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Kafka developers, backend engineers, data engineers, and teams building or debugging event-driven applications.
About Kafma
Kafma is a desktop Kafka GUI client and IDE for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It keeps the consume–inspect–produce loop in one workspace, helping developers browse topics, inspect records, edit payloads, and produce messages without switching views.
Kafma automatically decodes Avro and Protobuf, supports replaying and forwarding messages, and lets you draft, diff, and validate schemas before publishing. You can also manage topics and consumer groups, diagnose lag, and reset offsets.
Kafma Pro can clone remote topics—with their configurations, schemas, and a selected range of messages—into a local cluster for testing, with optional field masking. Kafma works with self-hosted Kafka, Confluent Cloud, and Amazon MSK. A Free plan is available.
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Starting Price:
$299/year/user
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Karma IO LLC
Founded: 2026
United States
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