HTTPie Desktop is a cross-platform API testing client for humans. It offers all the user-friendliness of the terminal version of httpie, now wrapped up in a sleek graphical interface.
- Interact painlessly with APIs
- Leverage the power of AI-assisted work
- Organize your work in spaces, collections, and tabs
- Parametrize requests with variables and environments
- Work across devices with auto-save and realtime sync
- Build and preview requests without sending them
- Use the app offline and without an account
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2025.2.014 Mar 2025
✨ Enhancements
- 📤 Export/Import — Backup, share, or publish your data as JSON.
- 🗂️ Export a whole space — Transfer entire workspaces with all content.
- 🔒 Export private items — Include drafts and local environments in exports.
- 📂 Collection export — Share and back up request collections.
- 🛫 Request export — Export with optional auth and variable embedding.
- 🌍 Environment export — Share variables across teams and projects.
- 📋 Clipboard export/import — Quick sharing without saving files.
- 🔍 Export customization — Selectively include only what you need.
- 📥 Import options — Choose between creating or updating spaces.
- 🛠️ Export JSON format — Schema and TypeScript type support.
- 📋 Copy as — Instantly generate CLI commands from requests.
- 🔗 Path parameters — Parametrize URLs with /:param syntax.
- ✨ Other enhancements — Fixed Postman import, etc.
2025.1.018 Jan 2025
✨ Enhancements
- 💇♀️ UI refresh — A cleaner and more focused UI.
- ⚡ Variable autocomplete — Searchable autocomplete for variables.
- 🎛️ Interactive references — Interact with variables as tokens.
- 🗃 Variables context menu — All the actions in one place.
- 🧩 Refactor variables — Rename variables across all usages.
- 🎯 Go to definition — Quickly navigate to variable definitions.
- 🏷️ Quick-define variables — Define variables on the fly during usage.
- ⛓️💥 Inline values — Replace variable references with their values.
- 🎭 Peek at values — Securely reveal masked variable values.
- 📋 Copy references — Copy variable references easily.
- 💤 Case-sensitivity — Support any variable naming style.
- 🏃 Escape variables — Escape variables for use as strings.
🪲 Bug fixes
- Fixed importing of individual Postman collections.
- Fixed false positives when detecting AI-prompt mode in the URL field.
- Various other minor fixes.
2024.1.26 Jan 2024
🪲 Fixed a bug introduced in 2024.1.1 that led to Control-W on Linux and Windows unintentionally closing the app window instead of just the current tab.
2024.1.13 Jan 2024
✨ Enhancements
- 📙 New documentation site — quickly access it via the Help menu (httpie.io/docs/desktop)
- ♻️ New sync protocol — groundwork for upcoming multiplayer mode
- 🚜 Selective field merging — changes are now applied on the field level, not doc level
- ✌️ Conflict resolution — auto-merging of changes made across clients (same-field conflicts stay last-write-wins for now)
- 🚀 Much faster initial sync — up to 20 times fewer requests
- 💁♀️ Startup feedback — understand what the app is doing during longer operation
- 🛫 Ctrl+R to send request — don’t fight your muscle memory (desktop-only)
🪲 Bug fixes
- Fixed search and filter keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+F and Shift+Ctrl+F) to always focus the input field
- Fixed cursor jumping in search, replace, and filter fields when typing from start/middle
- Fixed search from selection
- Fixed missing params in cURL and HTTPie export
- Fixed Bearer auth token sent as param instead of header under some circumstances
- Fixed inheriting API key from collection and passing as param
- Fixed handling of unnamed headers to be treated as disabled instead of invalid
- Fixed validation of URLs containing variables
- Fixed repeat invocations of the “Check again” button inside the “Update HTTPie” dialog
