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by culi 1335 days ago
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/

1 comments

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.