Help
Straightforward guides for every part of Hollowport — from your first capture to the deeper investigation tools.
Getting Started
Install Hollowport, trust the certificate, and record your first request.
Installing Hollowport
How to install Hollowport from the App Store — no account, no setup screen, straight to the Capture tab.
Installing and trusting the certificate
Step-by-step certificate install for Hollowport, why it's required, and how to fix the most common trust errors.
Your first capture
Starting a capture session in Hollowport and reading your first decrypted request.
Using Hollowport
Everything the app can do, organized by what you're trying to accomplish.
Understanding the Traffic view
How to read Hollowport's Capture tab — filtering, search, status colors, and what pinned traffic looks like.
Using the Problems view
How Hollowport groups failed requests by cause instead of leaving you to scroll a raw log.
Investigating a problem
How Hollowport correlates related failures into a single incident with a timeline, scope, and status.
Replay and editing requests
How to resend a captured request with changes, and check whether the outcome is actually consistent across repeats.
Comparing two requests
How Hollowport's Compare tool summarizes what changed between two attempts and whether that change explains the result.
Collections, variables, and assertions
How to chain requests into a repeatable workflow with variables, secrets, and automatic assertions.
Rules, Breakpoints, Mocking, and Network Chaos
Four ways to intervene in live traffic — pause it manually, automate a change, replace a response, or simulate a bad network.
GraphQL and WebSocket inspection
How Hollowport decodes GraphQL operations and lets you watch individual WebSocket frames.
Exporting: HAR, cURL, and code
How to export a capture as HAR, or generate cURL and client code from a single request.
Using Scripting
How to write JavaScript against captured traffic, use the built-in templates, and what scripts can and can't do.
Troubleshooting
Fixes for the issues people actually run into.
Something else?
Platform questions — pricing, Android, privacy, MDM devices — are answered in the FAQ. Anything else, email us directly.