--- title: Your API client is stuck in potato mode. Mine has a 4x4... description: Probe is a desktop API client for macOS, Windows, and Linux that lets you split panes into a grid (up to 16) instead of viewing one request at a time. Panes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-api-client-is-stuck-in-potato-mode-mine-has-a-4x4-grid--tfhpbpzht twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your API client is stuck in potato mode. Mine has a 4x4 grid. | daily.dev og:description: Probe is a desktop API client for macOS, Windows, and Linux that lets you split panes into a grid (up to 16) instead of viewing one request at a time. Panes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-api-client-is-stuck-in-potato-mode-mine-has-a-4x4-grid--tfhpbpzht og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tFhpBPzhT.png og:image:alt: Your API client is stuck in potato mode. Mine has a 4x4 grid. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your API client is stuck in potato mode. Mine has a 4x4 grid. **[Probe](https://daily.dev/sources/probe)** · [@vladutteodor18](https://daily.dev/vladutteodor18) · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Probe is a desktop API client for macOS, Windows, and Linux that lets you split panes into a grid (up to 16) instead of viewing one request at a time. Panes share variables so one pane can read another's response, and dividers include a diff button to compare responses side by side, aimed at multi-step debugging workflows like create-then-verify sequences. ## Content Most API clients show you one request at a time. On a monitor the size of a small television. Bold choice. The thing is, debugging is never one request. It is the create, then the read to check it actually landed, then the one coming back 500. Three things, one problem, and you spend the whole time clicking between them trying to remember what the last response said. So Probe splits. Drag a tab to the edge of a pane and it splits. Four columns, four panes each, sixteen if you are feeling brave.  Yes, you could open two windows. But they do not know each other exists. Panes share your variables, one pane can read the response of the pane before it, and every divider has a button that diffs the two responses side by side. Two windows just gives you two places to lose track of things. Sixteen is the limit, not the advice. Past six they get too small to read and you are just showing off. The grid is there so the layout matches the work. Probe is a desktop API client for macOS, Windows and Linux. 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