Retriever
Free native Mac API client. The Paw replacement you need
Details
- External ID
- 1257015
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Retrievy
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, API, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
Retriever is a free native Mac API client. Send HTTP requests, organize them in collections, switch environments, and chain one response into the next with {{@Login.body.token}}, no scripts. OAuth 2.0 with auto-refresh, a fast JSON tree, ⌘K for everything, code generation in 7 languages. Imports Postman, cURL and OpenAPI. Everything is plain JSON on your disk: no account, no cloud. Ships with an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and other agents can use your collections.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- native mac api client for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic REST client can be vibe-coded, but building a fully native macOS app in Swift with Paw-level performance, custom tree renderers, local file persistence, and complex OAuth/MCP servers requires solid native development.
What it would actually take: A real app is written natively in Swift/SwiftUI or AppKit using URLSession, local sandboxed file storage, and custom virtualized outline views for rendering massive JSON payloads smoothly. The intricate parts include managing OAuth 2.0 PKCE dance and auto-token refresh threads, dynamic variable substitution engines without scripting vulnerabilities, and an embedded Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #13 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- herdr-gpui · github · 2026-09-20 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CLI-use · hn · 2026-04-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Macky · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Commit+ · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- MacFullStack · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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