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# Awesome API Clients



Awesome Postman alternatives and Awesome Insomnia alternatives ([why?](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/16twfkr/kong_pulls_a_postman_causing_exodus_from_insomnia/)).



Criteria: open-source, more than 200 stars and 2 contributors.



If you wish to contribute: [start a pull request](https://github.com/stepci/awesome-api-clients/pulls)



## Web-Based



- [Restfox](https://restfox.dev) ([repo](https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox)) - Offline-first web HTTP client

- [Hoppscotch](https://hoppscotch.io) ([repo](https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch)) - Open source API development ecosystem

- [Firecamp](https://firecamp.io) ([repo](https://github.com/firecamp-dev/firecamp)) - Open Source Postman Alternative inspired by VS Code DX

- [RecipeUI](https://recipeui.com) ([repo](https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI)) - RecipeUI is the Postman alternative with type safety built in

- [gRPC UI](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui) - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman

- [Yaade](https://docs.yaade.io) ([repo](https://github.com/EsperoTech/yaade)) - Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment

- [Prestige](https://prestige.dev) ([repo](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige)) - A text-based in-browser HTTP client, an interface-less Postman alternative



## Desktop



- [Bruno](https://usebruno.com) ([repo](https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)) - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing APIs

- [Yaak](https://yaak.app) ([repo](https://github.com/yaakapp/app)) - The most intuitive desktop API client

- [API Dash](https://github.com/foss42/apidash) - API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client

- [ezy](https://www.getezy.dev) ([repo](https://github.com/getezy/ezy)) - GUI client for gRPC/gRPC-Web

- [BloomRPC](https://github.com/bloomrpc/bloomrpc) - (unmaintained) The missing GUI Client for gRPC services

- [Milkman](https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman) - An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

- [Insomnium](https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium) - (unmaintained) Insomnium is a 100% local and privacy-focus open-source API client (based on Insomnia)

- [Pororoca](https://pororoca.io) ([repo](https://github.com/alexandrehtrb/Pororoca)) - A HTTP inspection tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, an alternative to Postman

- [Nightingale REST Client](https://nightingale.rest/) ([repo](https://github.com/jenius-apps/nightingale-rest-api-client)) - A modern, open-source, resource-efficient REST API client for Windows



## IDE



- [VS Code REST Client](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client) ([repo](https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient)) - Send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code

- [RESTClient](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/) - A Firefox debugger for RESTful web services

- [restclient.el](https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el) - HTTP REST client tool for emacs

- [verb](https://github.com/federicotdn/verb) - Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs

- [rest.nvim](https://github.com/rest-nvim/rest.nvim) - A fast Neovim http client written in Lua



## CLI



- [curl](https://curl.se) ([repo](https://github.com/curl/curl)) - Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs (since 1998)

- [HTTPie](https://httpie.io/cli) ([repo](https://github.com/httpie/cli)) - HTTPie CLI: human-friendly HTTP client for the API era

- [grpcurl](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl) - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

- [xh](https://github.com/ducaale/xh) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

- [posting](https://github.com/darrenburns/posting) - The modern API client that lives in your terminal

- [curlie](https://github.com/rs/curlie) - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie

- [HttpRepl](https://github.com/dotnet/HttpRepl) - Lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported

- [ain](https://github.com/jonaslu/ain) - A HTTP API client for the terminal, uses curl, wget or httpie to make the actual calls

- [evans](https://github.com/ktr0731/evans) - Evans: more expressive universal gRPC client

- [httpYac](https://httpyac.github.io/) ([repo](https://github.com/anweber/httpyac)) - Yet another REST client to send REST, SOAP, GraphQL and gRPC requests

- [ATAC](https://atac.julien-cpsn.com/) ([repo](https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC)) - A simple postman like API client for terminal



## Automated Testing



- [Step CI](https://stepci.com) ([repo](https://github.com/stepci/stepci)) - Open-source API Test Automation framework

- [Hurl](https://hurl.dev) ([repo](https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl)) - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

- [Karate](https://karatelabs.github.io/karate/) ([repo](https://github.com/karatelabs/karate)) - Test Automation Made Simple

- [Tavern](https://taverntesting.github.io) ([repo](https://github.com/taverntesting/tavern)) - Automated RESTful API testing

- [Venom](https://github.com/ovh/venom) - Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency

- [pyresttest](https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest) - Python Rest Testing

- [runn](https://github.com/k1LoW/runn) - runn is a package/tool for running operations following a scenario

- [scenarigo](https://github.com/zoncoen/scenarigo) - An end-to-end scenario testing tool for HTTP/gRPC server

- [Schemathesis](https://schemathesis.readthedocs.io/) ([repo](https://github.com/schemathesis/schemathesis)) - Specification-centric API testing tool for Open API and GraphQL-based applications

- [Dredd](https://github.com/apiaryio/dredd) - Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool

- [abao](https://github.com/cybertk/abao) - REST API automated testing tool based on RAML

- [HttpRunner](https://httprunner.com/httprunner/) ([repo](https://github.com/httprunner/httprunner))

- [k6](https://k6.io) ([repo](https://github.com/grafana/k6)) - A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

- [Artillery](https://artillery.io) ([repo](https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery)) - Load testing at cloud-scale