How is Insomnia any different? It's basically an OSS carbon copy of Postman.

piaste · on Feb 2, 2022

I switched to Insomnia about a year ago for two main reasons:

- Didn't choke when having ~50 request 'tabs' open

- Didn't try to sell me shit

Granted, Postman had quite a lot more tools in its box for scripting, testing, sharing etc. but I didn't need those.

Insomnia has got a bit fatter since then, but it remains more responsive than Postman was.

BoorishBears · on Feb 2, 2022

You asked how it's different then stated how it's different.

Because it's OSS they didn't feel the need to bog down a perfectly functional product to drive a valuation up.

It's a carbon copy of what Postman started as.

phgn · on Feb 2, 2022

That's what I want. A local-only Postman without too many features or configuration overhead. Insomnia is almost perfect for that.