Installation

You can install Insomnia on a wide variety of platforms. If you have not downloaded a copy of Insomnia, do so first by visiting the Downloads Page.

Mac

The Mac application is a disk image .dmg installer and can be installed by double clicking the file. This will install Insomnia to your /Applications folder.

Insomnia can also be installed using Brew Cask via the insomnia package.

brew cask install insomnia

Windows

The Windows application is a generic installer .exe. Double click the installer file to install Insomnia.

Linux

There are many distributions of Linux in the world. Insomnia should be able to run on the most popular ones.

Ubuntu/Debian
There is a Debian package hosted on Bintray that can be added and installed using apt-get. You can also manually download the latest debian package  here.

# Add to sources
echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/getinsomnia/Insomnia /" \
    | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insomnia.list

# Add public key used to verify code signature
wget --quiet -O - https://insomnia.rest/keys/debian-public.key.asc \
    | sudo apt-key add -

# Refresh repository sources and install Insomnia
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install insomnia

Other Linux Distributions
Snap is a new cross-platform package format that supports convenient auto-updates. You can view Insomnia on Snapcraft or install it directly with the following command.

sudo snap install insomnia

There is also a portable AppImage package that can be run directly as an executable. Double click the package or run it from the command line.

Troubleshooting

Here are some issues that have caused problems for Linux users in the past

• /tmp folder must allow execution
• missing libcurl dependency
• after installed snap, you might need systemctl restart snapd.service (More details)
• Insomnia is only compatible with 64-bit systems

Previous Versions

To roll-back, you can download a previous version from the Releases Page. Keep in mind that this process is only intended for debugging and emergencies, as the app will try to update itself after it launches.