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Galileo vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
Developers describe Galileo as "Analytics Platform for Monitoring, Visualizing and Inspecting API & Microservice Traffic". Galileo is an analytics platform for APIs that includes Realtime Logging, Request Replay, and Diff Comparisons. On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client is detailed as "The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client π΄". Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Galileo and Insomnia REST Client can be categorized as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Galileo are:
- API analytics
- API monitoring
- API Alerts
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 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Insomnia REST Client's open source repository on GitHub.
Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.
Pros of Galileo
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 Galileo
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
