Alternatives to Request Catcher
A web tool that gives you a subdomain and shows every HTTP request sent to it live. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Request Catcher
A web tool that gives you a subdomain and shows every HTTP request sent to it live.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Request Catcher.
Webhook.site
A web service that gives you a unique URL and email address to inspect incoming requests.
Webhook.site also captures emails and DNS lookups and adds workflows and an API, but free URLs expire and accept a limited number of requests.
Beeceptor
A web service for creating mock API servers and inspecting incoming webhook requests in real time.
Beeceptor adds mock responses, OpenAPI imports and dynamic replies to live request inspection, with advanced features behind paid plans.
Hookdeck Console
A free web tool for receiving, inspecting, replaying and saving webhook and HTTP request events.
Hookdeck Console is free and adds replay and saving of received events, while payloads still pass through a third party.
WebHook Tester
A self-hosted tool for testing and debugging webhooks and HTTP requests on randomly generated URLs.
WebHook Tester runs on your own server so traffic stays private, with customisable response codes, but you must host and maintain it.
Mockbin
A free web tool that creates mock API endpoints with fixed responses and logs requests to them.
Mockbin is open source with no account and adds custom mock responses per bin, but losing browser storage loses the list of bins.
TypedWebhook.tools
A webhook testing tool that logs requests and generates TypeScript types and schemas from payloads.
TypedWebhook.tools logs requests on a fresh URL and generates TypeScript types and JSON Schema from payloads, useful for typed webhook handlers.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Request Catcher as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
PutsReq
A web tool that records incoming HTTP requests and returns fake responses you define in JavaScript.
Request Catcher shows requests to a chosen subdomain live in the browser, but it only records requests and cannot return scripted responses like PutsReq.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
smee.io
A free webhook payload delivery service that forwards events to an application running on localhost.
ngrok
A tunnelling agent and gateway that exposes a local app to the internet with request inspection.
Hookdeck
A hosted webhook gateway that receives, queues, filters and routes webhooks and external events.
Pinggy
A tunneling service that gives localhost a public URL over SSH, with a web debugger for traffic.
Mockoon
A desktop app and CLI for designing and running mock REST APIs locally without an account.
