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Insomnia REST Client

by schier.co

v2.7.0 Updated Aug 20, 2016 2.95MiB
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10K
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★ 4.57
339 reviews
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Description

Store, organize, and execute REST API requests in a beautiful and elegant interface. Tired of copying API requests from text file to terminal? Insomnia lets you manage requests in a simple and elegant way, by providing the following core features: - query string param builder - organize requests in workspaces and groups - execute requests in one click - reusable snippets - Swig templating - JSON validation - syntax highlighting (JSON, javascript, XML, CSS, ...) - HTTP basic authentication helper - import/export - responsive in any size window - quick request switching (ctrl-p style) - url encoding and decoding - base64 encoding and decoding - export as curl
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Reviews (16 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-17
Yiannis Koutsoumpidis

Not working on latest chrome versions

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-14
Marian I

Typing one character at a time...

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-19
Grigorichev Denis

Doesn't start at all!

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-17
Bahadir Tasdemir

Cannot find anywhere to add file on my POST request, make it available or seenable!

★☆☆☆☆2016-05-11
Peter Hurt

Unusable, sooooo slow, locks up and can't click on anything.

★☆☆☆☆2016-02-08
Arun Kumar

Worst. Latest update not at all works

★★☆☆☆2016-12-21
Matthew Church

Could not view response body, a necessary feature for a rest client

★★☆☆☆2016-01-28
Shannon Phillips

This has a lot of potential. I like the layout more than postman or advanced rest client, but i need to be able to enter bulk headers not each header name and value separately. That takes too long to warrant switching.

★★☆☆☆2015-05-26
Sebastian Gabriel Vinci

crushes a lot when processing big jsons. also... it caches service responses... IT CACHES SERVICE RESPONSES??? that's like... useless

★★★☆☆2017-10-17
Kay Ohtie

It would work great, but on current Chrome OS I have to type my JSON body for POST/etc into Caret and then paste into the editor. Otherwise, I can only type 1 character at a time, and then must click to place the cursor again before typing the next.

★★★☆☆2016-03-19
Mihai Zaharie

Nice and clean interface but I was unable to add a file to a request. Either it's not possible or I just couldn't figure it out.

★★★☆☆2016-01-21
agil

can we build get parameters in some input field and conveniently change it for testing? also collapsed node in returned data always back expanded after move to different api

★★★☆☆2016-01-15
Shahaji Patil

Not clearing response window when status code is 204

★★★☆☆2015-10-13
Richardson dos Santos Neves

Good, but not works for WebApi methods depends of Stringfied JSON. For sample, I can send a DTO object to WebAPI method.

★★★☆☆2015-08-04
Jan Pachol

Good app, but has some problems: line wrapping is not working properly; There sould be option for split request and response panels verticaly (horizontal split is not suitable for some cases); When switch to xml formatting, there remains initial json curly brackets

★★★☆☆2015-08-03
Victor Bastos

How to handle file upload?

Permissions (5)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser unlimitedStorage

Host Permissions

http://*/ Can access all websites https://*/ Can access all websites

Details

Version 2.7.0
Updated Aug 20, 2016
Size 2.95MiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026