Where Does Insomnia Store Workspaces and Data?
Insomnia local app data on Windows, macOS and Linux, and what syncs to your account.
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Insomnia syncs workspaces, requests and environments to your account when signed in, with the local folder holding cache, logs and offline copies. Design documents and scratch collections without sync live only on disk.
Export workspaces to Git before relying on local state. The app data folder is a fallback for crash recovery, not a sync replacement.
Where Insomnia stores this, by platform
%APPDATA%\Insomnia
Holds the local database, backups, logs and plugin state. Signed-in workspaces re-download from your account. Copy the folder with Insomnia closed before reinstalls.
~/Library/Application Support/Insomnia
Same local database and backups role. Reach it through Finder Go > Go to Folder.
~/.config/Insomnia
Same layout as the other builds. Check the backups subfolder first when recovering after a crash.
Frequently asked questions
Will reinstalling Insomnia delete my requests?
Not if you synced or exported them. Local-only scratch work lives in the folders above, so export to file or Git first.
How do I version control Insomnia collections?
Export workspaces as files or enable Git sync per workspace. The local database is not diffable, so file exports are the reviewable copy.
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