Rest – HTTP API Client Reviews

Great app when you’re away from your laptop and need to issue some this app calls. Has all the features you’d expect, including headers, variable substitution, and different views of responses.

Using a variable in the URL needs some help. No braces in the keyboard for URLs, so you have to copy & paste from some other field to get a variable into the URL. And using a variable (containing valid host address) for the host address incorrectly shows an error: “The entered URL does not include a host, please insert a valid host.”

This does pretty well for what it does, it would be nice if you could switch between the responses on each call, instead of needing to run the call again to get the response. It would also be great if the returned JSON could be collapsed. Otherwise one of the better clients I have used for iPad.

I might just be stupid (normally am) but I would love the ability to define variables per request instead of having it project wide. I feel like this should be a feature and I just can’t find it.
Other than that I’ve had no issues with it, great work!

Works great for testing APIs. Can you add a way to duplicate a request entry? Often I have to test several requests with similar parameters (like auth headers) with a few small modifications. Also the ability to copy/paste query params and headers would be nice.

Rest is great but... I have a home server that i use https on but it uses a self signed cert. Can you add an option to allow for lower security checking on https?

I switched from HTTPBOT, one of your competitors due to lack of oauth2 support as well as lack of support (no documentation). I would wish this has oauth2 support (with redirect uri) and not just a access token. I do also wish is the support of using Siri shortcuts as a action. Please bring the advantage to Siri Shortcuts in the very near future.

I used it to poke around and lean an API on the iPad, and it worked just fine. Does what it says on the tin.

It’s not as functional as PAW or Postman, but it’s a legitimately helpful piece of software.

This is a pretty cool app with some very useful features. The request builder is a nice touch and I love the ability to view the response in various formats.

Rest provides a convenient way to directly query a web service.

Cant import or view json files. I really love Rest interface though :(

How do I have calculated current utc time stamp for a payload calculated?? What’s the point if I can’t calculate auto timestamp values for a variables.. only hard code strings?!?

I don’t like Rest, very hard to use

This not a complete app for API test, there is no body URL Encode for POST API!!!

Cannot set variables to non-string values.

I have to get my new