Pico API is a lightweight HTTP client and REST API testing tool for Chrome. Send requests, debug APIs, watch streaming responses live, and manage environments ā all locally in your browser.
I'm the maker. The story: one day I just wanted to send a GET request, and my API client wanted me to log in first ā again ā and sync something to the cloud. So I built the tool I actually wanted: one that opens in a browser tab and gets out of the way.
What's inside:
⢠Live streaming ā SSE and chunked responses render chunk by chunk as they arrive (great for debugging streaming/AI endpoints)
⢠Pre/post scripts with a Postman-style pm API, sandboxed away from the page
⢠cURL / OpenAPI / ApiFox import, copy any request as cURL
⢠Environment variables, collections, history, āK command palette
⢠Local-first: everything in IndexedDB, zero analytics
What it deliberately doesn't have: teams, cloud sync, or a collection runner. It's a single-user tool and probably stays that way.
If you test APIs daily, I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback ā especially on what's missing from your workflow.