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| Kreya | insomnium | |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 11 | |
| 268 | 3,183 | |
| 2.6% | 14.1% | |
| 5.3 | 8.6 | |
| about 2 months ago | 10 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| - | MIT License |
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Kreya
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Bruno
Looks very nice; I've also given up with Postman. gRPC support would probably get Bruno into my daily workflow immediately. I spent a couple hours in Postman trying to get gRPC to work and could not- the .proto files were never used successfully, and I had better experiences with Kreya [0] and grpcui [1].
[0] https://kreya.app/
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Kreya [1] can do that. It is even optimized for it, so that diffs should be perfectly readable.
[1] https://kreya.app
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Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally.
As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.
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Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
There is also https://kreya.app, which has more features, but is closed-source
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?
Given the recent update[0] pushed by the Insomnia team I am now looking for alternatives.
For now the best alternative I've found is Bruno[1]. But sadly it does not support gRPC.
Does anyone have a better solution?
These are some options I've looked into:
- https://hoppscotch.io/
- https://hurl.dev/
- https://recipeui.com/
- https://kreya.app/
- https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
[0] - https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585
[1] - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
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Insomnia REST client now requires an account
If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/
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Best alternative to Postman?
I like Kreya (kreya.app), but I am biased, since I am one of the creators :)
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Milkman (postman alternative) now supports http/3
Have you tried Kreya? While it does not support all of the many features of Postman, it has some innovative features. While also being web-based, it uses the native WebView of the OS, resulting in less RAM-usage than Electron based apps.
- GUI gRPC and REST client (Postman alternative)
- Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman
insomnium
- Ask HN: Alternatives to Postman?
- What do you use insomnia or postman and why ?
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Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
A previous post linked to a privacy-focused fork of Insomnia known as Insomnium here: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium - and soon with local llm support
disclaimer: I'm the maintainer and my day job is fine-tuning llm
p.s. I will always keep insomnium 100% local & FOSS
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Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
I’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium
- Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
- Show HN: Insomnium – 100% local and privacy-focus fork of Insomnia API client
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Ask HN: How do you manage API collections using cURL?
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
(IDK if it meets all your reqs, but check it out)
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Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
and discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582
What are some alternatives?
bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.
bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)
grpc-gateway - gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec
insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Hoppscotch - Open source API development ecosystem.
awesome-api-clients - List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives
grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
grpcui - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman
RecipeUI - Discover, test, and share APIs in seconds
httpyac - Command Line Interface for *.http and *.rest files. Connect with http, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT
apidash - API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia.