REST API Client vs Requesta
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.
Requesta
This app allows users to send HTTP requests and examine server responses. It's a free, lightweight tool for API testing, offering features like request customization and detailed response inspection.
- Set request headers, method, and scheme
- Inspect server response details (headers, body, status code)
- View response payload size and duration
- Access request history and repeat requests
- View images and PDFs in response
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Requesta is a free lightweight utility app that lets you make HTTP requests and check out server responses. Ideally for API testing! Some features you will use: • Setting request headers, method and scheme • Inspecting server response: headers, body, status code, payload size, duration etc • See history and repeat requests in light speed • See images and PDFs in response
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Requesta at 5.0 against REST API Client's 4.3. Requesta also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). REST API Client's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). On price 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. Requesta asks for nothing beyond the download.
Requesta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: REST API Client has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | REST API Client | Requesta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tevon Wallace | Roman Mirzoyan |
Customer experience
REST API Client
Requesta
In-app purchases
REST API Client
- Remove Ads$1.99
Requesta
No in-app purchases
