Postman Alternatives

Postman is described as 'Collaborative platform for API development providing design, specifications, testing, documentation, and requests with free and paid subscription plans' and is a very popular API Client in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Postman for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Postman alternative is Insomnia REST Client, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Postman are NativeRest, Hoppscotch, HTTPie for Terminal and Bruno.

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Postman alternatives are mainly API Clients, but if you're looking for HTTP Clients or HTTP(S) Debuggers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Web Development, Online, Android, Mac, Linux and API Client. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Postman.
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  1. Assertible icon
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    Assertible is the easiest way to test and monitor your APIs and helps reduce bugs in web apps by providing tools to continuously validate endpoints and responses with a flexible interface to run your tests any time and place.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. SyncTree icon
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    SyncTree strives to be a "Super Connecting Platform" that can easily connect any services you want.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Windows
     
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  3. GetIt icon
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    Send HTTP requests to API endpoints. GetIt's main focus is to make your life a lot easier when you have to test APIs or use somebody else's API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Hello HTTP icon
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    A cross-platform HTTP client desktop application for testing HTTP and REST APIs, WebSocket, GraphQL (including subscriptions) and gRPC endpoints.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. ArdorQuery icon
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    ArdorQuery is a cross-platform tool for performing any HTTP(S) endpoints like REST API, HTML, Images, GraphQL, OData etc.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. gRPC icon
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    gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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  7. Conektto icon
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    Conektto's API lifecycle fabric is the world's first SAAS based visual designer for API that generates spec, mocks, visualization, code, test and test data automatically.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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  8. ApiClient icon
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    Helps you to test the Rest API with your phone including features like import, edit and export postman collections.With this, you don't need to look for your laptop or PC whenever you need to test and modify your REST APIs. You can work on them anytime, on the go.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. This is a tool to manually explore and test HTTP REST webservices. Runs queries from a plain-text query sheet, displays results as a pretty-printed XML, JSON and even images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GNU Emacs
     
  10. Step CI icon
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    Open-source API Test Automation framework.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Api Quest icon
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    Api Quest is a desktop application designed for executing HTTP requests, storing them on the local file system, and providing portability. Whether you're a developer, QA or system engineer, this tool offers solution for handling HTTP requests effectively.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Ain icon
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    Ain is a command-line HTTP API client. It's an alternative to postman, paw or insomnia. It enables scripting of input and further processing of output. It targets command-line users who work with API:s using a simple file format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
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