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Retriever

A native Mac API client you buy once, for everyone Paw left behind.

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At a glance
  • $19 USD once, early adopter price, then $39
  • macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon
  • Notarized, no account
The short version

What Retriever does

Paw, later RapidAPI for Mac, was discontinued in September 2026, and what was left to move to was a row of Electron apps that want you signed in. Retriever is the other option: a real Mac app written in Swift that sends your requests, keeps them in collections, switches environments, and keeps your work as plain JSON files on your own disk.

It does the daily part quickly. Every method, query and header tables you can also edit as JSON, a body editor that closes your braces, and a response pane that parses big payloads off the main thread and opens a 2,000-line response folded down to 67. Command-K goes anywhere, Command-Return sends, and every shortcut can be rebound.

And it does the parts that used to need scripts. Right-click a value in one response and paste it into the next request as a chain reference. Sign in with OAuth 2.0 once and the token refreshes itself. Let an AI agent drive the same workspace through the built-in MCP server, and watch what it does appear in your sidebar.

In detail

The parts worth knowing about

Not the whole list - the app has more screens than a page like this can usefully hold. These are the decisions that make Retriever different from the last one you tried.

On screen

Retriever, running

A GET request to /auth/me that reads its token from a Login request, with a collection of forty-two DummyJSON requests in the sidebar and the 200 OK user record as a JSON tree on the right
A request, chained from the one before it
A 33 KB products response from dummyjson.com shown as a tree folded to 67 of 2,107 lines, each product collapsed to a preview of its id, title, description and price
Two thousand lines, folded to what you need
The Command-K palette over the app, listing requests by name with their collection, folder and path, including chained paths such as /posts/user/{{@Login.body.id}}
Command-K to any request
The Generate Code sheet with Swift selected among cURL, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Go and HTTPie, showing a URLSession login request with its JSON body filled in
Any request as runnable code
What it costs

Pricing

The early adopter price will rise to $39 USD, still paid once; what you buy at $19 stays yours. Checkout is through Polar. The app checks the key once a day and keeps working offline for 30 days after the last check.

Before you start

What you need

Mac
macOS 15 or later
Processor
Apple silicon
Latest version
0.4.0
Where it comes from
A 3 MB disk image from its own site, signed and notarized by Apple
Account
None, ever
Your data
Plain JSON in ~/Library/Application Support/Retriever. Nothing leaves your Mac except the requests you send and a daily licence check with Polar.
Not yet
A cookie jar, GraphQL introspection, WebSockets and gRPC
Common questions

Questions about Retriever

How much does Retriever cost?

$19 USD, paid once, at the early adopter price; later it will cost $39 USD, still paid once. There is no subscription, and checkout is through Polar.

What does Retriever run on?

macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon. It is a 3 MB disk image from its own site, signed and notarized by Apple.

Can I move my Paw projects to it?

Yes. Export a Postman collection from Paw, open it in Retriever and pick an environment. It also imports cURL, Postman environments, OpenAPI 3 and Swagger 2.

Where is my data?

In plain JSON files in ~/Library/Application Support/Retriever on your Mac. There is no account, and nothing is sent anywhere except the requests you send and a daily licence check with Polar.
$19 once, early adopter price

Bring your Paw projects over while they still open.

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