Best Debugging Tools for Startups

Bugfender

Beenario

Remote logger, crash reporter and in-app user feedback Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Bugfender collects everything happening in the application, even if it doesn’t crash, in order to reproduce and resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support. Bugfender respects your user's privacy, is battery and network efficient and keeps logging even if the device is offline. Track and destroy bugs before users even notice. Bugfender logs all bugs on all devices and sends the results in seconds - enabling you to find and fix bugs before your users even get an error message. Achieve 5-Star Ratings. Bugfender doesn’t just log bugs and crashes. It logs all the information you’ll ever need so you can build a clear picture of your users and earn those crucial five-star ratings. Deliver world-class customer service. Our logging tool enables you to target individual users and provide personalized customer support.

1 Rating

Starting Price: €29 per month

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Scout Monitoring

Scout Monitoring is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that finds what you can't see in charts. Scout APM is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing logic that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout APM helps you spend less time debugging and more time building a great product. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance problems – memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and more – with an agent that instruments the dependencies you need at a fraction of the overhead. Scout APM is built for developers, by developers, and monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Elixir applications.

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Android Studio

Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device. Create complex layouts with ConstraintLayout by adding constraints from each view to other views and guidelines. Then preview your layout on any screen size by selecting one of various device configurations or by simply resizing the preview window. Find opportunities to reduce your Android app size by inspecting the contents of your app APK file, even if it wasn't built with Android Studio. Inspect the manifest file, resources, and DEX files. Compare two APKs to see how your app size changed between app versions. Install and run your apps faster than with a physical device and simulate different configurations and features, including ARCore, Google's platform for building augmented reality experiences. Write better code, work faster, and be more productive with an intelligent code editor that provides code completion for Kotlin, Java, and C/C++ languages.

8 Ratings

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Xcode

Apple

Introducing Xcode 12. With an all-new design that looks great on macOS Big Sur, Xcode 12 has customizable font sizes for the navigator, streamlined code completion, and new document tabs. Xcode 12 builds Universal apps by default to support Mac with Apple Silicon, often without changing a single line of code. Designed for macOS Big Sur. Xcode 12 looks great on macOS Big Sur, with a navigator sidebar that goes to the top of the window and clear new toolbar buttons. The navigator defaults to a larger font that’s easier to read, while giving you multiple size choices. New document tabs make it easy to create a working set of files within your workspace. Document tabs. The new tab model lets you open a new tab with a double-click, or track the selected file as you click around the navigator. You can re-arrange the document tabs to create a working set of files for your current task, and configure how content is shown within each tab.

5 Ratings

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Fiddler

Progress Software

Capture all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet with Telerik Fiddler HTTP(S) proxy. Inspect traffic, set breakpoints, and fiddle with requests & responses. Fiddler Everywhere is a web debugging proxy for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Capture, inspect, monitor all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet, mock requests, and diagnose network issues. Fiddler Everywhere can be used for any browser, application, process. Debug traffic from macOS, Windows, or Linux systems and iOS or Android mobile devices. Ensure the proper cookies, headers, and cache directives are transferred between the client and server. Supports any framework, including .NET, Java, Ruby, etc. Mock or modify requests and responses on any website. It’s a quick and easy way to change the request and responses to test websites without changing code. Use Fiddler Everywhere to log all HTTP/S traffic between your computer and the Internet.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $12 per user per month

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Bugsnag

Bugsnag monitors application stability so you can make data-driven decisions on whether you should be building new features, or fixing bugs. ‍ We are a full stack stability monitoring solution with best-in-class functionality for mobile applications. Rich, end-to-end diagnostics to help you reproduce every error. A simple and thoughtful user experience for all your apps in one dashboard. The definitive metric for app health — the common language for product and engineering teams. Not all bugs are worth fixing. Focus on the ones that matter to your business. Extensible libraries with opinionated defaults and countless customization options. Subject matter experts who care deeply about error reduction and the health of your apps.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $59 per month

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HTTP Toolkit

Skim through traffic with highlighting by content type, status & source, or use powerful filtering tools to precisely match the messages that matter to you. Examine the URL, status, headers & body of each request or response, with inline explanations & docs from MDN. Dig into message bodies with highlighting & auto formatting for JSON, HTML, JS, hex and others, all using the power of Monaco, the editor from Visual Studio Code. Precisely match requests, jump to them when they appear, and edit anything: the target URL, method, headers or body. Manually respond directly to requests as they arrive, or pass them upstream, and pause & edit the real response on the way back. Step through HTTP traffic request by request, or manually mock endpoints and errors. Create rules to match requests and respond with your own content, to quickly prototype against new endpoints or services.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Ambassador

