Realm Browser vs FBSimulatorControl

Realm Browser

DEPRECATED - Realm Browser for Mac OS X has been replaced by realm-studio which is cross platform. (by realm)

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FBSimulatorControl

idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices (by facebook)

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Realm Browser		FBSimulatorControl
	Project
-	Mentions	3
504	Stars	4,427
-	Growth	0.9%
0.0	Activity	8.4
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Objective-C	Language	Objective-C
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Realm Browser

Posts with mentions or reviews of Realm Browser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Realm Browser yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

FBSimulatorControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of FBSimulatorControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Mobile app testing easier with Maestro (React Native)
5 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2023

Facebook IDB: https://github.com/facebook/idb
Which IDB commands do you use the most?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 Apr 2023

If you are using IDB (iOS Development Bridge), which commands do you use the most?
Test your react native app with maestro
5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022

Running flows on iOS Simulator requires installation of Facebook IDB.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Realm Browser and FBSimulatorControl you can also consider the following projects:

DBDebugToolkit - Set of easy to use debugging tools for iOS developers & QA engineers.

appledoc - Objective-c code Apple style documentation set generator.

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

Benchmark - The Benchmark⏲ module provides methods to measure and report the time used to execute Swift code.

GDPerformanceView-Swift - Shows FPS, CPU and memory usage, device model, app and iOS versions above the status bar and report FPS, CPU and memory usage via delegate.

Peek - All new design. Inspect your iOS application at runtime.

SwiftKitten

Shark - Swift CLI for strong-typing images, colors, storyboards, fonts and localizations

Struct - Xcode projects on steroids

Attabench - Microbenchmarking app for Swift with nice log-log plots

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project