If you are a developer doesn’t matter if you are Junior, Medior, Senior, or whatever label your company uses. Sooner or later, you have to use a REST API Client for simple or complex tests, and here we have a top 4 rest API clients, have a look and enjoy it!

Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs.

SoapUI is an open-source web service testing application for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and representational state transfers (REST). Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing. A commercial version, SoapUI Pro, which mainly focuses on features designed to enhance productivity, was also developed by Eviware Software AB. In 2011, SmartBear Software acquired Eviware. This is a good tool for developers and testers looking to accelerate their ability to deliver APIs!

Pronounced aitch-tee-tee-pie is a command-line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. HTTPie is designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs & HTTP servers. The http & https commands allow for creating and sending arbitrary HTTP requests. They use simple and natural syntax and provide formatted and colorized output.

cURL (standard for Client URL) is free and open source software and exists thanks to thousands of contributors. The curl project follows well established open source best practices. This is the oldest tool from this list and can be used not only to interact with APIS, but also many other protocols such LDAP, SMTP, TELNET etc.