sometimes I just don’t want to bring my laptop. My iPad Pro allows me to do some programming without my laptop and a large part of that is due to this app. Now the app is nowhere close to having the functionality of chrome but a large portion of that is due to the limitations of iOS. I am confident they will continue to refine this app and it was worth the $.