General tool list
Last modified on Wed 17 Dec 2025

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten.

This article will enumerate some tools that might help you test in a particular way or become more productive in your everyday work. Don't think that you have to use all of them all the time. Tools should always help and never get in the way.

Testing stack

These are some of our dearest tools.

Some will be briefly mentioned below and others will be covered through other articles of this Handbook.

Use them according to the demands of your particular project.

Services

Appbot

The tool we use for collecting and monitoring user app reviews.

Check it out here.

Browserstack Live / App Live

We have a Browserstack license which enables you to test our mobile ("App Live") and web apps ("Live") remotely on real devices. Pretty cool, right?

Check it out here.

Google Analytics

One of the more important analytics tools we use on some projects.

Google Firebase

Another analytics tool that is so much more. Google started integrating Fabric tools into Firebase after buying the company so you will see Crashlytics there as well.

Google Dev Console & iTunes Connect

Both are dev dashboards for their respective platforms.

See what they are all about in this blog post by Vanja.

If you need access, talk to your team lead.

Chrome tools and extensions

Bug Magnet

Bug Magnet is a Google Chrome extension.

Just right-click on any editable item on the page and insert lorems, names, numbers, currencies, payment cards, etc. Check boundaries and edge cases for exploratory testing.

Chrome Dev Tools

The best thing since sliced bread. Read a short tutorial in our own Handbook.

You can use it to catch errors, measure response times, inspect elements, simulate a mobile device, and much more.

Screencastify

An extension for easily creating tab screencasts in Google Chrome.

Android and iOS tools

Android File Transfer

Used for transferring files between an Android phone and a macOS system. Get it here.

Android Debug Bridge (adb)

Used for communicating with your Android device via the terminal.

Google Authenticator

For keeping your 2FA credentials.

Instruments (iOS)

Tools for inspecting the performance of your app (and much more). Requires XCode.

Inware and Introspect (Android)

Find all information about your Android device.

Logcat and pidcat (Android)

Both are used for examining Android's device log. Pidcat is just a fancier logcat developed by Saint Jake Wharton.

In order to use it, you will have to install the Android SDK.

You can get pidcat here. Find more info on using pidcat in our own Handbook.

Use pidcat on debug builds in order to get fetch stack traces and network traffic, among other things.

Scrcpy

Use scrcpy for easy Android screencasting.

Tunnelbear or UrbanVPN

For connecting to VPNs in various countries. Our account password for Tunnelbear is in 1password. UrbanVPN is free so feel free to sign up (follow this link for more info about this awesome VPN).

Other tools

1Password

A password manager where we keep credentials for all shared accounts.

AirDroid

Manage your Android phone/tablet from a web browser without using a cable here.

Bash

Command language and shell. See this dev.to tutorial.

Dr. Link Check is a tool that finds links in HTML documents and CSS files. For finding broken and malicious links.

Canva

Designing photo/video/presentation editor.

Charles

A proxy app used for examining network traffic between your device and a server by staging a man-in-the-middle attack.

Proxyman

It's like Charles, but a bit more fancy.

Clipy

For accessing your clipboard history.

Diffchecker

Compare text to find the difference between two text files here.

File examples

Different file samples (music, videos, pdfs, images,...) here.

IDEs and Text editors

JSONLint

Validator and reformatter for JSON here.

Pexel

Free stock photos and videos here.

Pixlr

Online photoshop.

ResponsivelyApp

For parallel testing on several physical devices.

Send Anywhere

For sending files between mobile and desktop devices.

iScreen Shooter

For taking screenshots / screen recordings.

Youtube videos

Download different YT videos or playlists by using YT-DLP tool.

This can come in handy when you need to quickly get videos with e.g. specific size, lenght or a format.

Testing quadrant

For more on tools and testing and to not make this whole article just another dead list, read up on agile testing quadrants.

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