When comparing GitHub for Mac vs Insomnia, the Slant community recommends Insomnia for most people. In the question“What are the best developer tools for Mac OSX?” Insomnia is ranked 15th while GitHub for Mac is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Insomnia is:
Response content and headers are presented in an accessible and readable format. JSON responses is prettified and can be filtered for for closer inspection.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great GUI for Github
Pro Detailed information about response
Response content and headers are presented in an accessible and readable format. JSON responses is prettified and can be filtered for for closer inspection.
Pro Plugins
e.g. Swagger validator.
Pro Can generate code
Generates code for more than 30 languages, including Curl, NodeJS, Go, Swift, Python, Java and C.
Pro GraphQL support
Cons
Con No support for commit signing
While Github itself offers full support and UI decorators for cryptographically signed commits, the Mac client does not support it, and errors out when trying to commit anything if you have signing enabled.