How to Uninstall HTTPie on Mac
Keep any HTTPie Desktop collections or request history you need before removal. The recorded test was unsigned-in and did not exercise a real API, so it cannot confirm cloud restoration or local request retention. The recorded test used a direct download, not a Homebrew installation.
Remove the app and inspect its data
Before quitting, right-click each wanted space or collection and choose Export, saving its JSON outside HTTPie. For drafts and local-only environments, enable Show private items in the space export dialog and include the wanted items. Verify the file; keep exports containing authentication in a private location.
Quit HTTPie and move HTTPie.app from Applications to Trash. Treat the separate HTTPie CLI, if installed, as its own package rather than deleting it by name. The support folder held 1.4 MB in this first-run test. Inspect it before deleting any local request state; the cask also lists logs and preferences. Vendor guidance.
After quitting, copy wanted local state from the paths below to an independent private backup outside the removal folders and verify it. In Finder, press Shift + Command + G to open each path or its parent, then move only existing unneeded app-specific items to the Trash. Keep shared parents and other apps' files:
~/Library/Application Support/HTTPie~/Library/Logs/HTTPie~/Library/Preferences/io.httpie.desktop.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/io.httpie.desktop.savedState
Check the result
ls -ld ~/Library/'Application Support'/HTTPie ~/Library/Preferences/io.httpie.desktop.plist
Run this read-only check after quitting the app. A printed path still exists; “No such file or directory” means that path is absent, while a permission error needs its own investigation.
If you installed it with Homebrew
The Homebrew cask has a zap list that includes Application Support/HTTPie, logs and preferences; zap does not target an independently installed CLI. Run the command below without --zap if you want to keep those files and inspect them separately. A manual --zap follows the whole cask list regardless of Mole’s checkboxes. Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or a removal scope it cannot verify; selected remnants still follow Mole's own removal flow.
brew uninstall --cask httpie-desktop
What Mole lists
With Remove data and settings with apps off, the listed display-name support row starts unchecked. With it on, an eligible existing own unshared row may start checked; verify exports and uncheck local request data you want to keep. Exact bundle-ID preferences are normally selected. Mole does not treat a separately installed CLI as this desktop bundle.
What this test covered
The official HTTPie Desktop 2025.2.0 package was removed on September 20, 2026. The 1.4 MB support folder remained after the review click missed its target. There was no sign-in or API request.