Vegha

A cross-platform, native, MIT-licensed API testing desktop app. Bruno-class engine. Enterprise-class polish. Fully local. Zero telemetry.

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The desktop API-testing category is crowded with Electron apps that boot slowly, eat memory, and quietly phone home. Vegha is a fresh alternative:

•   Native binary — Avalonia + .NET 10, starts fast, stays responsive under load, smaller memory footprint.
•   Local-first, zero telemetry, no phone-home by default.
•   File-system-folder workspaces, optionally git-backed — your collections are plain-text Bruno-style .bru files.
•   MIT-licensed. Use it, fork it, ship it commercially.
•   Enterprise-ready out of the box: SSO-brokered auth flows, secret-manager bindings, native git, mTLS, OAuth2 in the system browser.

Download the latest build from vegha.ai or the GitHub releases page. Direct-download builds update themselves in-app via Velopack. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt on each release.

Requirements: Windows 10+, macOS 12 Monterey+, or a modern Linux distro (Ubuntu 22+, Fedora 38+, Arch).

• Microsoft Store — Vegha on the Microsoft Store (MSIX, Store-managed updates)

Prefer to build it yourself? See Build.

Prerequisites: the .NET 10 SDK — that's it. There are no native build dependencies, and git operations are handled in-process by LibGit2Sharp.

Clone the repo and build the full solution:

git clone https://github.com/vegha-ai/Vegha.git
cd Vegha

dotnet restore
dotnet build          # Debug build of every project
dotnet test           # run the unit + integration suites

For an optimized build, add -c Release to dotnet build.

dotnet run --project app/Vegha.App

The CLI shares the same engine as the desktop app. Run it with no arguments to print the verb list:

dotnet run --project cli

# Import an OpenAPI / Postman / Insomnia file into a collection folder
dotnet run --project cli -- import samples/openapi/petstore.json ./petstore

# Execute that collection — add --name "<request>" to run a single request
dotnet run --project cli -- run ./petstore

Signed installers and store packages (Velopack, MSIX, MAS) are produced by the scripts in eng/ together with the GitHub Actions workflows in .github/workflows/.

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├── app/             # Desktop UI (Avalonia 11) + Core engine projects
├── cli/             # Headless CLI — same engine as the UI
├── plugin-vscode/   # VSCode extension (planned, v2)
├── samples/         # Sample collections (Bruno petstore, OpenAPI petstore, SoapUI project)
├── docs/            # README icons and assets
└── eng/             # Build / packaging scripts (Velopack, MSIX, MAS)

Shortcuts use Ctrl on Windows / Linux and ⌘ on macOS. The in-app menus, the Help → Keyboard shortcuts dialog, and the Settings → Shortcuts page all render the gesture for whichever OS you're running on.

Zero telemetry. Zero crash reporting. Zero phone-home.

The only outbound traffic Vegha ever issues is:

1. The test requests you explicitly send.
2. The auth flows you explicitly initiate (OAuth2, OIDC discovery, etc.).
3. In direct-download builds only — periodic Velopack update checks.

There is no opt-out toggle because there is nothing to opt out of. MSIX and Mac App Store builds defer updates entirely to the store and skip step 3.

Three build flavors from a single codebase:

MIT — see LICENSE. Free to use, modify, and distribute, including commercially.

Vegha's request engine and importer logic is derived in part from Bruno (MIT), and the UI is built on Avalonia.

A long tail of incredible OSS makes this possible — see THIRD_PARTY.md for the full attribution list.