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Desktop alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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🚀 HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.

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#1

Hoppscotch

Similarity 143Trust 90Excellent 100

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

80K starsJun 17, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add hoppscotch/hoppscotch
#2

Cli

Similarity 139Trust 82Excellent 87

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

38K starsDec 17, 2024 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add httpie/cli
#3

Apidash

Similarity 139Trust 91Excellent 100

API Dash is a beautiful AI-powered open-source cross-platform (Desktop & Mobile) API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your HTTP & GraphQL API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia.

2.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsDartDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add foss42/apidash
#4

Bruno

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

45K starsJun 19, 2026 pushcoding-agentsJavaScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add usebruno/bruno
#5

Requestly

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 100

Community hub for Requestly API Client — bugs, feature requests, and roadmap. The privacy-first Postman alternative.

6.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsDeveloper ToolsClaude Code
$ npx skills add requestly/requestly
#6

Xh

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 100

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

7.9K starsJun 8, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add ducaale/xh
#7

Restfox

Similarity 130Trust 87Excellent 100

Offline-First Minimalistic HTTP & Socket Testing Client for the Web & Desktop

2.7K starsApr 20, 2026 pushcoding-agentsVueDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add flawiddsouza/Restfox
#8

Apiark

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 96

Privacy-first API platform built with Tauri v2. No login, no cloud, ~60 MB RAM. A lightweight Postman alternative.

1.1K starsMar 26, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add berbicanes/apiark
#9

Lapce

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

39K starsJun 10, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add lapce/lapce
#10

Curlie

Similarity 127Trust 80Excellent 89

The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

3.7K starsDec 7, 2025 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add rs/curlie
#11

Http Prompt

Similarity 127Trust 79Strong 80

An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

9.1K starsMay 21, 2024 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add httpie/http-prompt
#12

Gpt Pilot

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

The first real AI developer

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot
#13

DevToys

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

A Swiss Army knife for developers.

32K starsFeb 25, 2026 pushcoding-agentsC#Developer Tools
$ npx skills add DevToys-app/DevToys
#14

GitHubDaily

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 100

坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub.

47K starsDec 31, 2025 pushcoding-agentsDeveloper ToolsClaude Code
$ npx skills add GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily
#15

D2

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

24K starsApr 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add terrastruct/d2
#16

Skaffold

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

16K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

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