Open Source Insomnia REST Client Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Insomnia REST Client is Bruno. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Insomnia REST Client and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Insomnia REST Client are Yaak, Hoppscotch, HTTP Toolkit and Insomnium.

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  1. API Dash icon
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    API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • Linux Mint
    • Fedora
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • CentOS
     
  2. API test automation tool that has GUI, supports HTTP stubs (mock services), data driven testing, and API types beyond HTTP, such as relational database, JMS, FTP(s), AMQP, MQTT, etc.

    28 Iron Test alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. ArdorQuery icon
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    ArdorQuery is a cross-platform tool for performing any HTTP(S) endpoints like REST API, HTML, Images, GraphQL, OData etc.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. Requester icon
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    HTTP client plugin for Sublime Text with an expansive feature set, modern UX, elegant syntax and first class support for testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. RESTer icon
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    A REST client for almost any web service (Firefox and Chrome extension).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  6. Yaade icon
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    Yaade is the only open-source, fully self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Pororoca icon
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    A HTTP inspection tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Alternative to Postman.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  8. RESTClient can be used to test variety of HTTP communications and RESTful webservices. Friendly GUI, rich functionalities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. This is a tool to manually explore and test HTTP REST webservices. Runs queries from a plain-text query sheet, displays results as a pretty-printed XML, JSON and even images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GNU Emacs
     
  10. Main goal of this VSCode extension is storing all HTTP request & response data automatically as files in a VSCode workspace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. rest-client icon
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    Wisdom rest-client is a tool supports automated testing REST API, producing exquisite report, and generating exquisite REST API documentation based on historical cases.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. OpenReq icon
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    Build, test, and debug your APIs with a self-hosted tool that does what you actually need. Scripts, environments, OAuth 2.0, code generation, and an AI wizard that builds collections from your docs — no account required, no limits.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
     
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