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Charles vs Dr.Explain

A side-by-side look at Charles and Dr.Explain. 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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Dr.Explain

Dr.Explain

Development

Dr.Explain is a documentation generation software that automatically generates technical documentation from source code. It supports multiple programming languages and can generate docs in various formats like HTML, PDF, DOC and more.

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