PAW

What do you like best?

Having used other products to test APIs with (Postman, Insomnia), PAW is the easiest to use of the bunch and very aesthetically pleasing. Many other apps have extremely cluttered UIs but this one has the most succinct and well thought-out UIs of them all. The plugin system is so useful and easy to use (JS) , the variable system is also very well made.

It also allows to organize requests, make groups and sort by host, name and so on. There's a very nice support to OAuth 1 and 2, Basic Auth, S3, and can even generate JWT tokens easily. One of my favorite feature is to really easily generate ready-to-use client code, so you can simply import a cURL from a browser, modify the request, then simply generate the code to Python, Go, Swift, Java… you can even export to Postman if your client wants to! That's really awesome.

The use of quick mouse and keyboard shortcut access makes the software easy and very fast to use.

And of course, you can see the request and response informations with their headers and bodies.

What do you dislike?

PAW is macOS-only unfortunately. Even if my company only have macOS-based computers for their developers, this is unfortunate that it's not available for Windows.

Also, there's no way to mock an API, and that very sad since I need to use another software to do that. That would be very good to work with my team.

Also, the price is very unattractive.

Other than that, PAW is the best tool for dealing with APIs and GraphQL, really.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It sends all kinds of HTTP requests;

Supports GraphQL;

Can import and export to a bunch of formats;

Allows browsing request and response JSON in outline and editor format;

Supports almost all authentication formats;

Supports dynamic values and environments.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

It's good, simple an clean UI, I have been using PAW for years now, and it's one of the best to build, test and browse REST and GraphQL APIs.