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

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.

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.

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