DEV Community

Cover image for What is an alternative to Postman? Bruno

What is an alternative to Postman? Bruno

Pranav Arora on October 13, 2024

Ever tried the Bruno API Client? In this post, I’d like to share my experiences with Bruno, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide which tool best s...
Collapse
 
jonrandy profile image
Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Insomnia is superb.

Collapse
 
pranavarora1895 profile image
Pranav Arora

Haven't tried that one, I'll give it a shot.

Collapse
 
vaishnavghenge profile image
Vaishnav Ghenge

Please try hoppscotch.io/ I had better experience with it.

Collapse
 
pranavarora1895 profile image
Pranav Arora

Oh great. Worth a try.

Collapse
 
prince_beec5ccde00b7c6c73 profile image
Prince

Thunder Client an inbuilt................is the best

Collapse
 
paraspl01t profile image
Tushar Tyagi

AFAIK Tunder client started paywalling some basic and usefull features. correct me if i'm wrong.

Collapse
 
tqbit profile image
tq-bit

This. They put the git feature behind paywall over night. Great client, but I had to migrate hundreds of API requests over night.

Thread Thread
 
pranavarora1895 profile image
Pranav Arora

Oh that's a pain

Collapse
 
pranavarora1895 profile image
Pranav Arora

Yeah I've used that as well. Everything in one editor. It's good.

Collapse
 
bh4skar profile image
Bhaskar Prajapati

isn't that a thing with VSCode?

Collapse
 
williamdk profile image
Asaba William

A good one

Collapse
 
vuelancer profile image
Vuelancer

Issue I face in bruno is cant able to retrieve the history of the api request.

Collapse
 
pranavarora1895 profile image
Pranav Arora

True, it overrides the previous API request in the repository as well.

Collapse
 
rasibobs profile image
Rasibobs

Well, personally i prefer HTTPie over Postman.

Collapse
 
bh4skar profile image
Bhaskar Prajapati

I've been using Bruno for quite some time now. It is really really good one. Super lightweight and memory hogging than Postman

Collapse
 
uciharis profile image
the hengker

let me give a shoot try

Collapse
 
ng_dream_3e53e6a868268e4d profile image
ngdream

i also love this api client

Collapse
 
namanvats profile image
Naman Vats • Edited

Postman lags a lot and consumes lot of resources, my alternative is bruno

Collapse
 
sirelli profile image
Jerount

Bruno is much better, I think.