Mr.2 vs PageKite: What are the differences?

What is Mr.2? Expose a local server to an external network. Helps you expose a local server to an external network. Supports both TCP/UDP, of course, support HTTP.

What is PageKite? Make local websites or SSH servers publicly accessible in mere seconds. PageKite is a system for exposing localhost servers to the public Internet. It is most commonly used to make local web servers or SSH servers publicly visible, although almost any TCP-based protocol can work if the client knows how to use an HTTP proxy.

Mr.2 and PageKite can be categorized as "localhost" tools.

Some of the features offered by Mr.2 are:

• Cross-platform
• Supports both TCP/UDP
• HTTP Support

On the other hand, PageKite provides the following key features:

• Let colleagues and clients test or remote-debug directly off your computer.
• Simplify testing on mobile devices and live networks.
• Run webhooks, API servers or git repos on your desktop - or in a VM.

Mr.2 and PageKite are both open source tools. It seems that Mr.2 with 748 GitHub stars and 30 forks on GitHub has more adoption than PageKite with 499 GitHub stars and 90 GitHub forks.