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

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.

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 uses zap only when its targets are selected, owned and within the checked boundary; otherwise it removes selected remnants through its own flow.

brew uninstall --cask httpie-desktop

What Mole lists

The display-name support folder is a review row, unselected by default. 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.