Insomnia REST Client vs Motty vs Reqres

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Insomnia REST Client

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Motty

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Reqres

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Decisions about Insomnia REST Client, Motty, and Reqres
Stephen Fox
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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.

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Pros of Insomnia REST Client
Pros of Motty
Pros of Reqres
  • 16
    Easy to work with
  • 11
    Great user interface
  • 6
    Works with GraphQL
  • 4
    Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • 3
    Opensource
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    Vim and Emacs key map
  • 2
    Preserves request templates
  • 0
    Does not have history feature
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    • 2
      Fake data
    • 2
      RESTful API
    • 1
      Open source
    • 1
      Always-on
    • 1
      Rapid prototyping of interfaces
    • 1
      Language agnostic
    • 1
      Hosted on Digital Ocean

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    Cons of Insomnia REST Client
    Cons of Motty
    Cons of Reqres
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      Do not have team sharing options
    • 2
      Do not store credentials in HTTP
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        What is Insomnia REST Client?

        Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

        What is Motty?

        Motty provides the simpler way to test your client services. It is a web application that gives you ability to create your own custom responses, so you can intuitively and easily mock http responses.

        What is Reqres?

        A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.

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