Insomnia's source code is FOSS, there are forks since the company's recent changes.

I have recently tried Bruno, but it lacked some basic UI features I use regularly, like file picker UI for uploading a multipart file.

I also gave Recipe Ul a look, but I did not see an option to switch environments. (Haven't installed it and tried it, just went through the docs)

So I settled on Hopsscotch. Though their desktop UI is still in alpha, it looked good to me.

Check out Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/

I switched to it from insomnia and it has been pretty decent once I got used to it

What's wrong with postman?

You can just use normal .http files. There’s support in all jetbrains products, vs code, visual studio, jetbrains even wrote a cli tool for it. https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/04/http-client-tools-everywhere/

https://kenslearningcurve.com/tutorials/test-an-api-by-using-http-files-in-vscode/

The nice thing about http files is that you’re never going to be locked into some company’s standard. They’re literally all just plain text files.

MS is trying to create a standard. https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/29431

There’s also https://httpyac.github.io though I’ve never heard of anyone using it.

Anyway, moving away from these proprietary separate HTTP/REST call products is a good thing. Postman really led the enshittification in this area.

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@immortalgeek thanks for your help, however as @comfydecal recommended I decided to get some Insomnia fork https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

What is the problem with insomnia?