Alternatives
Since Apple's Crash Reporter only submits crash reports to Apple, there are some third party alternatives which allow users to also submit crash reports to the developers of the crashing software. Red Sweater Software's summer 2009 blog post Crash Reporter Roundup compares various crash reporters; current ones include:
- Unsanity developed an Input Manager called Smart Crash Reports, that patches Apple software to include a "submit to developer" button within Crash Reporter. Smart Crash Reports only works with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
- Uli Kusterer wrote UKCrashReporter, which can send the output of Apple's Crash Reporter to a developer the next time the application is started.
- CMCrashReporter is a small opensource framework, which can send the crashlog to the developer (via HTTP POST) and let the user enter optional details.
- ILCrashReporter-NG, a fork of Infinite Loop's ILCrashReporter (which was for Mac OS X 10.2-10.5); current OS support unknown
- plcrashreporter Plausible CrashReporter provides an in-process crash reporting framework for use on both the iPhone and Mac OS X
- Google Breakpad, an open-source multi-platform crash reporting system
Read more about this topic: Crash Reporter (Mac OS X)
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