7 Ngrok Alternatives & Competitors for App Tunneling, Free & Paid

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ngrok Landing Page
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ngrok

ngrok enables secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
For example, let’s say you have a web project on your machine written in Python using the Django framework. Your local server will probably run on an URL like http://localhost:8000 ― which is only accessible on your local machine. With a service like Ngrok, you can configure a public URL like https://myapp.ngrok.io in a single command line and have all the traffic from this URL redirected to your local server―also known as an app tunnel.

#Testing #Localhost Tools #Webhooks 368 social mentions
Onboardbase Landing Page
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Onboardbase

Onboardbase enables teams to collaboratively work, store, manage and share secrets like environment variables, passwords, credit cards across your team effectively and securely.
Pricing:
You can find dozens of managed or self-hosted tunneling solutions out there, but none with Onboardbase’s built-in security features and ease of use. Onboardbase will make sure your team adopts security best practices to develop reliable software thanks to the combination of its CLI to inject app secrets at runtime and its dashboard to share encrypted sensitive information. The best part? It’s free and you can get started in a minute.

#Secrets Management #Web And Mobile Application Security #Security & Privacy 5 social mentions
Localtunnel Landing Page
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Localtunnel

Expose yourself to the world
Pricing:
- Open Source
Localtunnel is a NodeJS package that allows you to easily share a web service on your local development machine without setting up a web server yourself. To start a webserver:

#Localhost Tools #Tunnel #Testing
frp Landing Page

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frp

A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

frp is a self-hosted reverse proxy server and client you can install from a simple binary executable compiled from Go, making it fast to load and run.

#Localhost Tools #Tunnel #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 12 social mentions
Loophole Cloud Landing Page
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Loophole Cloud

Instant hosting, right from your local machine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Localhost Tools #Tunnel #Hosting
Cloudflare Tunnel Landing Page

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Cloudflare Tunnel

Connect applications, servers, and other resources to Cloudflare's network via encrypted outbound tunnels. No publicly routable IPs or VMs required.

Cloudflare Tunnel is a tunneling software that lets you quickly secure and encrypt application traffic to any type of infrastructure, so you can hide your web server IP addresses, block direct attacks, and focus on development.

#Localhost Tools #Tunnel #Proxy
TailScale Landing Page
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TailScale

Private networks made easy Connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tailscale allows you to create a secure virtual private network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances using the WireGuard protocol from a binary executable.

#VPN #Security & Privacy #Cloud VPN 503 social mentions
Packetriot Landing Page
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Packetriot

Secure and Instant hosting on any network.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $5.0 / Monthly (5 Tunnels, 5 TCP Ports / Tunnels, 1TB of Bandwidth)
Opt for Packetriot if you prefer paying per tunnel rather than per user (cheaper for large teams).

#Localhost Tools #Proxy #Tunnel 9 social mentions