Ambassador Labs

Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience

1 Rating

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PlatformIO

Professional collaborative platform for embedded development. PlatformIO is a next-generation, collaborative platform for embedded development that enables customers to save resources and time by vastly reducing the expenses and labor associated with creating and maintaining product software. We believe the embedded systems industry desperately needs reinvention. Not only are the IDEs and tools built with technology from the 1990s, but they involve many complex requirements and platform-dependent configurations that turn away talented developers from becoming embedded engineers. The most loved IDE solution for Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A user-friendly and extensible integrated development environment with a set of professional development instruments, providing modern and powerful features to speed up yet simplify the creation and delivery of embedded products. PlatformIO is written in pure Python and doesn't depend on any additional libraries/tools from an operation system.

1 Rating

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Genymotion

Genymobile

Empower your Android teams with virtual devices that truly scale. With all testing frameworks based on ADB, Appium, Espresso, Robotium, etc. Works with popular continuous integration solutions CircleCI, Bitrise, Terraform, etc. No nested virtualization to speed up your tests and operations with or without a dedicated GPU. Instant access to unlimited virtual devices that can be run simultaneously for test sharding or parallel testing. Available from Android 4.4 to latest Android versions, in all screen sizes and on a large variety of platforms including our own but also AWS, Google, Azure and Alibaba. Control over your infrastructure with no maintenance needs. Best-in-class security and reliability for enterprise needs. Infinite scalability with cloud providers datacenters. Dedicated GPUs are available on selected devices. Emulate 3000+ virtual Android device configurations (Android versions, screen size, hardware capacities, etc.)

1 Rating

Starting Price: $0.05 per minute

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{CodeWhizz}

The AI-Powered Python and JavaScript Generator/Debugger/Tutor. Become a pro-coder in seconds. Generate pro-level code in an instant. Type what you need, run the program, and boom! The Whizzy AI model will compute your request and generate your code in an editable code window, so you can touch it up and personalize it however you need. Don't hassle with clunky and slow IDE's, the integrated CodeEngine will run your Python code and generate outputs, and plots, seamlessly. The ScriptRepo allows you to save your favorite creations with ease. We'll keep them secure so your can come back to them anytime. Limited availability. Request access now and secure your own personalized AI-Powered Python Code generation tool.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $37.50 per month

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Rollbar

Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.

Starting Price: $19.00/month

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Telepresence

Ambassador Labs

Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.

Starting Price: Free

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Solidity Debugger Pro

Free & Open source. Cross-platform. Supports all EVM blockchains. Solidity Debugger Pro (sdbg) is a VS Code extension that adds feature-rich debugging capabilities for Solidity projects. It supports all EVM-compatible blockchains, allowing developers to easily debug smart contracts locally or on a forked node. Sdbg brings native debugging support for the popular Hardhat framework.

Starting Price: Free

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Errsole

1) Minimal Setup: Just include the Errsole package in your code—no need for dedicated servers, software installations, or complicated configurations. 2) Logger++: Errsole automatically collects all logs from the Node.js console. Additionally, it provides advanced logging functions that support multiple log levels and the ability to attach metadata to logs. 3) Log Viewer: View, filter, and search through your logs using the built-in Web Dashboard. Secure authentication and team management features ensure that only you and your team can access the logs. 4) Critical Error Notifications: Get immediate notifications when your app crashes or encounters critical errors. The notification includes the error message, the app name, the environment, the server name, and a direct link to view the error in your logs.

Starting Price: 0

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Airbrake

Capture and track application exceptions in minutes with Airbrake, an error monitoring and detection solution. Fast and effective, Airbrake enables users to quickly identify, asses and resolve errors such as parameters, stacktraces, affected users, and more. Airbrake features detailed dashboards that tracks and manages errors with ease. Airbrake is also accessible via mobile devices with its mobile optimized web application.

Starting Price: $49.00/month

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EasyQA

ThinkMobiles

In order to start catch crashes which can appear in you Android or iOS applications, you need to integrate EasyQA Software Development Kit with the code of your apps. To download SDK and find full instructions on connecting it to a project, you can open the Integrations page within your project in EasyQA Test Management Tool. When you connect the SDK to your project, use the generated token and initialize it in the application class of your project. After that you can create your app’s build and upload it in Test Objects within your project in EasyQA and your application starts to send crashes to the service. After you have added our EasyQA SDK into your project and uploaded it to Test Objects within your project in EasyQA, you can track your app’s crashes on our website. You just need to download the app to any Android or iOS device and start testing. When there is a crash, reboot the app and press Upload button.

