---
title: "usebruno/bruno: Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/usebruno-bruno-opensource-ide-for-exploring-and-testing-api-s-lightweight-alternative-to-postman-i-2ozcq1nx4
source_url: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
type: article
source: "Pointer"
published: 2023-10-03T16:08:59.592Z
updated: 2023-10-03T16:08:23.374Z
tags: ["testing", "github", "open-source"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 157
comments: 3
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# usebruno/bruno: Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

**[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 1 min read · 157 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Bruno is an open-source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. It offers a lightweight alternative to Postman and similar tools. Bruno stores API collections directly on the user's filesystem using a plain text markup language called Bru. It allows collaboration through Git or any version control system. Bruno is offline-only, prioritizing data privacy and device storage.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@corbie** · 1 upvotes

> This is the Postman alternative I was looking for 😍

**@jangel94** · 0 upvotes

> Nice tool! It's really easy to use

**@patrickwanko** · 0 upvotes

> Nice! I like the way it leverages git for collaboration.

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