What is Paw?
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
Paw is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses Paw?
Companies
35 companies reportedly use Paw in their tech stacks, including TransferGo, Biting Bit, and Fundamentei.
Developers
180 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Paw.
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Paw's Features
- Organize your Requests, make Groups or sort by Host, Name, etc.
- Easily build your requests, enjoy Formatters and Dynamic Values.
- See Request and Response infos, headers, and body.
- View formatted or raw HTTP Requests and Responses.
- JSON Outline Viewer and Editor.
- Paw supports OAuth 1 & 2, HTTP Basic Auth and Amazon S3
- Paw generates ready-to-use client code
Paw Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Paw?
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Insomnia REST Client
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
OpenAPI
It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
Retrofit
Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
OpenAPI Specification
It defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.
