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Canonic vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
What is Canonic? A low code platform to craft APIs in minutes. It allows anyone to visually craft APIs in minutes. It is a low-code platform that lets you build, consume, manage, and scale your APIs along with the CMS and complete Documentation tailored for your needs. All without writing a single line of code!.
What is Insomnia REST Client? The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴. Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Canonic and Insomnia REST Client are primarily classified as "Low Code Platforms" and "API" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Canonic are:
- A powerful editor to model your content
- A CMS that makes publishing a breeze
- Extensible APIs
On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client provides the following key features:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
Insomnia REST Client is an open source tool with 14.8K GitHub stars and 908 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Insomnia REST Client's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Canonic
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux4
- Opensource3
- Vim and Emacs key map2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
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Cons of Canonic
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2