Surge 5 Downloads & RevenueSurge 5 · App Store
Surge 5 is #6 in Developer Tools Grossing in United States and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSurge Networks Inc.
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.1 (1k)
Version5.23.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
📈Entered the top 10🚀Now shown next to HTTP Catcher, iHTTP Tracker -Network monitor, Proxyman - Capture HTTPS +5 more✏️Added hidden keywords: domain, fibe📈Entered the top 10 in 3 charts✏️Added hidden keywords: putty📦Updated to version 5.23.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 5.22.1🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 21 events
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- 🚀Surge 5: now shown next to HTTP Catcher, iHTTP Tracker -Network monitor, Proxyman - Capture HTTPS +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- ✏️Surge 5 added hidden keywords: domain, fibewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10 in 3 chartsTop Grossing · Developer Tools · FR · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · GB · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · KR
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · DE
- ✏️Surge 5 added hidden keywords: puttywords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Surge 5 added hidden keywords: proxymanwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Developer Tools · BR · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · CA
- 📦Surge 5 updated to version 5.23.0New Features
- Added the `[IP Rewrite]` section to process packets entering Surge VIF by destination address before rule matching. Supported actions include `reflect`, `reject`, and `drop`. This can provide on-device loopback functionality for certain iOS developer toolchains.
- Added a `category` parameter to policy groups for grouped display.
- All `test-url` parameters now support HTTPS URLs. Results still measure a single HTTP round-trip latency, although TLS handshakes may increase overall testing time.
- Added a device communication takeover option for Include All mode.
- Added external resource management and other helper endpoints to the HTTP API.
- URL-based linked profiles can now be updated manually.
UI and Rules
- Updated UI layouts and details for iPhone Duo support.
- Improved the Add Rule page: domain rules can now be created from SNI-sniffed requests, and rule-specific options can be selected directly.
- Inline rulesets with the same name now merge across the main profile and modules, preserving rules from each source.
- Fixed logical rules incorrectly parsing policy names containing parentheses.
Networking and Reliability
- Improved Tailscale and WireGuard behavior when switching networks.
- Improved UDP test diagnostics for peer-to-peer Tailscale and WireGuard policies without Internet egress, reporting unsupported tests instead of waiting for a timeout.
- Removed an erroneous Ponte notification when using a Ponte policy in a policy group.
- Reverted per-domain MITM key-pair generation to address noticeable delays when intercepting many different domains concurrently.
- Fixed a scripting-engine compatibility issue.
- Improved performance and memory usage, fixed rare crashes, and resolved other minor issues.… more - 📈Surge 5 entered the top 100Top Free · Developer Tools · FR
- ✏️Surge 5 added hidden keywords: sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Surge 5 added hidden keywords: sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 100Top Free · Developer Tools · DE
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AE
- 📈Surge 5 charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 100Top Free · Developer Tools · IT
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Surge 5 entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Free · Developer Tools · GB · Top Free · Developer Tools · KR · Top Free · Developer Tools · SA
- 🆕Surge 5 first spotted by AppInsider#35 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools · United Kingdom
- 📦Surge 5 version 5.22.1No release notes
- 🆕Surge 5 released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.1 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#6
Developer Tools GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
5.8
▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Surge 5 at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Surge 5 is a professional-grade network proxy and debugging tool for developers that enables traffic interception, modification, and routing via advanced rule systems. The app demonstrates strong commercial traction in the Developer Tools category, ranking #5 in US grossing and #6 in Japan, while maintaining significant visibility on free charts across multiple global markets.
Similar apps: Shadowrocket, Quantumult X, Loon
Surge 5 on the App Store
App details
App ID
1442620678
Publisher
Surge Networks Inc.
