Routehound v0.3.0

What's new

• Environments, redone: each collection gets an Environments tab with a matrix (Base, Local, Staging, Production…). Values are inherited from Base unless you override them, and each row has a secret lock. Pick the active environment in the client with Ctrl+E; a Missing chip lists the variables with no value and takes you to fill them.
• Production guard: give an environment the Danger tone and Routehound asks before sending a POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE to it.
• New body types: form (urlencoded), multipart with file fields, a binary file, and raw Text or XML besides JSON. OpenAPI export keeps the media type.

Downloads

• Windows: Routehound_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe
• Linux: .deb, .rpm or .AppImage
• macOS: not in this release.

From 0.2.2 on, updates arrive in the app. Builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will ask for confirmation.

Routehound v0.2.3

• Indexing: routes keep their full mount prefix (/employees/documents, not /documents) when a router is mounted with middleware calls, arrays or an inline require(...), and in projects without a standard entry file.
• Re-index now repairs routes imported without their prefix: same endpoint, with its name, saved request, docs and variants kept, instead of a duplicate plus an orphan.
• Request timeout per collection (Collections › Settings › Requests, 1–300 s, default 30).
• Home: the "recent" time column no longer wraps.

Routehound v0.2.2

What's new

• In-app updates: Routehound now checks for new versions at start and offers Update · Later. Update downloads, installs and restarts; nothing is installed until you click. You can also check by hand in About › Updates.
  • This version must be installed by hand (0.2.0 and 0.2.1 could not update themselves). From 0.2.2 on, updates arrive in the app.
• Privacy notice, terms and support in About: no accounts, no telemetry, everything stays on your machine. Read them in full in any of the six languages.
• Report a problem / Ask a question from About opens a GitHub issue with your version and system already filled in. Security problems go through the repository's private "Report a vulnerability".

Downloads

• Windows: Routehound_0.2.2_x64-setup.exe
• Linux: .deb, .rpm or .AppImage
• macOS: not in this release.

Builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will ask for confirmation.

Routehound v0.2.1

What's new

A performance patch.

• Indexing a large repository no longer freezes the window. Scans and workspace reads now run in the background, so you can keep working while a project is indexed.
• The window comes to the front right away, even while a project folder is being re-indexed after you save in your editor.
• Smoother typing in the client with many tabs or a long send history.
• Large workspaces open faster: a closed collection loads its endpoints the first time you open it.
• Saving code that does not change any route no longer re-renders or rewrites the collection.

Downloads

• Windows: Routehound_0.2.1_x64-setup.exe
• Linux: .deb, .rpm or .AppImage
• macOS: not in this release.

Builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will ask for confirmation. If you already have 0.2.0, the app will offer the update.

Routehound v0.2.0

What's new

• Environments per collection: create Local, Staging, Prod… in Collections › Settings › Variables and switch between them from the client (right of the group bar). An environment overrides the collection's base variables, which override the global ones.
• Secret variables stay on your computer: every variable has a Secret checkbox (checked by default for names like token, password, api_key). Secret values live in the system keychain; the workspace folder only keeps their names, so teammates know what to fill in.
• Port per endpoint: change the host port from any endpoint (:port in the URL bar); it is saved with the endpoint, and the ports used in the collection are offered in every endpoint.
• Resizable response when docked below (also when the window is narrow and the response stacks under the request).
• Layout fixes on narrow windows and long translations.

License

From this version Routehound is licensed under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0: free to use, modify and use at work, but not to offer as a competing product. v0.1.0 keeps its FSL-1.1-MIT license.

Downloads

• Windows: Routehound_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe
• Linux: .deb, .rpm or .AppImage
• macOS: not in this release.

Builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will ask for confirmation.

Routehound v0.1.0

Routehound v0.1.0 — first public release

Your API collection writes itself — from your code, and it never leaves your machine.

Routehound is a desktop API client (like Bruno or Postman) that indexes the endpoints of your
projects automatically. Point it at an API project and it builds the collection for you; when the
code changes, it re-indexes and merges, keeping your names, saved requests and docs.

Highlights

• Indexing from code: Express, Fastify, NestJS, Next.js, Koa and Hono, with a live folder
  watcher. No OpenAPI spec and no deployed traffic needed.
• Local AI fallback (LM Studio): when the indexer finds nothing (FastAPI, Laravel, Spring, Go…),
  your local model proposes the routes for review. Code only goes to your local model.
• Request editor: params, headers, body variants, {{variables}}, native send (no CORS),
  history, cURL import and a command palette (Ctrl K).
• Workspace in a folder: one JSON file per endpoint, ready for git.
• Secrets in the OS keychain: tokens and API keys never land in files.
• Import / export: OpenAPI/Swagger (JSON or YAML), Postman v2.x and Bruno in; OpenAPI 3 out.
• Languages: EN, ES, PT-BR, FR, DE, ZH.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Routehound_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe
macOS	coming soon
Linux	coming soon

Install notes

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will warn you:
click More info › Run anyway.

License

FSL-1.1-MIT: free to use,
including at work. Each release becomes MIT two years after it is published.