Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?

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  • RecipeUI

    Discontinued Discover, test, and share APIs in seconds

  • 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

  • Kreya

    Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.

  • 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

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Postwoman

    👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

  • 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

  • insomnium

    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

  • I'm going to start maintaining a fork of Insomnia that is designed to be 100% local: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

  • bruno

    Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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