Requestly is a lightweight, desktop‑only API client that lets developers and QA teams compose, organize, and execute HTTP and GraphQL requests locally, ensuring privacy without mandatory logins. It supports collections, environment variables, pre‑request and post‑response JavaScript scripting, and imports from formats like Postman and OpenAPI, while its browser extension enables real‑time request interception, mocking, and custom script injection for debugging.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Developers and QA teams often need to send API requests, validate responses, and mock endpoints, but existing tools can be heavyweight, require cloud accounts, or lack seamless collaboration and privacy controls.
Solution
Requestly provides a lightweight, desktop‑only API client that lets users compose, organize, and execute HTTP and GraphQL requests without any mandatory login, keeping all data local for privacy. Users can group requests into collections, switch environments with variables, and automate validation through pre‑request and post‑response JavaScript scripts. The client also supports importing from Postman, OpenAPI, cURL, HAR, and other formats, enabling quick migration. Collaboration is facilitated via shared team workspaces and Git‑style syncing, while a complementary Chrome extension offers real‑time request/response interception, mocking, and custom script injection for frontend debugging.
Target Audience
Primary users are backend developers, frontend engineers, and QA teams who need fast, private API testing, mocking, and debugging capabilities, as well as DevOps groups requiring collaborative API workspaces.
Features
- Desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux with no required account; all data stored locally
- Collections and folder hierarchy to organize APIs, plus environment variables for dev/stage/prod switching
- Built‑in pre‑request and post‑response JavaScript scripting with rq API and Chai assertions for automated testing
- Import/export support for Postman, OpenAPI, cURL, HAR, Bruno and JSON files
- GraphQL schema introspection, auto‑completion, and operation‑name filtering for precise mocking
- Chrome/Edge/Firefox extension to intercept, modify, redirect, and mock HTTP/GraphQL traffic in the browser
- Team workspaces with Git‑style sync, role‑based access, SSO, and SOC‑II compliance for enterprise security