I got tired of Postman. Not the tool itself — Postman is genuinely good. What I got tired of was the friction : the mandatory account, the cloud sync I didn't ask for, the features hidden behind a $12/month plan, the loading screen every time I just wanted to hit an endpoint. And when Postman announced that the free plan would be limited to a single user starting March 2026, a lot of teams started asking the same question: what else is out there? So I built API Sentinel — a free, local-first desktop API client. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Everything runs on your machine. Download: github.com/Sanjeevsky/api-sentinel-downloads Landing page: sanjeevsky.github.io/api-sentinel-downloads Why local-first matters Most API clients have drifted toward cloud-first architectures. That means your collections, environments, request history, API keys, and internal endpoint URLs are sitting on someone else's server.…