What is better than the existing, established alternatives https://www.usebruno.com/ and https://insomnia.rest/ ?

Not that I necessarily recommend yaak but this post explains why Bruno and Insomnia are not to be trusted: https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/

	▲	EspadaV9 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I switched to Yaak, initially compiled it myself but now paying for it. I've not had any issues with it, does what I need and keeps out of the way. Simple yaml files in Git is also nice. I would recommend giving it a spin. I think there is a trial, and you can build it yourself, with a bit of configuring.

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kind_of_serious 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would stay off Insomnia. A few versions ago, they practically took my local configuration ransom so they could force me to create a cloud account. Bruno is (still) not there, but the maintainers are slowly heading that way.

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asdfsa32 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Insomnia has been around for a while but just like this post from a new account, there is a lot of push for bruno, which is usually a redflag. Never trust things that are "preached" for free.

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prmoustache 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

what is wrong with curl and httpie (I mean the open source cli one, no idea what the desktop one does)?

	▲	hoherd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but every time somebody mentions Postman or Bruno, I think of https://justuse.org/curl because so much of is is true.

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hector84 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

if you use VS Code, there are a lot of alternatives:

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... - rest client storing config locally

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Christia...

[2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=prawel.r... - same as [0], but with GUI

[3]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=slverma....

etc.

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pelagicAustral 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Insomnia and Bruno are both non-native JS apps, I think the moat here is that "this" is not "that".