Starting Price: $10 per user per month

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RubyMotion

Scratchwork Development LLC

RubyMotion lets you quickly develop cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android and OS X, all using your favorite editor and the awesome Ruby language you know and love. RubyMotion features a statically-compiled version of the Ruby language designed for native mobile platforms, as well as a command-line based extensible toolchain that will let you easily customize your development workflow just the way you like it. Thanks to RubyMotion, your Ruby developers can write iOS and Android apps, today. Ruby makes programmers happy and productive, and by sharing the same language across platforms you get to reuse code, save time, and ship faster.

Starting Price: Free

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Thundra

Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and monitor modern microservices on the cloud. By offering everything from automated instrumentation to cloud debugging and test optimization in a single platform, Thundra eliminates the need for multiple tools for pre-production and production environments

Starting Price: $90 per month

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Honeycomb

Honeycomb.io

Log management. Upgraded. With Honeycomb. Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management. With rapid query, find unknown unknowns across system logs, metrics & traces with interactive charts for the deepest view against raw, high cardinality data. Configure Service Level Objective (SLOs) on what users care about so you cut-down noisy alerts and prioritize the work. Reduce on-call toil, ship code faster and keep customers happy. Pinpoint the cause. Optimize your code. See your prod in hi-res. Our SLOs tell you when your customers are having a bad experience so that you can immediately debug why those issues are happening, all within the same interface. Use our Query Builder to easily slice and dice your data to visualize behavioral patterns for individual users and services (grouped by any dimensions).

Starting Price: $70 per month

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ReSharper

JetBrains

The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers. On-the-fly code quality analysis is available in C#, VB.NET, XAML, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. You'll know right away if your code needs to be improved. Not only does ReSharper warn you when there's a problem in your code but it provides hundreds of quick-fixes to solve problems automatically. In almost every case, you can select the best quick-fix from a variety of options. Automated solution-wide code refactorings help you safely change your code base. Whether you need to revitalize legacy code or put your project structure in order, you can rely on ReSharper. You can instantly navigate and search through the whole solution. Jump to any file, type, or type member, or navigate from a specific symbol to its usages, base and derived symbols, or implementations.

Starting Price: $12.90 per user per month

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DebugBear

DebugBear keeps track of your site speed and Core Web Vitals. Monitor the performance of your website and benchmark against the competition. Get alerted in Slack or by email when there's a problem. DebugBear is built on top of Google's Lighthouse tool, but provides additional in-depth debug data for developers. It also keeps track of the real-user Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses for their search rankings.

Starting Price: $96 per year

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Disbug

Dev teams use Disbug chrome extension to capture bugs with screen recording, screenshots, console logs, network logs, user events and upload them to the project management tool, with a single click! Explain and narrate the problem visually. Let developers see exactly what happened when it went wrong. One-click capture of the entire context for bug reports. Instantly know what went wrong from every angle by capturing the complete session. Get consolidated technical logs directly in your favorite tools and with a link to see the detailed logs. Centralize everything in your issue trackers. Seamless integration with the tools of your choice. Automatically create tickets in the pre-configured issue tracker when you report the bug. Expedites the debugging process. Gives you more clarity and makes development easy. Cut down your bug reporting time by 60%. Streamline the work of QA testers, developers & project managers at costs less than a cup of coffee!

Starting Price: $33 per month

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SmartBear AQTime Pro

SmartBear

Debugging should be simple. AQTime Pro synthesizes complex memory and performance information into digestible, actionable insights so you can quickly find bugs and their root cause. Finding and squashing highly differentiated bugs is tedious and complicated, but AQTime Pro makes it easy. With over a dozen profilers, you can find memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, code coverage gaps and more in just a few clicks. AQTime Pro enables you to squash all bugs with one tool and get back to making high quality code. Don’t let code profilers box you in with a single codebase or framework and prevent you from finding performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, code coverage gaps unique to your project. AQTime Pro is the one tool to use across multiple codebases and frameworks in a project. It has broad language support for C/C++, Delphi, .NET, Java and more.

Starting Price: $719 one-time payment

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Kaption

Kaption.co

Kaption is the leading AI-first analytics and feedback tool for digital marketers. Get the insights you need to optimize your digital experience and move business forward. Eliminate guess work, know why it happens, and iterate a lot faster. Often the best way to persuade is to first see things through your customers eyes. Do you know how they are using your website? With Kaption you can visualize your user's journey and any bumps along the way. Excellence comes from good information. Without data you are either lucky, or wrong. Focus your efforts with conversion and monitoring tools. Free heatmap analytics to view your user engagement with each element on your site and how it affects their behavior. See where users get stuck, increase conversion rates, and debug your product faster with smart metadata.