On the store since
Nov 2018
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
3
EN ZH ZH
Size
76 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
App privacy Measured
Surge 5’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 1 linked to your identity and 2 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
0
Linked to you
1
Not linked to you
2
Linked to your identity
CContact Info
Not linked to you
UUsage Data+1 more
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Surge 5 downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Surge 5's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Surge 5 before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Surge 5 makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Surge Pro subscription | |
| 2 | Feature Subscription subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Developer ToolsGrossing | #6 |
 Japan | Developer ToolsGrossing | #10 |
| United States | Developer ToolsFree | #23 |
| Japan | Developer ToolsFree | #26 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsGrossing | #20 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsGrossing | #8 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsGrossing | #17 |
 South Korea | Developer ToolsFree | #25 |
| South Korea | Developer ToolsGrossing | #48 |
 Indonesia | Developer ToolsFree | #17 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsFree | #81 |
 Russia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #45 |
 India | Developer ToolsGrossing | #64 |
 France | Developer ToolsGrossing | #81 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsFree | #59 |
| Russia | Developer ToolsFree | #52 |
| Australia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #89 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsGrossing | #90 |
| Indonesia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #54 |
| India | Developer ToolsFree | #87 |
 Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #66 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsGrossing | #50 |
| Canada | Developer ToolsFree | #126 |
| Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsFree | #84 |
| France | Developer ToolsFree | #188 |
| United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsFree | #145 |
Apps near Surge 5 on the chart
Developer Tools Grossing, around #6.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.1 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
5.8
▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.1★
vs 4.0★ lifetime
Review momentum
75/100
faster than 93% of Developer Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Surge 5
From the 54 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users are highly dissatisfied with the app's pricing model and lack of support for modern protocols like VLESS. While some praise its stability and UI, many feel the subscription costs are unjustified given missing features compared to competitors.
Mostly negative (35% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and missing features or content.
What people like
- Features & content: “It's not so much a tool as a window to a new world”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “I pay subscription every year”
- Features & content: “Current subscription provides few features and protocols”
About Surge 5
Surge is an advanced network toolbox and proxy utility. It is designed for developers and therefore requires professional knowledge to use.
These four capabilities form the core workflow of Surge:
· Takeover: Take over the network connections sent by the device. Surge supports both proxy service and virtual NIC takeover, capturing HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP traffic from any app — even those ignoring proxy settings. All features work on the cellular network.
· Processing: Modify the requests and responses that have been taken over: URL rewrite, header and body rewrite, local file mapping, custom DNS answers, and JavaScript-based modification.
· Forwarding: Forward requests to proxy servers, either globally or driven by a flexible rule system. Policy groups select the best server automatically by latency, availability, or learned connection quality.
· Intercept: Record and inspect requests and responses, including headers and bodies, and decrypt HTTPS traffic with MITM.
Highlighted Features
· Proxy protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS5, SOCKS5-TLS, HTTP2 CONNECT, TrustTunnel, Shadowsocks, Snell, Trojan, Hysteria 2, AnyTLS, and SSH, with UDP relay support.
· Used as a WireGuard or Tailscale client, converting the L3 VPN into a proxy policy.
· Rules based on domain match/suffix/keyword/wildcard, CIDR IP range, GeoIP, ASN, protocol, port, and logical combinations; reusable rule sets hosted locally or remotely.
· Policy groups: manual selection, automatic latency testing, fallback, load balancing, and the self-learning Smart group.
· Complete DNS suite: DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-HTTP/3, DNS-over-QUIC, DNS-over-TLS, and concurrent queries for the fastest answer.
· Local DNS mapping (equivalent to /etc/hosts) with wildcards, aliases, and per-domain DNS servers. Switch your app between production and development environments without changing any code.
· Decrypt HTTPS traffic with Man-in-the-Middle and a built-in CA certificate generator.
· Record and display HTTP requests and responses with JSON, text, image, and video viewers for the captured body; album mode for the request list; pre-filter for capturing.
· Raw L3 packet capture.
· Scripting: extend Surge with JavaScript — modify requests and responses, write custom rules, customize DNS answers, and run scheduled tasks.
· Block unwanted requests by rules with high-performance pre-matching.
· Measure traffic usage and network speed on Wi-Fi, cellular, and proxy connections.
· Remote Dashboard: observe and debug traffic in real time from a Mac via Wi-Fi or USB, including cellular traffic.
· Surge Ponte: access your home or office network remotely via your own devices, with no third-party service involved.
· HTTPS proxy protocol supports client-side TLS certificate validation.
· Safari extension to add rules; widgets and Information Panel for quick control.
· Sync profiles across devices with iCloud Drive or Dropbox.
· Full IPv6 support, TLS 1.3, HTTP/2, and QUIC.
