mountain-loop/yaak
The most intuitive desktop API client. Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Server Sent Events, and gRPC 🦬
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 78 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, privacy-first desktop API client supporting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and gRPC protocols.
- Offers offline-first operation with no telemetry, cloud lock-in, and secure encrypted secrets stored in the OS keychain.
- Use for testing and debugging diverse API types including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC in a single unified interface.
- Use for organizing API requests into workspaces and folders with environment variables for managing multiple deployment stages.
- Use for extending functionality via custom plugins, dynamic template tags, and theming to tailor the client to specific workflows.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Development is funded by community-purchased licenses. You can also become a sponsor to have your logo appear below. 💖
Yaak is an offline-first API client designed to stay out of your way while giving you everything you need when you need it. Built with Tauri, Rust, and React, it’s fast, lightweight, and private. No telemetry, no VC funding, and no cloud lock-in.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
840+42
Open issues
15-7
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/claude-quickstarts | 20.5K | +733 | 75 | — |
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.9K | +719 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| N4darae/shrt | 2.6K | +529 | 8 | — |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.1K | +187 | 75 | 14 days ago |
| mountain-loop/yaak | 19.4K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| BenedictKing/ccx | 4.0K | — | 32 | 117 days ago |
| Category median | 6.1K | +624 | 75 | — |
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