Using Yaak at Work

Table of Contents

• 🔐 Secure and private by design
• 👥 Built for collaboration
• 🧩 Deployment & IT Compatibility
• 🧾 Licensing and Team Management
• 🛡️ Security overview
• 📊 Comparison to other tools
• 💁🏼‍♂️ Common questions
• 🏁 Ready to bring Yaak to your team?

Yaak is a local-first API client that focuses on security, ease of use, and collaboration (using Git). Thousands of developers trust Yaak every day to interact with APIs securely, without syncing their workspaces to a cloud service.

If you’re evaluating Yaak for your company or team, this page covers everything you need to know about how it fits into professional environments—from pricing to privacy and compliance.

🔐 Secure and private by design

Unlike other API clients, Yaak works offline, stores data locally, includes no telemetry or 3rd-party tracking libraries, and is 100% open source, making it easy to reason about security and compliance.

• Privacy: App data is stored locally. No cloud accounts. No telemetry.
• Security: Local data. Optionally, encrypt secrets for secure collaboration.
• Code transparency: 100% open source and auditable.
• Predictable cost: Annual or one-time pricing, no surprise cloud fees.
• Fast onboarding: Import from Postman, Insomnia, and other tools.
• Developer friendly: Lightweight, Git-friendly, and built for real workflows.

👥 Built for collaboration

Yaak can optionally sync requests and environments to a folder on your local machine, which enables collaboration via its built-in Git integration.

Yaak can encrypt sensitive values before they are saved or synced. The OS keychain protects the encryption keys; encrypted values stay with your workspace data. Share the workspace key separately with teammates who need to decrypt them. See Secrets Encryption for setup.

🧩 Deployment & IT Compatibility

Yaak is a desktop application with no servers, agents, or background daemons required. Yaak’s core API workflows work offline. Activating and validating a paid license requires access to license.yaak.app.

• No administrator privileges required to run.
• Automatic updates can be disabled for controlled environments.
• Network access: API requests go directly to your servers, or through a configured proxy. The app also connects to Yaak’s servers for update and notification checks (both can be disabled), plugin directory and plugin update checks, and license activation and checks. Security and Privacy lists each one.
• Compatible with MDM tools for silent installs and version pinning.

🧾 Licensing and Team Management

Team administrators can manage seats and billing from the Yaak dashboard.

• Add or remove team members anytime.
• Invite users in bulk, by email.
• Inactive members do not take up a seat.
• Up to 3 devices per seat

🛡️ Security overview

Yaak’s security model is intentionally simple:

• Data residency: All data is stored locally on the user’s machine.
• Encryption: Optional workspace encryption protects selected values, such as secrets and tokens, with keys protected by the OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Vault, or Linux Secret Service).
• No telemetry: Yaak doesn’t send workspace data to Yaak’s servers. Update, notification, plugin, and license checks carry only operational metadata, such as app version and license status.
• Transparency: Full source code is public for audit and review.

📊 Comparison to other tools

💁🏼‍♂️ Common questions

Can we use Yaak for free?
A license is required to use Yaak for commercial use (for work or revenue-generating activities).

Is there a trial period? A 30-day free trial is available, and is automatically activated by downloading and launching the app. Please reach out to sales@yaak.app if you need more time.

Is Yaak GDPR or SOC2 compliant?
Yaak doesn’t store or sync workspace data in the cloud, and the desktop app doesn’t send requests, responses, or environment values to Yaak’s servers. The operational metadata it does send is described in the Privacy Policy, so you can review it against your own requirements.

Can we self-host it?
No hosting is required. Yaak runs on your local machine.

Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Please email sales@yaak.app to discuss purchasing options.

What happens if we stop paying?
Annual subscriptions include a lifetime fallback license: you can keep using the last version released during your paid term for commercial work, without updates or support. The one-time Individual lifetime license includes future updates.

🏁 Ready to bring Yaak to your team?

Yaak is trusted by thousands of developers worldwide.
It’s local, transparent, and backed by a simple license — no vendor lock-in, no surprise bills.

📧 Contact: sales@yaak.app
🌐 Learn more: yaak.app/pricing