# Voiden

An offline, Git-native API workspace that keeps requests, tests, and docs in plain-text files you can review and version.

HTML: https://softbests.com/software/voiden
Markdown: https://softbests.com/software/voiden.md
Website: https://voiden.md

- Category: [Developer utilities](https://softbests.com/category/developer-tools)
- Pricing: Open source
- Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux
- Underrated

## Best for

Teams that want API collections in Git instead of a cloud account and opaque workspace.

## Why it deserves attention

Voiden stores requests as readable .void files composed of reusable blocks, so API definitions diff cleanly, review like code, and work offline without an account or mandatory sync. Requests, tests, and documentation live together, and blocks can be reused, replaced, and versioned across a project. It is Apache-2.0, free, cross-platform, and has about 2,000 GitHub stars with active development. Its ecosystem and plugin coverage are smaller than Postman's, and teams already standardized on a cloud workspace will need to migrate deliberately.

## Can replace

- [Postman](https://softbests.com/software/postman)
- [Insomnia](https://softbests.com/software/insomnia)

## Related and alternatives

- [Bruno](https://softbests.com/software/bruno)
- [Hoppscotch](https://softbests.com/software/hoppscotch)