Bruno - The Git-Native API Client
Worth it
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if your team lives in Git and wants a free, local Postman replacement.
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Comparison
Bruno - The Git-Native API Client lands on Worth it, and VS Code Marketplace lands on Depends.
Buy it if your team lives in Git and wants a free, local Postman replacement.
There is nothing to buy . this is the free default extension gallery for VS Code, so use it if you run VS Code proper.
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| Verdict | Worth it | Depends |
| Best for | Git-centric dev teams | Daily VS Code users |
| Who it's not for | Teams wanting cloud workspaces without Git | VS Code fork users . Cursor et al. migrated to OpenVSX |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.³ | Official security page published; community sources report one critical extension supply-chain vulnerability.11 |
| Support quality | No support evidence beyond paid enterprise | No support evidence in sources reviewed |
| Public sentiment | Developers consistently praise Bruno as a fast, free, offline Postman replacement, with the Git-based storage as the defining draw.⁴ | No substantive user reviews of the VS Code Marketplace itself appear in the sources; most cover unrelated marketplaces.10 |
| Biggest gotcha | No vendor support on free tier; help means community issues or paid enterprise plan² | Supply-chain risk: researchers reported a critical VSCode extension vulnerability11 |