# httpie/desktop

🚀 HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.

Repository: https://github.com/httpie/desktop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/httpie-desktop
Homepage: https://httpie.io
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: desktop, httpie, api, api-client, api-testing, developer-tools
Last push: 2025-03-19T23:20:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 35/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 12, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1734, "days_push": 532, "days_rel": 537, "gap_med": 54, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4031, forks 61 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:32.769016+00:00)

## What it is
HTTPie Desktop is a cross-platform graphical API testing client for REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs, distributed via this repository as releases for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It brings the user-friendliness of the HTTPie CLI into a GUI with features like workspaces, environments, variables, real-time sync, and export/import of request collections.

## Use cases
- test rest apis with a gui client
- send http requests without writing curl commands
- debug graphql endpoints
- manage api request collections and environments
- share and back up api request collections as
- import requests from postman or curl
- parametrize urls with path variables

## When to choose
- you want a friendly GUI alternative to curl or Postman for API testing
- you need cross-platform desktop support including Linux AppImage
- you already like HTTPie's CLI ergonomics and want a graphical version
- you need workspaces, environments, and sync across devices

## When to avoid
- you need a scriptable CLI-only tool (use HTTPie CLI instead)
- you require fully open-source licensing for the app itself (license is non-standard and the repo only publishes releases)
- you need automated API testing in CI pipelines
- you need a lightweight terminal-based workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, developer-tools, gui
- domain: developer-tools, apis, web-development
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: api-testing, rest-client, graphql-client, httpie, api-client, postman-alternative, command-line, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- httpie/desktop (main) score 35

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.769016+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:50.737706+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/httpie/desktop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.769016+00:00, sha 27ba9c01a08f)
  - homepage: https://httpie.io (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:50.776861+00:00, sha 834014f0aeeb)
  - site_page: https://httpie.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:50.779625+00:00, sha 094d0ee471f7)
  - site_page: https://httpie.io/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:50.785520+00:00, sha bd81b28e4ee3)
  - site_page: https://httpie.io/blog/changelog-0027 (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:50.781336+00:00, sha 791601e8f1dd)
  - site_page: https://httpie.io/blog/changelog-0017 (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:50.783511+00:00, sha 3b317c8544eb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.