Insomnia REST Client
A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux
- Freemium • Open Source
- API Client
- HTTP Client
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
What is Insomnia REST Client?
Debug APIs like a human, not a robot.
Insomnia is a simple yet powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
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- Developed byGregory Schier
- LicensingOpen Source (Apache-2.0) and Freemium product.
- PricingSubscription that costs between $0 and $8.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 3.6
- Alternatives55 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
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- 31,275 Stars
- 1,783 Forks
- 650 Open Issues
- Updated
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Tags
- Responsive design
- API Client
- HTTP Client
- GraphQL Support
- Web Development
- Api
- http
- configurable-proxy
- Software developer
- graphql-completion
- SVG
- Developer Tools
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I'm not sure what the deal is with Postman but it's something with their UI that makes me crazy. You can't copy paste stuff without the cursor leaving the fields and so on.
Their environment system also feels weird and you have no idea what gets saved or not and it's just confusing in general.
I have tried Insomnia for a while now and it just feels so much better.
Having used other products to test APIs with (Postman and other Chrome apps), Insomnia is the easiest to use of the bunch and very aesthetically pleasing. Many other apps have extremely cluttered UIs but this one has the most succinct and well thought-out UIs of them all.
With the upgrade to the latest version (8), all the request collections disappeared, and not it's only to possible to have a single local collection called Scratchpad. The issue is described in their issue ticket 6585 (https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585). It's probably to push people to use their cloud features. I avoided using Postman because they did the same. Now I will also avoid Insomnia. That's a shame because it was quite convenient.
Is Insomnia a better tool than Postman? It can be just as good, or even better. I really like its UI/UX design.
I used this client for a couple of years but with recent updates it became so slow that it's just not usable anymore. I am not sure whether Insomnia is based on Electron but it sure does look and feel like it and explains the performance issues. Looking for another open source alternative now.
Is Insomnia REST client collaborative?
It's good, simple an clean :) dsadasd