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Yaak vs HTTPie for Desktop: catalog facts
YaakHTTPie for Desktop
Freemium

Yaak is MIT licensed and free to build and use. Development is funded by…

Free

Usable without an account during the public beta; no price is listed.

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux, Web
  • Requests are stored as files on your machine, so a git repository is the shared collection
  • REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and Server-Sent Events in one client
  • Works offline and without an account
  • Collections, environments and variables for organising requests
  • A much younger project than Postman, with a smaller community
  • No hosted collaboration features if that is what you actually want
  • Still labelled as a public beta
  • Unlike the HTTPie terminal tool, the desktop app is not presented as open source
Downloadable app Downloadable app, Web application
Open source Closed source
License: MIT License not stated
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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