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If anyone is looking to switch, I've far preferred using Insomnia to Postman https://insomnia.rest/

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As the creator of Insomnia, that makes me so happy to hear :)

I use Insomnia on a daily basis as does every engineer in my 5 man team. It's really incredible.

Thanks for your awesome work. Aside from upgrading from the free version, is there any other way to show support?

The best ways to help are to keep sharing it with others and participate on the open source repo

Thanks for your work! It's been a real help. I've been using it before Kong.

No problem! I'm so happy to have made such an impact on your day-to-day

Does Insomnia offer hosted documentation of the API collections? That's the feature which keeps me using Postman.

Not remotely the same, but we use Swagger on the test servers.

There's a nice community project that generates documentation that can be hosted https://github.com/jozsefsallai/insomnia-documenter

I'm not sure if accessibility is something you focused on or if you just got lucky but according to this thread I need to give insomnia a try since Postman is not concerned with making there software even marginally usable if your blind. https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/31...

It looks like e2ee data sync is a paid feature.

Does the free version come with no data sync at all or just not end to end encrypted?

We moved from postman to insomnia a year ago and have loved it due to its simplicity and ease of use. The ability to use the "environment" variables is amazingly flexible since you can use them in almost every text field.

I have to agree, I've been enjoying insomnia more, especially with the dark theme. I'm also glad the developer makes enough income on it. I also enjoy using Mockoon since it keeps a history of requests I make when I proxy it, very useful. I wish I knew a good proxying API tool that was a little more autonomous and feature full.

Check out burp suite.

Try Fiddler if you're on Windows.

Charles Proxy has been pretty good to me - it's straightforward with little setup. It could use more features but it does exactly what it advertises.

I use it for security testing our website, making sure form data is properly handled, etc. It's also good for reverse engineering apis and can replace files with your own too.

Does the recent Kong acquisition not concern you at all?

I'm looking to switch, but the ties to Kong make me nervous investing in the platform. Presumably because they might eventually make it always for-pay and/or focus on more enterprise-y features that I'm not interested in.

I would love to hear what others think.

The one thing I'll shine light on here is that open source has been a huge benefit to Insomnia thus far. It has allowed the community to drive decisions, submit feedback, and make the application much more robust. Kong was born from the same model for its core product so we no plans to change that. A thriving open source community is a huge advantage.

If you're curious, you can read more about the acquisition from my perspective on my blog: https://schier.co/blog/indie-to-acquisition

Thanks, Greg. I appreciate the candor, and I'll definitely take a look. It's great to hear that there are no plans to change how open the product is.

I switched to Insomnia because I was having a miserable time with Postman being able to resolve hostnames created as part of a Docker network on my local machine. There were a bunch of stack overflow and similar posts about how to configure it properly and nothing worked.

Insomnia didn't need any configuration at all, and the UI is so much less bloated and confusing

I use Insomnia too but wished it saved a history of my past requests. Other than that, it's actually much much faster than PostMan. I wonder if it's because it doesn't save my request history...

You can view your history in the top right of the response pane

It does. Check the right side panel above the response. There’s a history icon (I think it may be next to the response time? Not at my computer.)

Oh wow. First time I found out about that. Then it's clear: Insomnia is 100X better than that bloated Postman!

My team and I switched about a year ago now, haven't looked back. Postman was getting too bloated with features that tended towards a QA, or possibly even non-technical audience.

Thanks to gschier and the Insomnia team for simplifying my team's life.

Does insomnia allow you to set the mime types for each part of a multi-part request? That's one feature that Postman doesn't have that has irked me a bit.

Does Insomnia do server mock'ing, API documentation, or monitoring?

It doesn't seem to do all the things I am using Postman for.

Same! I’ve been happy with Insomnia!

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