Install the extension and start sending requests. No site account, no licence key, no cloud sync.
The free tier here is not a 14-day trial and not a watermarked demo. It is a permanent tier covering request sending, collections, environments and the full import pipeline. Below: what is included, where the line is, and why the absence of an account is more than a convenience.
Across this category, signing in to the vendor has quietly become a condition of using collections. Postman removed the offline Scratch Pad entirely on 15 September 2023: the lightweight client starts without signing in, but collections and environments require an account. Insomnia 8.0 also demanded an account and only partly reversed that afterwards.
For some work this is a blocker rather than an annoyance: an air-gapped test environment, requests carrying production tokens, a policy that forbids pushing data to third-party services, or a contractor who is not allowed to create accounts on a client behalf.
In the PolyApiIDE free tier no site account is needed to install, to send requests, or to keep collections. Server-side features use a technical client_id, which is a credential for an integration rather than a user profile.
{{var}} and {var} substitution in URLs, headers and request bodies.So there are no surprises, these need a paid tier:
Collections, environments and tokens are kept in the browser local storage on your machine. The extension does not sync them to a server in the background. Anything that leaves does so because you exported a file, built a patch or took a snapshot.
The practical consequence: delete the browser profile and the data goes with it. If your collections matter, export them the way you would back up any other local file.
No. It is permanent and needs no key.
Not for the free tier. An email is only needed if you buy a paid tier or request a demo key: it is bound to the licence and used for key recovery.
The client itself does — it runs in the browser. Internet access is only needed for your requests to reach the API. Requests to services on your local network work without any outbound access.
The free tier is a permanent baseline. The demo key is a 24-hour key that unlocks the paid features in full: QA, load, reports. One demo key per email address.
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