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by jicea 1334 days ago
There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time):

Restfox https://restfox.dev/

bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/

Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/

HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

Hurl https://hurl.dev

Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

Kreya https://kreya.app

Milkman https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman

Nap https://github.com/davesheldon/nap

Paw https://paw.cloud

restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

REST Client https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

Socketfox https://socketfox.dev

Step CI https://stepci.com

vim-http-client https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client

vscode-restclient https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

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So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be

HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

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You can find more here: https://alternativeto.net/software/postman/

Thanks for the shoutout. I am the author of Bruno :)

A unique things that seperates bruno from the rest is that it is a "local first" api client.

The collections get stored as folders and files on your local files system (imagine git repo), thereby allowing the developers to use the version control of their choice.

I am only an occasional users, but for me the Firefox Plugin "RESTClient" gets the job done:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/restclient

Not sure how this compares to the more sophisticated tools presented here.

Saved for the next time I need to test some REST! Thank you!