High-performance and memory-efficient
NativeRest desktop application uses Electron, Chromium, Node.js and JavaScript frameworks at all. NativeRest is a 100% native application, compiled for a variety of platforms. , NativeRest starts up much faster and uses very little memory and CPU. Some popular Electron-based REST clients use more than 60 times more RAM. NativeRest has a very fast GUI with almost no lag.
Working in offline mode
NativeRest can be used without an internet connection. You can choose to use only local workspaces or create additional cloud workspaces. When using local workspaces, all your collections, environments, and requests are stored only on your computer. When working as a team, you can easily create personal clouds and team cloud workspaces.
Preconfigured proxy server
Use a high-performance pre-configured proxy server from NativeRest. The proxy server acts as an intermediary between the user and the web server. The proxy server uses a different IP address for the user and hides the real address from the web server for the user. You can use a custom proxy configuration and configure NativeRest when sending requests.
Easy test
NativeRest provides a way to test your API very easily. You can use a single-line test to test the status, time, body, headers, and cookies of your response. You can use a nice and well-written list of test code snippets to write your tests for those status, time, body, headers, and cookies responses. These snippets are not available in the test window at all.
Easily organize your requests
NativeRest combines a very easy-to-use interface with many advanced features like environment variables, authentication helpers, and code generation. It all starts here. Organize all your requests to reflect your workflow or your API data model. Group and order your API requests however your heart desires.
Manage multiple environments
NativeRest has a powerful ability to layer variables. You can use system, global, workspace, and environment variable layers. NativeRest uses built-in libraries to create different types of samples and different types of data.. These include random names, addresses, email addresses, and more. You can use these predefined variables multiple times to return different values for each request.
Generating device snippets
You can create code snippets in a variety of languages and frameworks within NativeRest. Over fifteen different languages: C, C#, cURL, Go, HTTP, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Node.js, PHP, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Shell, Swift, and many more.
Custom Http Methods
In addition to the standard HTTP methods, NativeRest allows you to add custom HTTP methods in different colors. You can specify the methods in the list in the order you need and also exclude standard methods that you don’t need.
Full-featured portable version
NativeRest is also available in a portable version. The portable version is distributed as a single executable file and does not require any administrator privileges. All features are available in the portable version. The file size is about 8 MB. You can download one of the portable versions from the download page.
Import and export data
You can import a lot of data from other REST clients like Postman, Insomnia. You can migrate without any loss of previously created collections, environments and variables. It also supports a lot of data export. NativeRest export file format is fully compatible with most popular REST API clients.
Multilingual user interface
NativeRest is a multilingual HTTP client that supports more than one language than NativeRest. Currently, NativeRest supports a total of 10 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. NativeRest uses the system language by default. You can change the language beforehand by going to the settings without restarting the app.
Light and dark themes
NativeRest supports a light and dark theme for all components and windows. NativeRest uses this theme by default. However, you can manually choose a light or dark theme for windows from the settings very easily. Also, this dark theme is supported by the NativeRest installer.
