Paw vs Pact: What are the differences?

What is Paw? The ultimate REST client for Mac. 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.

What is Pact? Fast, easy and reliable testing for your APIs and microservices during development. It is a code-first tool for testing HTTP and message integrations using contract tests. Contract tests assert that inter-application messages conform to a shared understanding that is documented in a contract. Without contract testing, the only way to ensure that applications will work correctly together is by using expensive and brittle integration tests.

Paw can be classified as a tool in the "API Tools" category, while Pact is grouped under "Microservices Tools".

Some of the features offered by Paw are:

• 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.

On the other hand, Pact provides the following key features:

• Support for JavaScript, JVM, .NET, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Swift and more
• Get fast, reliable feedback on the compatibility of your integrations
• Ensures all your services are compatible with each other before you deploy

Pact is an open source tool with 196 GitHub stars and 93 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pact's open source repository on GitHub.