Bruno is an open-source desktop alternative to Postman and Insomnia for API testing, development and debugging. It aims to provide superior collaboration, privacy and security with its simple offline-only design. Collections are stored directly in your filesystem — written in a custom plain text markup language, Bru Lang, and can be shared with Git or a version control tool of your choice to collaborate. Bruno is available both as a desktop app and a CLI tool. It also offers an official VS Code extension, with plans for additional IDE support. Bruno has become the default choice for several Thoughtworks teams, but we also advise teams to be on guard when working under VPN and proxy environments, since requests made in such conditions have been reported to fail unexpectedly.
Bruno is an open-source desktop alternative to Postman and Insomnia for API testing, development and debugging. It stores your collections locally on the filesystem so you can use Git or a version control of your choice to collaborate. Several Thoughtworks teams are using Bruno and like its simple offline-only design.
