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Insomnia REST Client vs Restlet Studio: What are the differences?
Developers describe Insomnia REST Client as "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. On the other hand, Restlet Studio is detailed as "The first browser-based IDE for APIs". Packaged as a Chrome extension and accessible from any modern web browser, Restlet Studio instantly provides to any developer powerful API crafting capabilities. Through an intuitive interface, developers can visually define all the elements of a web API, and automatically generate the client SDK and server skeleton of their API.
Insomnia REST Client and Restlet Studio can be primarily classified as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Insomnia REST Client are:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
On the other hand, Restlet Studio provides the following key features:
- Visual Crafting of APIs
- RESTful APIs Made Easy
- No Wasted Configuration Time
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 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
Pros of Restlet Studio
- Powerful & intuitive API designer1
- GitHub Integration1
- Easy to used0
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Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
Cons of Restlet Studio
- Opaque Pricing Model0