diff --git a/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js b/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
index 927b13314..81bcaca7e 100644
--- a/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
+++ b/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
@@ -27,14 +27,13 @@ const formatResponse = (data, mode, filter) => {
     let isValidJSON = false;
 
     try {
-      isValidJSON =
-        typeof JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) === 'object' || typeof JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) === 'string';
+      isValidJSON = typeof JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) === 'object'
     } catch (error) {
       console.log('Error parsing JSON: ', error.message);
     }
 
     if (!isValidJSON && typeof data === 'string') {
-      return data;
+      return JSON.stringify(data);
     }
 
     if (filter) {
diff --git a/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js b/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
index 9e37c8289..479cb0d04 100644
--- a/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
+++ b/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
@@ -366,7 +366,10 @@ const parseDataFromResponse = (response, disableParsingResponseJson = false) =>
     // Filter out ZWNBSP character
     // https://gist.github.com/antic183/619f42b559b78028d1fe9e7ae8a1352d
     data = data.replace(/^\uFEFF/, '');
-    if (!disableParsingResponseJson) {
+    if (
+      !disableParsingResponseJson
+      && !(data.startsWith("\"") && data.endsWith("\"")) // a quoated string is also a vaild json but we want to show it as a quoated string only (parsing removes the quoates)
+    ) {
       data = JSON.parse(data);
     }
   } catch { }