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Bruno vs twitter
Bruno has 47,779 GitHub stars, 3,015 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. twitter has 949 stars, 291 forks, 12 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Bruno leads on adoption by 4,935% (47,779 vs 949 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; twitter is written in PHP under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, twitter 31%. twitter was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (api-client), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 949 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-20 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.0K | ⑂ 291 |
| 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 twitter if
- You want the twitter feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and twitter 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 twitter
X (formerly Twitter) for PHP Twitter API for Laravel 10.x, 11.x (and new versions as they are released). Also supports other frameworks via PHP DI (or feel free to add support for your framework via PR) You need to create an application and create your access token in the Application Management. Installation Laravel Configuration Just set the below environment variables in your .env . Advanced Laravel configuration Run php artisan vendor:publish provider="Atymic\Twitter\ServiceProvider\LaravelServiceProvider" Versions 3.x 3.x is the current major version, and is not backward compatible with 2.x. See the…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or twitter more popular?
Bruno has 47,779 GitHub stars and twitter has 949. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and twitter free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and twitter under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and twitter?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and twitter in PHP. 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 twitter?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,779 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose twitter if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.