Alternatives to Surge
Surge: Routes all traffic on your Mac or iPhone through rules you set, proxies it, and lets you inspect and rewrite HTTP requests. Here are 4 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 3 have a free plan.
- Clor
Runs Claude Code and Codex jobs in parallel inside isolated containers, locally or on cloud runners, with memory shared across them.
Since 2018
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- littleguys
A Mac app that lets developers chat with, approve and schedule their AI coding agents as if they were messaging contacts.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Nuticast
Mac menu bar tool that lets iOS developers debug an iPhone from Xcode across separate networks via Tailscale, ZeroTier or Netbird.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Firezone
Gives staff fast, checked access to company servers and apps over WireGuard, as a replacement for an old VPN.
Free plan · Security and passwords