diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/__tests__/workspace-card.test.ts b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/__tests__/workspace-card.test.ts
index cc21f896a..b0ac1fb7a 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/__tests__/workspace-card.test.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/__tests__/workspace-card.test.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 import { getVersionDisplayment } from '../workspace-card';
 
 describe('getVersionDisplayment', () => {
-  it('returns falsey values as-is', () => {
-    expect(getVersionDisplayment(undefined)).toEqual(undefined);
+  it('returns null, undefined, and empty string as-is', () => {
     expect(getVersionDisplayment(null)).toEqual(null);
+    expect(getVersionDisplayment(undefined)).toEqual(undefined);
     expect(getVersionDisplayment('')).toEqual('');
   });
 
+  it('returns numbers as strings', () => {
+    expect(getVersionDisplayment(0)).toEqual('v0'); // important to make sure we handle, since `0` is falsey
+    expect(getVersionDisplayment(1)).toEqual('v1');
+    expect(getVersionDisplayment(1.1)).toEqual('v1.1');
+  });
+
   it('does not add a `v` if the string starts with one', () => {
     expect(getVersionDisplayment('v1')).toEqual('v1');
     expect(getVersionDisplayment('victor')).toEqual('victor');
diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/workspace-card.tsx b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/workspace-card.tsx
index b32a14b89..891201d66 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/workspace-card.tsx
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/components/workspace-card.tsx
@@ -33,11 +33,20 @@ export interface WorkspaceCardProps {
   onSelect: (workspaceId: string, activity: GlobalActivity) => void;
 }
 
-export const getVersionDisplayment = (version?: string | null) => {
-  if (!version) {
+/** note: numbers are not technically valid (and, indeed, we throw a lint error), but we need to handle this case otherwise a user will not be able to import a spec with a malformed version and even _see_ that it's got the error. */
+export const getVersionDisplayment = (version?: string | number | null) => {
+  if (version === null || version === undefined || version === '') {
     return version;
   }
 
+  if (typeof version === 'number') {
+    console.warn(`OpenAPI documents must not use number data types for $.info.version, found ${version}`);
+    version = String(version);
+  } else if (typeof version !== 'string') {
+    console.error('unable to parse spec version');
+    return '';
+  }
+
   if (!version.startsWith('v')) {
     return `v${version}`;
   }