Bruno AlternativesAPI & HTTP Clients like Bruno

Bruno is described as 'Lightweight open source API client for testing endpoints, saving requests as plain text files, offline use, git-compatible collaboration, and privacy-focused storage' and is a popular API Client in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Bruno for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Bruno alternative is Postman, which is free. Other great apps like Bruno are Insomnia REST Client, Yaak, Insomnium and ApiArk.

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  1. Postman icon
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    Postman is a collaborative platform for API development that provides extensive tools for designing, testing, and documenting APIs. It allows API verification through requests, automated testing via Collection Runner, and offers both free and paid plans, catering to individuals and teams.

    121 Postman alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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  2. A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

    106 Insomnia REST Client alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  3. Yaak icon
     22 likes

    The API client for modern developers. Call REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs from a simple and intuitive app.

    80 Yaak alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  4. Insomnium icon
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    Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  5. ApiArk icon
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    ApiArk is a local-first API client built with Tauri v2 and Rust. No login, no cloud, no telemetry. Supports REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, SSE and MQTT from one interface. Collections are stored as plain YAML files on your filesystem, fully git-diffable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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    • Mac
    • BA flagBosnia & Herzegovina
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  6. HTTP client for GNOME featuring GTK 4 UI, organized project management, request history, secure environment variables, JavaScript scripts for preprocessing, export in cURL and more formats, syntax-highlighted response viewing, and advanced request customization.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • GNOME
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  7. RapidAPI for Mac (formerly Paw) is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native macOS interface to compose requests, inspect server responses, generate client code and export API definitions.

    65 RapidAPI for Mac alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. Free, open source, git-native API client. A local-first, account-free Postman alternative with a built-in MCP server, SOAP/GraphQL, request chaining and performance runs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  9. soapUI icon
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    Eviware, the maker of soapUI, Web Service Testing Leader

    soapUI is a tool for functional testing, mainly of web services like SOAP based web services and RESTful web services, but also HTTP based services and JMS Services as well as databases. soapUI is an open source and compl.

    89 soapUI alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  10. API testing tool. Which allows web developers to create and test custom HTTP requests.

    78 Advanced REST Client alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Chrome OS
    • AppImageHub
    • Google Chrome
    • Chromium
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  11. Voiden.md icon
     7 likes

    Voiden.md is an offline-first, Git-native API workspace that unifies specs, docs, tests, and mocks using programmable Markdown blocks. Build APIs the way you actually work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  12. Hurl icon
     7 likes

    Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can capture values, evaluate queries on headers and body response. It is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.

    46 Hurl alternatives

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