Developer tools
Yaak alternatives
3 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
mountain-loop/yaakthe vendor’s own source★18,949 GitHub starsMIT licenceThe most intuitive desktop API client. Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Server Sent Events, and gRPC 🦬Open on GitHub ↗Kong/insomnia★39,935 GitHub starsApache-2.0 licenceCross-platform API client supporting REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, with local and Git-backed storage.Open on GitHub ↗hoppscotch/hoppscotch★79,989 GitHub starsMIT licenceOpen-source API development tool with web/desktop/CLI clients for sending requests and managing collections offline.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Signed prebuilt installers and automatic updater for paid binaries
- Official commercial email support and priority support
- Built-in licensed team features like SSO/user provisioning out-of-the-box
- Paid roadmap influence/priority feature requests
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Yaak, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.