RESTed - Simple HTTP Requests App Reviews

Bought this app because I wanted a native alternative to the Chrome "Advanced REST Client" extension -- and I find that, for my purposes at least, the Chrome extension is more robust. For one, the HTML content of the response in Rested is truncated! It stops after about the 4th or 5th line of code… and also doesnt let me preview the actual rendered document. Nice app, but I think it needs more robust behavior for handling/previewing the response.

As a web app developer a tool like this is essential. This is the first one I’ve tried that can take the place of cURL in my toolbox. The ability to easily set headers, form values, and do authentication is much easier to use than cURL. You can also save configurations, which helps with testing. The UI is a little strange—I was confused when I couldn’t find a “submit” button. Instead, you click the “Response” tab/button and your request is automatically submitted, showing you the response. (Or: ⌘-1 for Request, ⌘-2 for Response, which is burned into my memory now).

An app to fix my stupid mistakes :) You need something like this to test restful/json services especially when writing under the new web.api from MS. Things are different and this tool makes testing a dream. Good job.

Purchased this app. Does not run. Console log indicates "Exited with exit code: 173" even after a reboot. Dissapointing.

Im still not sure why, but if the response is not a "valid" JSON/XML response, this program will output nothing. This is fine for when developing against third-party APIs that are tested already. However, if you are developing APIs and have some form of debug messages or exceptions thrown, this will not show them. For this reason, I use GraphicalHttpClient (on the Mac App Store as well) more, because it shows all output, regardless of form. Its a shame because the look/feel of Rested is really great, and Id like to use it as my primary tool. Perhaps one day the developer will allow the displaying of non-conforming output. Just my experience... Since both Rested and GraphicalHttpClient are pretty cheap, Id recommend buying both and seeing what works best for you. -- R (Im not affiliated with either program, just trying to provide a good, honest comparison)

I use this every day as a web services developer. Its got a simple interface and the developer obviously uses his own software with the constant stream of meaningful updates.

This is a great utility for anyone wanting to improve communications with their development team by getting a better understanding of whats really possible via an API. Its much moe hands-on than simply reading and communicating over 3rd party documentation and it allows stakeholders and PMs to better grasp the functionality of an API without having to actually write and execute code. This app makes it simple for someone with basic technical knowledge (urls, authentication, headers, variables, etc.) to bridge that mental gap between the business and the development team. My favorite part is that I can save all of my settings for each API, and then activate only the parameters I want to work with and when. No going back to the documentation or having to use my imagination. Nice work and highly recommended!

Can you please trigger sending of the request when you press Enter/Return in the URL field? Otherwise this is easily the best Mac native HTTP/REST client now with the UI refresh. I can almost retire GraphicalHTTPClient and the myriad of Chrome extensions I currently use.

The app was pretty good before the recent remake. Now with the new UI I think it has moved into excellent territory. Nice work!

I use this app frequently, but I couldnt keep it in my Dock because of the hideous icon. The clouds are much more pleasing! And while I second ImperialFlows suggestion to trigger the request on Enter, Im so used to pressing Cmd + R that its not a big deal to me. Great app for testing HTTP requests, much better than relying on a browser extension.

Love the new user interface, job well done. RESTed saves so much time when writing and debugging a restful api. I cant imagine working without it. After the API is finished I copy and paste the output from RESTed to Objecitfy to make my iOS classes to consume the data. Pretty sweet!

RESTed is a pretty solid application with a good UI. Ive had a few crashes while I was using it to debug an OAuth Provider I was writing (probably due to malformed output), but overall its been quite useful.

There are several pretty good HTTP clients on the App Store. I think Rested is the best: -remembers request headers when you save the request as a file (very useful if youre testing secure REST services and such -- slight security risk as your authorization token could be in the request file, but then its probably somewhere in your files or email anyway, right?); -gives you the option of getting response as raw JSON or pretty printed (and even syntax highlighted); -easy to use, with a pleasant, uncluttered interface.

Until I found this app I was doing things with curl and had textfiles with all my test requests. This app makes debuging jSON and other http calls simple, straightforward and almost enjoyable (not the apps fault). I would highly recomend this to anyone who is doing jSON calls in apps that they are writing or who simply wants a better understanding of how things are working.

What a brilliantly simple and effective tool. If it had a sidebar with a list of all my saved requests so i could quickly switch between them, I would buy 20 copies for the office.

This is a great utility. Id love to see the UI updated to log each request made, allowing you to go back to previous requests to view the results, and also possibly replay the request (perhaps, with modification). Additionally, adding a drop down in the URI field would add to the usability of the app.

This would be a great app if it also supported things like a request history, and file uploads. For a basic api, its ok.

This app is fantastic, and its 100% replaced my use of the curl commandline tool. It does everything you need for testing all manner of network requests. If you develop against any API, you should have this tool. Its a solid app. It rarely crashes. I would recommend this to anyone!

Rested is a really powerful app for doing http requests. Itd be great though if when you selected Save Last Request & Response it also included the HTTP status code. For now I just copy the results on the right hand side. Also, since you can save requests itd be very useful to point Rested at a folder and have it automatically replay the saved requests - maybe even against an expected status code. Thanks!

Well executed utility for making RESTful requests. Its nothing more nor less than what you need to explore http endpoints.