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KafkaTopical

The Fast, Easy Apache Kafka™ Client, for Engineers and Administrators
Available natively on macOS, Windows and Linux
   Download v0.0.9 stable
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It's fast, lightweight & portable — and it's available on all major operating systems. It's just one file, so USB-stick friendly!

Easy & Powerful

KafkaTopical is designed for easy, fast, enjoyable use. It only takes a few clicks before you're exploring your Kafka clusters. No web servers, configuration files, clunky installation, Docker, or funky licensing!

Seamlessly create/edit/delete/clear topics, produce messages, advanced search with text, offset, and date range criteria, tweak offsets, delete consumers, browse/create/update schemas. Easily manage access control lists (ACLs). View your data a variety of ways.

Troubleshoot issues with a clear view into broker, topic, and consumer configuration, with live statistics such as partition skew, out-of-sync replicas, consumer lag, etc.

Native for Your System

KafkaTopical is natively-built for macOS, Windows and Linux. It loads fast, it responds quickly, and it is convenient.

    KafkaTopical on macOS is a native and familiar experience. With a sleek and simple interface, KafkaTopical meets Apple UI standards, all while using native macOS features. KafkaTopical is compatible with ARM (Apple Silicon) or x86 Apple machines!

    The KafkaTopical Windows UI is fully Windows 7/10/11 ready, but will work on older versions of Windows too.

    On Linux, KafkaTopical has been carefully crafted to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and features.

Configuration & Security

KafkaTopical is fully compatible with cloud platforms like Confluent Cloud, Aiven, etc.

Behind a proxy? Don't want to see help info pop-ups? Prefer light theme? Need to import custom certs? Want to export your configuration? KafkaTopical is configurable without getting in your way.

Easily configure and test connections to complex cluster configurations, with mTLS and SASL, etc.

For SSL-secured clusters, KafkaTopical supports all common key types, for your convenience: JKS (Java Keystore), X.509 (i.e., CRT / PEM), or P12 (i.e., PFX, PKCS12).

Out-of-the-box, KafkaTopical handles Confluent Schema Registry and the Protobuf, JSON Schema, and Avro formats and all compression types. Manage all of your schemas with ease.

KafkaTopical helps you view, define and manage ACLs for consumers, producers, and Kafka Streams applications.

Freely Available &
Community-Focused

KafkaTopical is already a powerful tool to have in your arsenal, but it is in its infancy. Through your adoption and feedback, KafkaTopical will evolve into the most useful, easy-to-use Kafka client — for the occasional-use engineer whom simply uses Kafka as part of a development stack, to the full-time Kafka administrator.

Our engineering team will take all feedback on board to build new features and functionality, quickly and reliably.

Download Now

Download now and enjoy the simplicity and power of KafkaTopical.

   Download v0.0.9 stable