Starting Price: $25 per month

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Shake

Reports arrive to you instantly, automatically supplemented with a ton of useful data so you can fix them 50X faster. Whenever users notice a bug, they just shake their phone to report it, without ever leaving your app. When they shake their device, Shake opens up and allows them to send you feedback without ever leaving your app. Report yourself any info from the user’s device you want. Use .setMetadata() to easily adjust the data to your debugging requirements. See the user’s taps around your app, .log() custom events and see all their network traffic prior to reporting the bug to you. On the web Dashboard you can, for example, effortlessly find only bugs reported from iPad Airs that were in landscape mode and offline. Get bug notifications immediately in your team chat. Or, have tasks created directly in your issue tracker of choice. Shake was built to play nicely with the tools your team already uses.

Starting Price: $50 per month

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Spark Inspector

With a three-dimensional view of your app's interface and the ability to change view properties at runtime, Spark can help you craft the best apps on earth. Wiring your app together with notifications? Spark's notification monitor shows you each NSNotification as it's sent, complete with a stack trace, a list of recipients and invoked methods, and more. Understand app structure at a glance and debug smarter. Connect your app to the Spark Inspector, and you'll see your app's interface front and center. As you interact with your app, the inspector updates in real-time! We monitor every change to your app's view hierarchy so you can always see what's going on. The view of your app you see in Spark isn't just beautiful, it's completely editable. You can modify almost every property of your views, from their class-level attributes to their CALayer transforms. When you make a modification, Spark invokes a method call within your app to directly modify that property.

Starting Price: $49.99 one-time payment

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Squish

Qt Group

Squish is the tool of choice for several thousand companies worldwide to automate the functional regression tests and system tests of their graphical user interface (GUIs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs). The Squish GUI testing tool, a 100% cross-platform tool, features. Automated cross-browser GUI testing for Web and HTML5 applications on desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. Automated GUI Testing for native macOS applications including support for embedded Webkit content.

Starting Price: €82.50 per user per month

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Xdebug

Xdebug is an extension for PHP, and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience. A way to step through your code in your IDE or editor while the script is executing. An improved var_dump() function, stack traces for notices, warnings, errors, and exceptions to highlight the code path to the error. Writes every function call, with arguments and invocation location to disk. Optionally also includes every variable assignment and return value for each function. Allows you, with the help of visualization tools, to analyze the performance of your PHP application and find bottlenecks. Shows which parts of your code base are executed when running unit tests with PHPUnit. Installing Xdebug with a package manager is often the fastest way. You can substitute the PHP version with the one that matches the PHP version that you are running. You can install Xdebug through PECL on Linux & macOS with Homebrew.

Starting Price: Free

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Jam

If you’ve taken a screenshot or screen recording, you already know how to Jam. Jam auto-magically creates bug reports with all the info engineers need. Jam creates better bug reports in whatever tool you use. Share links to your bug reports or send them directly to your favorite issue tracker. Your teammates benefit whether they’ve signed up or not. Jam captures everything an engineer needs to debug. We've cut out the need for all those follow-up calls to share more context. Everything they need is right there. Perfect bug reports, every time. No more back and forth. Integrates tightly with your favorite issue trackers & tools. As easy as taking a screenshot. Trusted by thousands of teams at companies. Report bugs in seconds, without disrupting your workflow. Jam currently supports developers during the code review and testing cycles by capturing bug diagnostic data and instantly replaying the bug to seamlessly identify what needs to be fixed.

Starting Price: $10 per month

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Compare the Top Debugging Tools for Startups as of April 2025

What are Debugging Tools for Startups?

Bugfender

Scout Monitoring

Android Studio

Xcode

Fiddler

Bugsnag

HTTP Toolkit

Ambassador

PlatformIO

Genymotion

{CodeWhizz}

Rollbar

Telepresence

Solidity Debugger Pro

Errsole

Airbrake

EasyQA

RubyMotion

Thundra

Honeycomb

ReSharper

DebugBear

Disbug

SmartBear AQTime Pro

Kaption

Shake

Spark Inspector

Squish

Xdebug

Jam

Best Debugging Tools for Startups

Compare the Top Debugging Tools for Startups as of April 2025

What are Debugging Tools for Startups?

Bugfender

Scout Monitoring

Android Studio

Xcode

Fiddler

Bugsnag

HTTP Toolkit

Ambassador

PlatformIO

Genymotion

{CodeWhizz}

Rollbar

Telepresence

Solidity Debugger Pro

Errsole

Airbrake

EasyQA

RubyMotion

Thundra

Honeycomb

ReSharper

DebugBear

Disbug

SmartBear AQTime Pro

Kaption

Shake

Spark Inspector

Squish

Xdebug

Jam

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