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I used to recommend https://insomnia.rest/ as it was a free, sleek alternative... Alas it's been bought by Kong and enterprise'd up the same way. Not as bad yet, but can't be long.

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For the time being it's still OK. It asked me once to try the "premium" version or whatever it's called, I said no, and it never bothered me again.

I don't know what licence Postman uses. A quick search on GitHub didn't turn up the source of the app on the Postman Labs page. Insomnia is MIT [0], so it could still be forked if Kong got decided to stop supporting the free version.

[0] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE

I actually wasn't aware of it being open source at all, thanks. It's not mentioned anywhere on their page, gives me a bit more confidence :)

I still like Insomnia too.

Why would you think Kong would spoil it? Their main product is an API gateway, it makes sense to have a nice HTTP client under their umbrella. Kong is also open source and almost all of their plugins are freely available. I actually tried (and still use) Insomnia _because_ it was affiliated with Kong. YMMV but I've had no complaints about Insomnia at all.

Am I having a Mandela Effect moment or did Insomnia used to be Mac only? I remember seeing it a long time ago and being disappointed I couldn't use it. Now I'm doubting my memory, lol.

Either way thanks for the recommendation/reminder for Insomnia, it looks so much better than the current version of postman.

You are not alone! I just checked the Git history and it seems we were indeed mistaken, at least since 2017. It might have been just hard to see from the website.

"Insomnia is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and can be downloaded from http://insomnia.rest/download/"

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/commit/23cca8c42b80aa6d9de2...

You aren’t thinking of Paw, are you? https://paw.cloud/

Insomnia is great, I use it daily. Highly reccommend.

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