awesome-api-clients vs insomnium

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List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives (by stepci)

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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 (by ArchGPT)

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awesome-api-clients		insomnium
	Project
3	Mentions	11
339	Stars	3,200
6.5%	Growth	4.2%
6.1	Activity	8.6
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
	Language	JavaScript
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

awesome-api-clients

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-api-clients. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-01.

Awesome Postman and Insomnia alternatives
1 project | /r/FullStack | 5 Oct 2023

Here's the link: https://github.com/stepci/awesome-api-clientsCould you please give it a star, so more people can see it?
Show HN: Postman and Insomnia Alternatives
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023

insomnium

Posts with mentions or reviews of insomnium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

Ask HN: Alternatives to Postman?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
What do you use insomnia or postman and why ?
4 projects | /r/node | 9 Dec 2023
Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2023

A previous post linked to a privacy-focused fork of Insomnia known as Insomnium here: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium - and soon with local llm support
disclaimer: I'm the maintainer and my day job is fine-tuning llm
p.s. I will always keep insomnium 100% local & FOSS
Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023

I’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium
Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 2 Oct 2023
Show HN: Insomnium – 100% local and privacy-focus fork of Insomnia API client
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 1 Oct 2023

8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
Ask HN: How do you manage API collections using cURL?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2023

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
(IDK if it meets all your reqs, but check it out)
Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023

There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
and discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

What are some alternatives?

When comparing awesome-api-clients and insomnium you can also consider the following projects:

bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

PostmanTesting - This is my first repository created via POSTMAN with Github API.

Hoppscotch - Open source API development ecosystem.

Restfox - Offline-First Minimalistic HTTP & Socket Testing Client for the Web & Desktop

RecipeUI - Discover, test, and share APIs in seconds

Gotcha-HTTP-Client - A Powerful Postman / Paw Alternative

apidash - API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia.

fetchbook - Run and test your HTTP requests. Git friendly, 100% local.