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Steve McDougall
Steve McDougall

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Privacy first API Testing client for Mac

For the longest time, I have been using Postman then Insomnia, then trialing all sorts of other API testing tools. They all work but, some of them work better than others. One of them was built on electron and to put it simply, too slow to use.

This is where a tool like Aspen comes in, a native built privacy focused API testing tool. There is no login required, and no requests go to anywhere other than your local machine - unless you choose to share a request with another user.

Not only this, but it recently included Collections and Environments in the tool! So it is giving me almost everything I was getting from postman just with extra performance and privacy. Coming soon though is going to be importing and exporting collection - which I can't wait for!

My favorite feature so far is Alfred which is an AI assistant that sits in the application, and allows you to interact with the request and response itself to build code tests, integrations and more.

I highly recommend testing it out! It isn't as fully featured as others I have seen, but it is definitely going in the right direction!

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