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  1. insomnium

    Discontinued 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

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  3. insomnia

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

    Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

    It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590

    However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been created.

  4. restclient.el

    Discontinued HTTP REST client tool for emacs

  5. RecipeUI

    Discontinued Discover, test, and share APIs in seconds

    When I went looking for alternatives to Insomnia I was pleasantly surprised to see that RecipeUI[1] will let paste in curl commands with various flags etc. and parse those to generate new entries, pretty slick.

    1: https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI

  6. Hoppscotch

    Open source API development ecosystem.

  7. NeDB

    The JavaScript Database, for Node.js, nw.js, electron and the browser

    Yes! I plan to maintain it long-term! I will be rolling out some feature improvements and updates these few weeks.

    I still think Kong did a good job in crafting the product. I started using Insomnia in my previous company 3 years ago and our team loved it.

    What happened recently felt a little bit like the Unity fiasco (of course, in a much smaller scale). Though as a user I would say Kong had taken a bad turn, I'm still grateful to them for open-sourcing such a fantastic product.

    One of the reasons I forked it was because I've read the code and I think it's quite nicely written overall (but unfortunately things like nedb that was used is no longer maintained https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb so it's probably wise to swap out at some point)

  8. apidash

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

    Added API Dash (an open source API client alternative) - https://github.com/foss42/apidash

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  10. jaymakes11

    Created a GitHub list of alternatives: https://github.com/stars/jaymakes11/lists/insomnia-alternati...

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