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Best Productivity ResourcesBy Shushant LakhyaniVerified creator

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.

Third-party open-source projects. We are not affiliated with their authors; repositories are provided as-is by their maintainers. Review each project's license, code and security before installing. See our Disclaimer.

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

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

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

massCode

Focus: code snippets, developer notes and http client. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

superfile

Focus: file manager, terminal ui and developer tool. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

Free alternatives to Yaak

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

Zellij

Focus: terminal multiplexer, developer tool and workspace. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit

Zen Browser

Focus: web browser, vertical tabs and workspaces. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.6Visit

Pake

Focus: web to desktop, app wrapper and tauri. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Same 4.5 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.5Visit

Ulauncher

Focus: app launcher, linux and fuzzy search. Shares open source and github with Yaak. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Same 4.5 rating.

Desktop AppFreeLinux, Offline
4.5Visit

AeroSpace

Focus: tiling window manager, window management and keyboard shortcuts. Shares open source and github with Yaak. A Mac app, not a desktop app. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.7 (Yaak: 4.5).

Mac AppFreemacOS
4.7Visit

Amethyst

Focus: window manager, tiling and mac utility. Shares open source and github with Yaak. A Mac app, not a desktop app. Free (Yaak: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Yaak: 4.5).

Mac AppFreemacOS, Offline
4.6Visit
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