Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Insomnia REST API Client
Build, manage, and run templated REST API requests
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Insomnia REST API Client launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
2017 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
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Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
2020 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
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Collaborative API Design Platform / Editor
2020 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
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Finally, a home for all your SQL queries.
2021 · rosefinchapp.com · its alternatives →
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Insomnia▲7An application built with late night developers in mind
2017 · alexanderepstein.github.io · its alternatives →
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List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives - stepci/awesome-api-clients
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Restfox▲69Browser based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman
2022 · restfox.dev · its alternatives →
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Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release. Quick list of features: - Workspaces - Tabs - Nested Folders - Lots of context menus - Response history - Plugins - Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary - Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions - Desktop builds for all platforms - GraphQL support - Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia - Simple user friendly interface I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the…
2022 · restfox.dev · its alternatives →
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Anything API▲656Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…
Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Greg and I've been working on Yaak for just over a year. I usually describe it as a Postman alternative since most developers are familiar with that, but it's targeted more toward users that just want an API client (no mocking, testing, spec design, etc). Having also created Insomnia for a similar purpose, I never thought I'd build another API client again. But, after selling Insomnia in 2019 and watching it expand into the broader feature set of Postman, I was left wanting a simpler tool again. Yaak was my answer to that. It's hard to describe how it's better than the 100 other…
2025 · yaak.app · its alternatives →
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I've created an Insomnia workspace to make it easier to debug your stock trading code and learn the Alpaca API. You can read about how here: https://medium.com/automation-generation/using-alpacas-stock... The actual workspace JSON for you to import into Insomnia can be found here: https://github.com/alpacahq/insomnia-workspace
2018 · its alternatives →
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Layer Client API▲239Messaging, built for developers - now for web and desktop
2015 · its alternatives →
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Heartbeat▲100Transform REST endpoints into streaming APIs
2016 · heartbeat.appbase.io · its alternatives →
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Your instant sleep assistant is reporting for dozing duty
2023 · pond5.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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