· High performance and industrial-grade stabilit
These four capabilities form the core workflow of Surge:
· Takeover: Take over the network connections sent by the device. Surge supports both proxy service and virtual NIC takeover, capturing HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP traffic from any app — even those ignoring proxy settings. All features work on the cellular network.
· Processing: Modify the requests and responses that have been taken over: URL rewrite, header and body rewrite, local file mapping, custom DNS answers, and JavaScript-based modification.
· Forwarding: Forward requests to proxy servers, either globally or driven by a flexible rule system. Policy groups select the best server automatically by latency, availability, or learned connection quality.
· Intercept: Record and inspect requests and responses, including headers and bodies, and decrypt HTTPS traffic with MITM.
Highlighted Features
· Proxy protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS5, SOCKS5-TLS, HTTP2 CONNECT, TrustTunnel, Shadowsocks, Snell, Trojan, Hysteria 2, AnyTLS, and SSH, with UDP relay support.
· Used as a WireGuard or Tailscale client, converting the L3 VPN into a proxy policy.
· Rules based on domain match/suffix/keyword/wildcard, CIDR IP range, GeoIP, ASN, protocol, port, and logical combinations; reusable rule sets hosted locally or remotely.
· Policy groups: manual selection, automatic latency testing, fallback, load balancing, and the self-learning Smart group.
· Complete DNS suite: DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-HTTP/3, DNS-over-QUIC, DNS-over-TLS, and concurrent queries for the fastest answer.
· Local DNS mapping (equivalent to /etc/hosts) with wildcards, aliases, and per-domain DNS servers. Switch your app between production and development environments without changing any code.
· Decrypt HTTPS traffic with Man-in-the-Middle and a built-in CA certificate generator.
· Record and display HTTP requests and responses with JSON, text, image, and video viewers for the captured body; album mode for the request list; pre-filter for capturing.
· Raw L3 packet capture.
· Scripting: extend Surge with JavaScript — modify requests and responses, write custom rules, customize DNS answers, and run scheduled tasks.
· Block unwanted requests by rules with high-performance pre-matching.
· Measure traffic usage and network speed on Wi-Fi, cellular, and proxy connections.
· Remote Dashboard: observe and debug traffic in real time from a Mac via Wi-Fi or USB, including cellular traffic.
· Surge Ponte: access your home or office network remotely via your own devices, with no third-party service involved.
· HTTPS proxy protocol supports client-side TLS certificate validation.
· Safari extension to add rules; widgets and Information Panel for quick control.
· Sync profiles across devices with iCloud Drive or Dropbox.
· Full IPv6 support, TLS 1.3, HTTP/2, and QUIC.
· High performance and industrial-grade stabilit
Latest updates
5.23.0
New Features
- Added the `[IP Rewrite]` section to process packets entering Surge VIF by destination address before rule matching. Supported actions include `reflect`, `reject`, and `drop`. This can provide on-device loopback functionality for certain iOS developer toolchains.
- Added a `category` parameter to policy groups for grouped display.
- All `test-url` parameters now support HTTPS URLs. Results still measure a single HTTP round-trip latency, although TLS handshakes may increase overall testing time.
- Added a device communication takeover option for Include All mode.
- Added external resource management and other helper endpoints to the HTTP API.
- URL-based linked profiles can now be updated manually.
UI and Rules
- Updated UI layouts and details for iPhone Duo support.
- Improved the Add Rule page: domain rules can now be created from SNI-sniffed requests, and rule-specific options can be selected directly.
- Inline rulesets with the same name now merge across the main profile and modules, preserving rules from each source.
- Fixed logical rules incorrectly parsing policy names containing parentheses.
Networking and Reliability
- Improved Tailscale and WireGuard behavior when switching networks.
- Improved UDP test diagnostics for peer-to-peer Tailscale and WireGuard policies without Internet egress, reporting unsupported tests instead of waiting for a timeout.
- Removed an erroneous Ponte notification when using a Ponte policy in a policy group.
- Reverted per-domain MITM key-pair generation to address noticeable delays when intercepting many different domains concurrently.
- Fixed a scripting-engine compatibility issue.
- Improved performance and memory usage, fixed rare crashes, and resolved other minor issues.
5.22.1
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