The BEST alternative to Postman and Insomnia! Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC APIs. All data is stored locally and Kreya is designed for collaboration via git and other tools. Designed to be easy to use while also supporting advanced use cases.
We've been working on Kreya for over two years now. In the beginning, it only supported gRPC, but we've added support for REST and tons of features in the meantime! That doesn't mean it has become a bloated mess, we try to keep the UI lean and clean.
With the recent controversy around Postman and Insomnia (they now require an account and store all data in their cloud), we want to highlight that Kreya can be used without an account and that all data is stored locally on your computer. Kreya even goes out of its way to store the data in a format that is easy to share with tools such as git. We won't change this behaviour in the future. An account is only required to access the paid features.
In our opinion, Kreya is one of the best API testing tools out there!
About Kreya on Product Hunt
“Build and test APIs faster”
Kreya launched on Product Hunt on October 13th, 2023 and earned 85 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #32 on the daily leaderboard. The BEST alternative to Postman and Insomnia! Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC APIs. All data is stored locally and Kreya is designed for collaboration via git and other tools. Designed to be easy to use while also supporting advanced use cases.
On the analytics side, Kreya competes within API, Software Engineering and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 651.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Kreya performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Kreya?
Kreya was hunted by Manuel Allenspach. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Kreya including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Manuel Allenspach