insomnium VS Kreya

A previous post linked to a privacy-focused fork of Insomnia known as Insomnium here: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

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

I’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

(IDK if it meets all your reqs, but check it out)

There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

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/

Kreya [1] can do that. It is even optimized for it, so that diffs should be perfectly readable.

[1] https://kreya.app

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.

There is also https://kreya.app, which has more features, but is closed-source

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

If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/

I like Kreya (kreya.app), but I am biased, since I am one of the creators :)

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.