REST API Client vs Retool Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REST API Client
This tool allows users to send and analyze API requests with customizable parameters, authorization, and body content. It offers robust search and filtering capabilities for managing saved requests, optimized for iPadOS with keyboard support.
- Send and analyze API requests
- Customize query parameters, authorization, and headers
- Support for four body types
- Search and filter requests
- Create, save, update, and delete requests
- Optimized for iPadOS with keyboard support
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Send and analyze requests with detailed response headers and results. Add query parameters, authorization tokens, headers, or body content to tailor every request. Choose from four flexible body types: none, form-data, form-urlencoded, or raw. Search and filter requests by name, URL, HTTP method, or modified date, and organize them by month or year. Create, save, update, or delete requests seamlessly within the REST API Client. Fully optimized for iPadOS, with support for Smart/Magic Keyboard and time-saving keyboard shortcuts.
Retool Mobile
Access custom-built native mobile applications designed for field teams. These apps integrate with your existing databases and APIs, enabling faster business operations. Build and deploy powerful tools for inspections, inventory, asset management, and more.
- Build native mobile apps
- Use SQL and JavaScript
- Pre-built React Native components
- Customizable business logic
- Connect to any database or API
- Field inspection forms
- Inventory and asset management
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Use this app to access existing apps built with Retool Mobile. Retool Mobile is a development platform that equips your field teams with custom native mobile apps that read and write back to any database or API. The result: your business runs faster. Build Mobile Apps, Fast. Use SQL and Javascript to power a robust set of pre-built, drag-and-drop react native components. And if you need more customization, write code anywhere to extend business logic and connect data to create the right fit for your team's needs. Businesses use Retool Mobile for hundreds of use cases including: – Field Inspection forms – Stock and inventory counting – Asset management – Attendance tracking – Barcode scanning This app requires a Retool account. Sign up and build your custom mobile apps at Retool.com. Once you have published apps, your users can find and use them by logging into this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: REST API Client at 4.3 against Retool Mobile's 3.5. Retool Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. REST API Client sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Retool Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
REST API Client holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 24 respectively.
REST API Client ships an update every 3 weeks, Retool Mobile fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | REST API Client | Retool Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 3.5 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #168 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tevon Wallace | Retool, Inc. |
Customer experience
REST API Client
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In-app purchases
REST API Client
- Remove Ads$1.99
Retool Mobile
No in-app purchases
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