desktop VS insomnia

Compare desktop vs insomnia and see what are their differences.

desktop

Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. (by desktop)

insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. (by Kong)
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desktop insomnia
214 223
19,045 32,834
1.4% 1.7%
9.9 9.7
5 days ago 1 day ago
TypeScript JavaScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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.

desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

insomnia

Posts with mentions or reviews of insomnia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing desktop and insomnia you can also consider the following projects:

Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.

bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

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

insomnium - 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

postman-app-support - Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

redoc - 📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

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

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

django-rest-framework - Web APIs for Django. 🎸