Rest Client Alternatives

Rest Client is described as 'Feature rich rest client for developers to debug and test their RESTful web services. It can be used to request a URL using the following HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH, COPY, SEARCH, OPTIONS' and is a API Client in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rest Client for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Google Chrome apps. The best Rest Client alternative is Postman, which is free. Other great apps like Rest Client are Insomnia REST Client, Fiddler, Google Chrome Developer Tools and HTTP Toolkit.

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  1. RESTer icon

    RESTer

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    A REST client for almost any web service (Firefox and Chrome extension).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  2. TestMace icon

    TestMace

     7 likes

    Powerful IDE to work with API. Harness the power of scenarios, autocompletion and syntax highlight for API development. Write tests, share code without leaving the comfortable development environment.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. API Test Base icon

    API Test Base

     1 like

    API Test Base is a free, offline-first tool for testing APIs and their side effects — the records an API writes to a database, the messages it publishes to a queue, the downstream services it calls. Test cases are created with a no-code / low-code UI, and the same tests can be...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker
    • Linux
    Test case run result — API invoked and its database side effect verified
     
  5. RestCase icon

    RestCase

     1 like

    RestCase is a security-focused API development platform that enables its users to rapidly create secure microservices, mock them in order to start testing, monitor APIs and collaborate on their development and testing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. HTTPScoop icon

    HTTPScoop

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    HTTP Scoop is a Mac network sniffer that displays requests to websites along with the response, and makes it fairly easy to see what's going on.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main Window
     
  8. REST-Explorer icon

    REST-Explorer

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    REST-Explorer is an easy to use tool to query or debug REST-based web-services using HTTP or HTTPS. It supports the methods GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE, HEAD and PATCH. A request can consist of text (JSON/XML), any kind of HTTP headers and Anonymous, Basic or Windows...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    HTTP response data can be formated according to its content-type and displayed using syntax highlighting for JSON, XML and HTML.
     
  9. Omnibug icon

    Omnibug

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    Omnibug is a plugin for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers to ease developing and debugging web metrics implementations. Each outgoing request (sent by the browser) is checked for a pattern; if a match occurs, the URL is displayed and decoded to show the details of...

    21 Omnibug alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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    Iron Test

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    API test automation tool that has GUI, supports HTTP stubs (mock services), data driven testing, and API types beyond HTTP, such as relational database, JMS, FTP(s), AMQP, MQTT, etc.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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