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MAUI Inspector — documentation

Chrome DevTools for your .NET MAUI app: inspect and live-edit the visual tree, mock HTTP traffic, hunt leaks and drive several devices at once — all from a web panel served by the app itself.

New here? Start with Getting started — two lines in MauiProgram.cs and the app prints the panel's URL.

Using the panel

• Getting started — packages, setup, options, manual control
• The web panel — the views and toolbars, and the on-device overlay
• Inspecting — the tree, the box model, the property sheet, live edits
• Styles & resources — extract style, the Resources popup, the design cookbook
• WYSIWYG editor — structure editing, toolbox, snap lines, grid designer
• Multi-device — one panel, several simulators, emulators and phones

The desktop companion

• Sync tool — maui-inspector-sync: XAML write-back, heap dumps, device ports

Diagnosing

• Network & HTTP mocking — recording, rules, scenarios, breakpoints, offline replay
• Memory & leaks — live readings, leak snapshots, heap dumps with root paths

Automating

• UI tests — Maestro and Appium: AutomationIds, mocks, a leak gate
• HTTP API — every endpoint the panel itself uses
• Leak-hunting skill — the method as a Claude Code skill

The rest

• Reference — platforms, options, storage, how it works, troubleshooting, limitations