Insomnia REST Client Alternatives

Insomnia REST Client is described as 'A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux' and is a very popular API Client in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Insomnia REST Client for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Insomnia REST Client alternative is Bruno, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Insomnia REST Client are Postman, NativeRest, Yaak and Hoppscotch.

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Insomnia REST Client alternatives are mainly API Clients, but if you're looking for HTTP Clients or HTTP(S) Debuggers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Insomnia REST Client.
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  1. 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.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. 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)

    Application types

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  5. Humlix icon
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    Humlix shows you an easy way of generating tests for your web APIs. All you need to do is create a test request using the test request builder within Humlix and give an example of how your endpoints look and what type of data they want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • 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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Conektto icon
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    Conektto's API lifecycle fabric is the world's first SAAS based visual designer for API that generates spec, mocks, visualization, code, test and test data automatically.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. RESTClient can be used to test variety of HTTP communications and RESTful webservices. Friendly GUI, rich functionalities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. HTTP API testing tool where you can create requests and mock existing API:s. After trial has expired you can still create requests.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GNU Emacs
     
  12. API Test Base is a free tool for integration testing a variety of APIs. It is suitable for Integration, ESB and Microservices testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker
     
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