The Best Insomnia REST Client AlternativesTop API & HTTP Clients like Insomnia REST Client

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 NativeRest. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Postman or Bruno. Other great apps like Insomnia REST Client are Yaak, HTTP Toolkit, Hoppscotch and Insomnium.

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  1. NativeRest icon
     96 likes

    Native desktop app for Windows offers high-performance REST and HTTP API testing, low memory and CPU use, custom methods, portable version, proxy support, multiple environments, code generation, multilingual interface, and import/export in light or dark themes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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  2. Postman icon
     177 likes

    Postman is a collaborative platform for API development that provides extensive tools for designing, testing, and documenting APIs. It allows API verification through requests, automated testing via Collection Runner, and offers both free and paid plans, catering to individuals and teams.

    91 Postman alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
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  3. Bruno icon
     45 likes

    Bruno is a new and innovative open source API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there.

    32 Bruno alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Visual Studio Code
     
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  4. Yaak icon
     18 likes

    The API client for modern developers. Call REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs from a simple and intuitive app.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. HTTP Toolkit icon
     90 likes

    HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful, cross-platform & open-source HTTP(S) debugging proxy, analyzer & client, with built-in support for modern tools and automatic interception for clients from Docker to Android to iOS.

    51 HTTP Toolkit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Docker
     
  6. Hoppscotch icon
     41 likes

    Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem. It helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development.

    67 Hoppscotch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Insomnium icon
     16 likes

    Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Insomnium as an Alternative to Insomnia REST Client
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    It's an Insomnia fork without the user account requirements, it's more lightweight and respects user privacy.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Insomnium is a great Insomnia REST Client alternative.

    • Insomnium is Free and Open SourceInsomnia REST Client is Freemium and Open Source
  8. RapidAPI for Mac (formerly Paw) is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native macOS interface to compose requests, inspect server responses, generate client code and export API definitions.

    58 RapidAPI for Mac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  9. soapUI icon
     59 likes

    Eviware, the maker of soapUI, Web Service Testing Leader

    soapUI is a tool for functional testing, mainly of web services like SOAP based web services and RESTful web services, but also HTTP based services and JMS Services as well as databases. soapUI is an open source and compl.

    79 soapUI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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  10. HTTP client for GNOME featuring GTK 4 UI, organized project management, request history, secure environment variables, JavaScript scripts for preprocessing, export in cURL and more formats, syntax-highlighted response viewing, and advanced request customization.

    15 Roster HTTP Client alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • GNOME
     
  11. Voiden.md icon
     6 likes

    Voiden.md is an offline-first, Git-native API workspace that unifies specs, docs, tests, and mocks using programmable Markdown blocks. Build APIs the way you actually work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. API testing tool. Which allows web developers to create and test custom HTTP requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • AppImageHub
    • Google Chrome
    • Chromium
     
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