Two different jobs, one search
People land on this comparison after the same afternoon. An app has nowhere to type a proxy. Or a browser does, and they still need a second login, with its own cookies, that leaves through a different exit. Those are not the same request.
ProxyTool is a proxy client. It routes any application through a proxy, including apps that have no proxy settings of their own. Discord, a game, a launcher, a desktop tool from 2014. The proxy lives in one place. The apps point at it.
Social Browser is a desktop browser. It keeps a proxy on one browser profile, together with that profile's cookies, logins and local data. The next profile can use a different proxy. The rest of the computer is not part of the product.
A short comparison is the useful piece. Neither tool is a stand-in for the other.
What ProxyTool is for
A proxy client sits under the applications. The proxy server is someone else's machine. The client is the part that knows both "this program" and "this SOCKS5".
That is the job when:
- The app has no host field, no port field and no "use a proxy" checkbox.
- You want one application on the proxy and the next one direct, at the same time.
- The password, the city or the port changes, and you refuse to paste the new line into every program that stored the old one.
ProxyTool does that on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and iPadOS. SOCKS5, HTTPS, or a chain. Per app. The credentials are one record. A rule points at the record. It does not keep a private copy.
The screen is the other half of the job. You see which app leaves through which exit, including the ones that never grew a proxy setting. You can say the rule in a sentence and let the AI write it, then edit it like any other rule. The longer version of that idea is keep the proxy in one place.
What it does not do: split one browser into separate people. Chrome is one application. Two windows, two Chrome profiles, two accounts in the same browser still share the rule you set for chrome.exe. Cookies and logins stay the browser's problem. ProxyTool does not keep them apart.
What Social Browser is for
Social Browser is the other shape. You create a browser profile. That profile keeps its own cookies, logins, local storage, history and, if you want one, its own proxy. You come back to the same saved browser state. The data stays on the machine unless you export it.
That is the job when the work is inside a browser:
- Two accounts that must not share a cookie jar.
- A proxy that belongs to that profile, not to every program on the PC.
- Scripts, extensions and repeatable browser steps that should run inside the profile you already configured.
It runs on Windows and Linux. It is a browser, not a proxy client for the rest of the desktop. A game with no proxy setting, a messenger, a launcher: those are outside it. Social Browser says plainly that it is not an anti-detect browser. The point is separate profiles and the proxy on each one, not a disguise.
Their site is social-browser.com.
Side by side
The thing being routed. ProxyTool routes applications. Social Browser routes a browser profile.
Apps with no proxy setting. ProxyTool is built for that. Social Browser does not take over those apps. It is the browser.
Separate cookies and logins. Social Browser keeps them per profile. ProxyTool does not. Two profiles inside the same browser share one application rule.
Where the proxy is stored. ProxyTool keeps one proxy record and points apps at it. Social Browser keeps the proxy on the profile, next to that profile's browser data.
What stays direct. In ProxyTool you leave the apps you do not want on the exit off the rule. In Social Browser the other applications were never in the product.
Platforms. ProxyTool: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, iPadOS. Social Browser: Windows and Linux.
Which one to open
Open ProxyTool when the sentence is "this program has no proxy setting" or "I am tired of typing the same host and password into every app". One place for the proxy. Any application, including the ones that cannot ask for one.
Open Social Browser when the sentence is "this browser profile needs its own cookies, its own login and its own proxy". One profile. One browser session. The proxy stays with that session.
Plenty of desks want both, and they do not collide. Social Browser holds the accounts that have to stay separate. ProxyTool holds everything else that has to leave through a proxy, including the apps that will never grow a settings page. A ProxyTool profile, in the technical docs, is the setup file for proxies and rules. It is not a browser login. That distinction is written next to the profiles section: Profiles in the technical docs.
The link
For a partners page, a knowledge base or this comparison, the ProxyTool link is proxytool.app/?from=social-browser. Social Browser is social-browser.com.
No fee for the mention. The useful piece is the comparison, with a link each way.