Insomnia: [Feature] Multi-Window Support

[njleonzhang]

can I open multi insomnia instance in mac for different workspace?

5.12.4.1752

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[gschier]

Multiple windows are not currently supported at this time but hopefully this will be possible in the future.

As a (very hacky) workaround on Mac, you can duplicate the application with a different name, which will let you start two separate instances.

[njleonzhang]

@gschier tnx for response. wait for this feature, tnx.

[Fyb3roptik]

Any chance this gets bumped up in the todo list? This feature would be great!

[gschier]

Still on the list. There's actually a surprisingly large amount of work to do to make this work

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[Fyb3roptik]

Please keep alive!

[nyel-gh]

still waiting ...

[alatella87]

+1

[jatinhariani]

+1

[Fyb3roptik]

@gschier Lets reactivate this please!

[dbodow]

+1

Or, if you find another good way to have a user work with multiple requests at once, that works too. I need to be able to see data from one endpoint and use it to play around with another endpoint side-by-side.

[danlugo92]

+1

[CallMeLaNN]

Insomnia is the best especially about the simplicity of the UI, plain json environment, E2EE and full GraphQL support.

I'm looking for multi-window support for a long time. This is the only missing feature in Insomnia and it is the only blocker for my team to get Teams plan and keep using multiple tools until now. Having many APIs for OIDC, GraphQL and REST from many backends require many open windows/tabs during API development of a feature.

I think the first step for Insomnia team is to describe the technical challenges other than creating electron new BrowserWindow, so we can look into this issue.

[raevilman]

On macOS, I am using below to launch an extra Insomnia instance. Works fine for me.

open -n -a "insomnia"