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Pusher vs Machinable: What are the differences?
Developers describe Pusher as "Hosted APIs to build realtime apps with less code". Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features. On the other hand, Machinable is detailed as "Open-source Back end-as-a-Service". It provides a RESTful interface to your app's Users and Data. Quickly define and spin-up API endpoints that validate user data so you can focus on the Frontend Experience.
Pusher and Machinable can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Pusher are:
- Easily build scalable in-app notifications, chat, realtime graphs, geotracking and more in your web & mobile apps with our hosted pub/sub messaging API.
- Send programmable push notifications to iOS and Android devices with delivery and open rate tracking built in.
- Easily add 1-1 and group Chat to your web & mobile apps. Presence, message storage, rich media, notifications, typing indicators and more.
On the other hand, Machinable provides the following key features:
- Design and implement your user experience, visualize and test with a mock backend
- A great starting point for your web or mobile application. Focus on your idea and execution
- Import data for quick visualization and consumption
Machinable is an open source tool with 25 GitHub stars and 3 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Machinable's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Machinable
Pros of Pusher
- An easy way to give customers realtime features55
- Websockets40
- Simple34
- Easy to get started with27
- Free plan25
- Heroku Add-on12
- Easy and fast to configure and to understand11
- JSON9
- Happy6
- Azure Add-on6
- Support5
- Push notification4
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Cons of Machinable
Cons of Pusher
- Costly10