Open source alternatives to Bruno

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Bruno does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Bruno does

Send HTTP requests and read responsescore
Collections stored as plain filescore
Git-friendly versioningcore
Environments and variables
Scripts and assertions
Run collections from the command line
Import from Postman and OpenAPI

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
tigerGit-native API client with plain-text collections, offline use and built-in MCP	Replaces it90%	107+2	205	3 days ago	Too few	Install like an app	MIT
Covers all 3 core jobs. Not shown: Run collections from the command line.See the evidence Send HTTP requests and read responsescoreYestesting REST, GraphQL and SOAP APIs Collections stored as plain filescoreYesOne `.tiger` text file per request. Git-friendly versioningcoreYesDiff, branch and review them like code. Environments and variablesYesEnvironments and secrets with masked secret variables. Scripts and assertionsYesassertions that show pass or fail Run collections from the command lineNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Import from Postman and OpenAPIYesImport Postman v2.0/v2.1 collections, environments and globals

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