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Charles vs DiffPDF

A side-by-side look at Charles and DiffPDF. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Charles

Charles

Development

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).

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DiffPDF

DiffPDF

Office & Productivity

DiffPDF is an open source software used to visually compare two PDF files. It highlights the differences between PDFs using color coding, making it easy to see what has changed.

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