Rest Client Alternatives

Rest Client has been discontinued. Similar apps include Postman, which has a free version. Other options are Insomnia REST Client, Google Chrome Developer Tools, Fiddler and Hoppscotch. You're spoiled for choice with API Clients like Rest Client: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Chrome OS.

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  1. httpiness icon
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    Httpiness is aimed to be a simple, straightforward HTTP client which minimizes time to configure, send, reconfigure and resend requests in order to maximize development efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. 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 type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker
    • Linux
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  3. RestCase icon
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    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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  4. TestMace icon
     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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  5. HTTPScoop icon
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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
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  6. 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
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  7. Omnibug icon
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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...

    20 Omnibug alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  8. 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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