Request Eagle

A native, open-source API client for macOS, Windows and Linux: a Postman alternative written in Rust that keeps requests as Git-friendly TOML files on your disk, with scripts, Vim mode, an agent panel for Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, and a CLI for agents.

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Features

• A real desktop app with no web view, built in Rust on GPUI. It answers the first keystroke 0.36 s after launch; Postman takes 12 times as long.
• Requests are TOML files on your disk. Keep a collection in an api folder inside your project and review it with your code.
• HTTP, gRPC and WebSocket.
• Pre-request and post-response JavaScript with the pm API, and a Collection Runner that replays a collection for every row of a CSV or JSON file.
• Flows chain saved requests on a canvas, with branches and loops.
• Commit, pull and push collections without leaving the app.
• Imports Postman collections and environments, OpenAPI documents and cURL commands.
• Vim mode, eleven theme families and interface sizes from 12 to 24 px.
• An agent panel for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, and a CLI that lets agents run saved requests without the app.

Compared with Postman, Bruno and Yaak

	Request Eagle	Postman	Bruno	Yaak
Runs on	Native GPUI, no web view	Electron	Electron	Tauri web view
Open source	MIT or Apache 2.0	No	MIT	MIT
Requests stored as	TOML files	Cloud workspace, or files since Postman 12	.bru files	YAML files
Account	None	Needed for most features	None	None
Price	Free	Free for one user; teams from $19 per user per month	Free; Pro from $6 per user per month	Free for personal use; $79 per year for work

Prices checked in October 2026.

Guides

• Request scripts
• Collection Runner
• Flows
• Git
• Agent panel
• CLI for agents

Install

Get the macOS disk image, the Windows installer or the Debian package from the downloads page. Every build checks for new versions; the macOS app installs them in place.

Build from source

Install Rust, plus the Xcode command-line tools on macOS. On Linux, install a C/C++ toolchain, CMake, make, pkg-config, and the development libraries for Fontconfig, FreeType, X11, Wayland, and xkbcommon.

git clone https://github.com/gregor-tokarev/request-eagle.git
cd request-eagle
make run

License

Request Eagle is available under the MIT or Apache 2.0 license, at your option.