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Desktop App

Yaak

A fast, private desktop API client for REST, GraphQL and gRPC.

Visit Yaak4.5

  • Rating

    4.5 / 5

  • Pricing

    Freemium

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    macOS, Windows, Linux

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What is Yaak?

Yaak is an open-source desktop app for sending and testing API requests over REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets and Server-Sent Events. It imports Postman, Insomnia and OpenAPI collections, keeps secrets in your system keychain and can mirror workspaces to folders for Git, so testing an API stays quick and offline. It's free for personal use, while commercial use of the prebuilt app needs a paid licence.

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Pros: what Yaak does well

  • Imports Postman and Insomnia collections
  • No telemetry and no cloud lock-in
  • Open source under the MIT licence

Cons: where it falls short

  • Commercial use needs a licence
  • Smaller plugin ecosystem than Postman

Who Yaak is for

Developers who want a lightweight, private Postman alternative.

Who can skip it

People who never work with APIs.

Yaak alternatives

Not sold on Yaak? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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Bruno

Focus: api testing, postman alternative and git. Shares api client and open source with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.6Visit

Atuin

Focus: shell history, terminal and command line. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

btop

Focus: system monitor, terminal and processes. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

chezmoi

Focus: dotfiles, config management and command line. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.7Visit

htop

Focus: process viewer, system monitor and terminal. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

Hugo

Focus: static site, blog and documentation. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.7Visit

Free alternatives to Yaak

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Yazi

Focus: file manager, terminal ui and developer tool. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.7Visit

DB Browser for SQLite

Focus: database, sqlite and spreadsheet. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

DBeaver

Focus: database, sql and data. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

direnv

Focus: environment variables, shell and projects. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit

K9s

Focus: kubernetes, devops and terminal ui. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

kitty

Focus: terminal, command line and gpu. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit
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