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Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2026
Desktop
- EasyPostman (⭐580) - An open-source API debugging and performance testing tool inspired by Postman and a simplified JMeter
Feb 02 - Feb 08, 2026
Desktop
- Voiden (repo (⭐596)) - Local, file-based, keyboard-first API client using executable Markdown, designed for version-controlled workflows (no sign up required)
CLI
- Slumber (repo (⭐864)) - A terminal-based HTTP/REST client, with TUI and CLI usage mods
Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2025
IDE
- resterm (⭐1.4k) - Terminal REST/Graphql/gRPC client written in Go.
Oct 06 - Oct 12, 2025
CLI
- Better Curl Saul (⭐290) - Workspace-based HTTP client with interactive variable prompting and TOML configuration
Feb 24 - Mar 02, 2025
Desktop
- Cartero (repo (⭐948)) - A native, lightweight, multiplatform and free HTTP client
Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2025
Desktop
- Requestly (repo (⭐6.4k)) - A desktop app with API Client, API Mocking & API Interception and Modification capabilities.
Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2024
IDE
- kulala.nvim (⭐1.9k) - A minimal REST-Client Interface for Neovim.
Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2024
Desktop
- Yaak (repo (⭐18k)) - The most intuitive desktop API client
Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024
IDE
- rest.nvim (⭐2k) - A fast Neovim http client written in Lua
Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2024
Desktop
- Nightingale REST Client (repo (⭐831)) - A modern, open-source, resource-efficient REST API client for Windows
Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2024
CLI
- posting (⭐11k) - The modern API client that lives in your terminal
Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2024
CLI
- ATAC (repo (⭐3.5k)) - A simple postman like API client for terminal
Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2024
Desktop
- Insomnium (⭐3.5k) - (unmaintained) Insomnium is a 100% local and privacy-focus open-source API client (based on Insomnia)
Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2024
Web-Based
- Prestige (repo (⭐403)) - A text-based in-browser HTTP client, an interface-less Postman alternative
Automated Testing
- k6 (repo (⭐30k)) - A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024
Desktop
- BloomRPC (⭐9k) - (unmaintained) The missing GUI Client for gRPC services
Dec 18 - Dec 24, 2023
Desktop
- Pororoca (repo (⭐645)) - A HTTP inspection tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, an alternative to Postman
Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2023
Web-Based
- Yaade (repo (⭐2k)) - Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment
CLI
- httpYac (repo (⭐780)) - Yet another REST client to send REST, SOAP, GraphQL and gRPC requests
Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2023
Automated Testing
- abao (⭐352) - REST API automated testing tool based on RAML
Oct 02 - Oct 08, 2023
Web-Based
- gRPC UI (⭐5.8k) - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman
IDE
- restclient.el (⭐2k) - HTTP REST client tool for emacs
- verb (⭐734) - Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs
CLI
- curlie (⭐3.6k) - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie
- HttpRepl (⭐711) - Lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported
- ain (⭐622) - A HTTP API client for the terminal, uses curl, wget or httpie to make the actual calls
- evans (⭐4.5k) - Evans: more expressive universal gRPC client
Automated Testing
Sep 25 - Oct 01, 2023
Web-Based
- Restfox (repo (⭐2.6k)) - Offline-first web HTTP client
- Hoppscotch (repo (⭐78k)) - Open source API development ecosystem
- Firecamp (repo (⭐2.6k)) - Open Source Postman Alternative inspired by VS Code DX
Desktop
- Bruno (repo (⭐41k)) - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing APIs
- API Dash (⭐2.7k) - API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client
- ezy (repo (⭐1k)) - GUI client for gRPC/gRPC-Web
- Milkman (⭐1.3k) - An Extensible Request/Response Workbench
IDE
- VS Code REST Client (repo (⭐6k)) - Send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code
CLI
- curl (repo (⭐41k)) - Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs (since 1998)
- HTTPie (repo (⭐38k)) - HTTPie CLI: human-friendly HTTP client for the API era
- grpcurl (⭐12k) - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
- xh (⭐7.6k) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
Automated Testing
- Step CI (repo (⭐1.8k)) - Open-source API Test Automation framework
- Hurl (repo (⭐19k)) - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
- Karate (repo (⭐8.8k)) - Test Automation Made Simple
- Tavern (repo (⭐1.1k)) - Automated RESTful API testing
- Venom (⭐1.2k) - Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency
- pyresttest (⭐1.2k) - Python Rest Testing
- runn (⭐613) - runn is a package/tool for running operations following a scenario
- scenarigo (⭐0) - An end-to-end scenario testing tool for HTTP/gRPC server
- Schemathesis (repo (⭐3.1k)) - Specification-centric API testing tool for Open API and GraphQL-based applications
- Dredd (⭐4.2k) - Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool
- Artillery (repo (⭐8.9k)) - Load testing at cloud-scale