Built for power users who don't trust the cloud
No premium tier. No login wall. Every feature below ships in the same AGPL-3.0 binary.
An AI sidebar that actually drives the application for you.
Configure your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Vertex AI, Azure, Grok, or local Ollama key. Ask the assistant to "create a login request", "run a load test", or "add auth headers" and watch it autonomously execute actions on your behalf.
A tabbed workbench that respects your screen.
Build requests with full keyboard control: ⌘ Enter to send, ⌘ S to save,
switchable bottom or right-column response layout, in-response text search, and per-tab history that
survives restart.
Stash & Realms — environments without the footguns.
Define {{baseUrl}}, {{token}}, anything once in the Global
stash, then overlay per-realm overrides (dev, staging, prod) on top.
Rules — declarative response → variable capture.
Pull a JSON path or response header out of one response and bind it to {{var}} for every
other endpoint in the library. No JavaScript runtime, no test sandbox, no surprise side effects.
Inheritance & Overrides — set it at the library, forget the rest.
Authentication, common headers, and proxy config defined at the library or shelf level cascade down to every nested endpoint. Override only where you need to.
Library Runner — sequence mode and parallel load tests.
Drag-order a list of saved endpoints, drive them with a CSV or JSON dataset, and run them once (Sequence) or fan them out across N concurrent virtual users (Load) for as long as you like.
Local Mock Servers — every library is one click from localhost.
Authoring a mock response is part of the same editor flow — set the status, headers, and JSON body, flip the switch, hit Start, and your library is serving on the port you chose. Stash variables work inside mock bodies too.
Paste a .proto. ForgeReq does the rest.
The proto compiler runs locally. Service and method dropdowns populate the moment your schema parses;
metadata, Bearer / Basic auth, and {{var}} interpolation all work the same as on HTTP.
Produce, consume, and tail topics in real time.
Specify brokers, pick a topic, switch between Produce and Consume. Consumer mode streams messages into a live table view with offset, partition, and parsed JSON payload.
SOAP that doesn't feel like 2007.
Drop in a WSDL URL — ForgeReq parses it for services, ports, and operations. One click on Generate XML Payload gives you a complete envelope, pre-filled with namespaces and parameter placeholders.
Client Certificates pinned by host — even over a proxy.
A global registry of certs bound to host (exact or wildcard) and optional port. PEM and PFX/P12 both supported, with masked passphrase fields. Most-specific binding wins, automatically.
Vault & Backup — move machines without uploading anything.
Settings → Vault & Backup → export. You choose a passphrase, you get a .rfvault
file. Import on the new machine with the same passphrase — merge or replace.
