Paw Alternatives After RapidAPI for Mac Lost macOS Support

Paw was the native Mac API client many developers preferred to Postman. RapidAPI bought it in February 2021, renamed it RapidAPI for Mac in version 4.0.0 on November 15, 2022, and Nokia took over Rapid's technology and team in a deal announced on November 13, 2024. The app still opens and still runs on current systems, but the official Paw site now says that upcoming macOS releases, including macOS 27, will not be tested, certified or officially supported by Nokia.

On September 16, 2026, the French Mac site MacGeneration reported that Nokia had dropped the app and that development had all but stopped. The last entry in the update log is 4.5.5 from April 20, 2026, so each new macOS version is a risk. The picks below start with local clients that feel closest to Paw on a Mac, then move to team platforms and one traffic inspector. Our Insomnia alternatives guide compares several of the same clients from an Insomnia user's side.

Prices below are as of November 8, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Yaak

Greg Schier built Insomnia, sold it in 2019, and came back with Yaak. For a Paw user, the appeal is the same quiet, local feel: no account, no forced cloud sync, and requests sent straight from your machine. Each request, folder and environment is saved as its own YAML file, which makes a Git diff readable.

Yaak speaks REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and server-sent events, and it imports Postman, Insomnia, Bruno, OpenAPI and curl. The source is MIT-licensed. The Yaak pricing page says a licence is only required when you use it at work, with a 30-day evaluation that needs no card or signup.

Best for: Solo developers on a Mac who want the closest thing to Paw's speed and privacy.

Pricing:

• Personal use: free
• Individual: $79 per year, or $349 one-time for a lifetime licence
• Business: $149 per user per year
• No monthly billing

Watch out for:

• There is no Paw importer, so moving old projects means going through curl or OpenAPI first.
• An Individual licence is tied to one named person and up to three devices, and non-profits also need a commercial licence.

Official site: Yaak.

Bruno

Bruno suits Paw users who kept their projects in a repository and disliked cloud sync. Collections live as plain-text files next to your code, the app has no login, and teammates share work through ordinary pull requests. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

The free open-source edition covers HTTP, REST, GraphQL and gRPC, scripting, tests, code generation, history and unlimited collection runs. Paid plans exist for teams that want secret-manager integrations, data-driven tests, reports and SSO.

Best for: Teams that want API requests reviewed in Git like any other code change.

Pricing:

• Open Source: $0
• Pro: $6 per user per month, billed annually
• Ultimate: $11 per user per month, billed annually
• Enterprise: $18 per user per month, billed annually

Watch out for:

• The Bruno pricing table keeps data-driven testing, report generation and private Git providers out of the free edition, and caps free use at 2 workspaces.
• Sharing runs through Git only, so a teammate who never touches Git has no easy way to see the latest collection.

Official site: Bruno.

Postman

Postman is where many Paw teams end up when the company already pays for it. It goes well past a request builder: API specs, mock servers, monitors, published docs, flows and AI features billed in credits. If Paw was one tool among several in your stack, Postman can replace a few of them at once.

Free covers one user with 1,000 monitoring requests a month. Solo is a flat $9 a month and Team is $19 per user a month, both billed annually, while Enterprise goes through sales.

Best for: Companies with many APIs that want specs, tests, mocks and monitoring in one account.

Pricing:

• Free: $0, 1 user, 1,000 monitoring requests a month
• Solo: $9 a month, billed annually, 400 AI credits a month
• Team: $19 per user per month, billed annually
• Enterprise: contact sales

Watch out for:

• Even a two-person team pays, because the Postman pricing page limits the free plan to a single user.
• Work syncs to Postman's cloud by default, which is the opposite of how Paw stored projects.

Official site: Postman. Our listing: Postman.

Insomnia

Kong's Insomnia sits between Bruno and Postman. It sends REST, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSocket requests, edits OpenAPI design documents, runs mock servers and has the Inso CLI for tests in CI. Version 13.4.0 shipped on October 29, 2026, and projects can live in Kong's cloud, locally or in Git.

The free Essentials plan gives every user unlimited cloud and local projects, Git Sync for up to 3 users and 1,000 mock requests a month. A local-only Scratch Pad works with no login at all.

Best for: API designers who want spec editing, mocks and a CLI next to the request client.

Pricing:

• Essentials: $0
• Pro: from $12 per user a month
• Enterprise: from $45 per user a month, self-serve up to 50 users
• Extra mock requests: $10 per 25,000

Watch out for:

• Everything except Scratch Pad needs a Kong account, and a GitHub discussion on forced login from May 2024 records users calling the sign-in server a single point of failure.

Official site: Insomnia.

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch began in the browser, so it works on a locked-down laptop or a borrowed machine: open the web app and send a request. Desktop apps exist for macOS, Windows and Linux, and a CLI runs collections in CI. The free plan includes collections, environments, pre-request scripts, tests and a runner.

The bigger reason to pick it is self-hosting. The Hoppscotch repository is MIT-licensed and ships Docker files, so a company that liked keeping Paw data in-house can run the whole platform on its own servers.

Best for: Companies that want a shared API client running on their own infrastructure.

Pricing:

• Free: $0 forever, personal workspace
• Business: $6 per user per month, billed annually
• Enterprise: $11 per user per month, billed annually
• Self-hosted community edition: free

Watch out for:

• In the browser, APIs without CORS headers and plain http:// endpoints need the proxy mode or a browser extension.
• Shared team workspaces start at the Business tier.

Official site: Hoppscotch.

HTTPie Desktop

Plenty of people used Paw only to hit a few endpoints and read the JSON. HTTPie Desktop covers that job with less to learn. It comes from the team behind the HTTPie command-line tool and runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, plus a web version.

The HTTPie Desktop page says the app works offline and without an account. Requests sit in spaces, collections and tabs, with variables and environments, and signing in adds sync across devices.

Best for: Developers who want a clean window for occasional requests and nothing else.

Pricing:

• Free; no paid plan published for the desktop app

Watch out for:

• The app is still labelled a public beta.
• It has no mock servers, monitors or test runner, so it does not replace Paw for scripted test suites.

Official site: HTTPie Desktop.

Proxyman

Proxyman is a different kind of tool. Instead of building requests, it captures the HTTP and HTTPS traffic your Mac, iPhone or Android apps already send, then lets you replay, edit and mock it. Paw users who mostly debugged a mobile app's calls may find this fits better than another API client.

It started as a native macOS app and now also runs on Windows and Linux. Breakpoints, Map Local, Map Remote and scripting are in the paid plans, and the Personal plan includes the iOS and Android apps.

Best for: iOS and Mac developers who need to see and change what their app sends.

Pricing:

• Trial: free, limited features
• Standard: $89 one-time, 1 device, 1 year of updates
• Personal: $99 one-time, 2 desktop and 2 mobile seats
• Team: $99 per seat one-time, or $12 per seat per month billed yearly, minimum 5 seats

Watch out for:

• The free trial allows only 1 debugging rule and has no Breakpoint, Map Local or scripting, according to the Proxyman pricing page.
• It is not a request library. Saved collections and environments are not its job.

Official site: Proxyman.

How to choose

When to stay with Paw

Keep RapidAPI for Mac for now if you are on macOS 26 or earlier and your projects depend on Paw's dynamic values or extensions. Nokia says the app continues to operate on supported versions, so nothing breaks on the day you read this. Plan the move before you upgrade to macOS 27, because Nokia will not test or support it there, and export what you can while the app still runs.

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