Open Source Swift Logging Software

There is always this friction when it comes to debugging native apps: you can’t inspect anything that happens behind the scenes unless you use special tools, not even network requests. That’s not the case on the web with tools like Safari Web Inspector. I wanted to bring something similar to native apps. What is Pulse? It’s a persistent logger with a network inspector, but not just a tool. It’s also a framework. PulseCore.framework (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS) provides a logger itself and a network proxy for automatically capturing network requests. PulseUI.framework (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS) containing all the UI components you’ll see on the screenshots. Document-based Pulse apps (iOS, macOS) to view logs shared from other devices. As a developer, you integrate the frameworks into your app and configure them to capture logs and network traffic. You then add a way to display a Pulse console to view logs right on the device.