You have to go start your tunnel manually every time, restart it if it gets interrupted, and close it when you're done with it. I docked a couple points for Ease of Use for two reasons: It's just a standalone app that only needs to be open when you're actually using it. No need to restart after installing, and unlike the other two, it doesn't have a process that runs in the background when you're not using it.

If you need to set up different rules for different networks, this is indispensable.

Prox圜ap will save and load rules, but not in a convenient way, and MacProxy doesn't have rule sets at all. Proxifier lets you save and easily switch between sets of rules. You could just create multiple rules in the other apps, but I prefer having them grouped together. As an example, in order to enable iCloud at work, I have to redirect *., *., and *. through the proxy. It's the only one that lets you specify multiple hostnames in a single rule. Also tried MacProxy and Prox圜ap, each of which has its strengths, but I ended up settling on Proxifier because of the following features: I've been using this on the trial for a couple weeks now. Why can't it give you easy ways of testing/validating proxy configurations? Why can't the 'traffic' be broken out on a per-proxy basis? It would be great if Proxifier would actually evolve, for $40 I would expect more polishing. It doesn't support UDP at all, so if you are trying to get something like Google Hangouts to work you can't do it with Proxifier alone.I had to block the UDP connections using Little Snitch so that Hangouts would fail back to TCP and then Proxifer would actually manage it. If Proxifier was at least reliable I could overlook all of the other flaws. Prior to MacOS Sierra I could leave Proxifier running until my next system reboot, and uptimes were only interrupted by OS updates that required reboots. Randomly it will have very high CPU utilization and stop responding, requiring a force quit and restarting the app until it happens again in 5 minutes or several hours. Proxifier is the standard that everyone uses in my workplace, and it has been OK until Sierra came out and it is now the least reliable apps I use. On Windows this is successfully managed by proxy auto-discovery and config files, however Apple hasn't ever actually implemented proxy support completely. Some are for 'public', some are for different internal sites. I work in an environment that requires proxy servers to access almost everything, however it isn't just a simple 'direct for this, this proxy for that'.we have 3 or 4 different proxy servers based on access.

5-star for existing and working some of the time. Unreliable, won't manage UDP connections, ugly, no CLI support, no automation, config file is hideously formatted, very poor documentation.

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