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Bruno vs smocker
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. smocker has 1,287 stars, 73 forks, 14 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Bruno leads on adoption by 3,629% (47,992 vs 1,287 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; smocker is written in TypeScript under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, smocker 6%. Bruno was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Bruno | smocker | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 1.3K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 73 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Bruno if
- You weight community size — 48K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick smocker if
- You want the smocker feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and smocker fits your workflow better
About Bruno
Bruno Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs. English Українська Русский Türkçe Deutsch Français Português (BR) 한국어 বাংলা Español Italiano Română Polski 简体中文 正體中文 العربية 日本語 ქართული Nederlands فارسی Bruno is a new and innovative API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman and similar tools out there. Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests. You can use Git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections. Bruno is offline only. There…
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About smocker
Smocker (server mock) is a simple and efficient HTTP mock server. The documentation is available on smocker.dev. Table of contents Installation With Docker Manual Deployment Healthcheck User Interface Usage Hello, World! Mock format schema Development Backend Frontend Docker Caddy HTTPS Authors Contributors Installation With Docker Manual Deployment Healthcheck User Interface Smocker exposes a configuration user interface. You can access it in your web browser on Usage Smocker exposes two ports: 8080 is the mock server port. It will expose the routes you register through the configuration port 8081 is the…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or smocker more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and smocker has 1,287. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and smocker free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and smocker under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and smocker?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and smocker in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Bruno or smocker?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose smocker if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.