Insomnia
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Insomnia is what a lot of developers switched to when Postman required mandatory cloud sync and login. It's cleaner, works offline by default, and until Kong acquired it and added... mandatory cloud sync. Then everyone switched to Bruno. The API client cycle of life. Design-wise though, Insomnia's UI is genuinely nicer than Postman.
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Bruno
Bruno said 'what if your API collection was just files in your git repo?' Collections are stored as .
Hoppscotch
Hoppscotch is what happens when someone says 'what if Postman just lived in your browser tab?' It's fast, open-source, and has no login requirement.
Postman
Postman is the GUI way to talk to APIs. Instead of crafting curl commands, you have a nice interface where you set the URL, headers, body, and hit Send.