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Yaak vs REST Client for VS Code: catalog facts
Yaak	REST Client for VS Code
Freemium Yaak is MIT licensed and free to build and use. Development is funded by…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
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	Requests stored as plain text .http files Responses shown directly in the editor
A much younger project than Postman, with a smaller community No hosted collaboration features if that is what you actually want	Requires Visual Studio Code Focused on HTTP requests rather than full API test suites
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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