ngrok
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
3warn against
Dec 4, 2025first mention
Sep 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“exactly what ngrok already does since forever with a pretty high free quota”
Caveats and dissent
“you will often find the ngrok/cloudflare tunnels too slow to load the local host assets”
“Every time I used ngrok for quickly sharing my localhost site, I just prayed no bots finds it”
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“I was trying ngrok, localtunnel, and a couple more, they all were pretty slow”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- Tunnl.gg 1 mention
Data: ngrok.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“you will often find the ngrok/cloudflare tunnels too slow to load the local host assets”
“exactly what ngrok already does since forever with a pretty high free quota”
“Ngrok is fine”
“I used to use a service called ngrok for this”
“I have played around with frp, bore and ngrok.”
“Every time I used ngrok for quickly sharing my localhost site, I just prayed no bots finds it”
“I was trying ngrok, localtunnel, and a couple more, they all were pretty slow”
“I used ngrok when it was the to-go answer for serving localhost”