Postman Reviews

Summary: All in all it is the best API interface and tools for testing, I have used many tools but this comes out to be the best overall application which fulfills all my needs.

Positive: I have used Postman for more than 5 years now and never have i faced any lags or stutters in my usage, even with low end computers.
Earlier it was available as only desktop application but now it is also available as web application making it more accessible and easy to use, i can login from anywhere and test my endpoints. It keeps my collection and environments saved so i wont have to worry about that also.

Negative: If you are using an free account it does not allow collaboration with many people. I can only think of this cons as of now, also, if you have a company or do serious freelance work you would have business account anyways.

Summary: Overall, Postman is the most intuitive and easy-to-use application that provides an API interface and supports all the features that are needed to test the APIs.

Positive: 1. The application's user interface is intuitive and easy to learn for a new user.
2. Collection and environment can be easily imported.
3. It gives detailed information about each API call with a brief response body which can also be converted into different formats like raw, text or JSON.
4. It supports dark mode which is very useful for all of us developers who likes to work late nights.

Negative: I have faced a weird problem with Postman, sometimes when I do an API call I modify the request body and does not save it, and if I close the app and reopen it the request body and API endpoint gets replaced with some random endpoint from the collection that I am using.

Summary: Overall, Postman is the simplest and easiest to learn API testing tool available. The user interface is clean and simple. It also provides an interface for the API.

Positive: - Postman is the simplest application for testing APIs.
- It allows importing the API code into any major programming language.
- It is easy to install, configure and get started.
- The user interface of the application well-built and is suitable for beginners.

Negative: - The enterprise version of the application is priced quite higher and makes it unaffordable for small organizations.
- It does not allow testing more than one API at once.

Summary: Overall, Postman is a tool that provides an interface to test different types of APIs without the need of front end. It shows both raw JSON data with ease.

Positive: - Postman allows testing rest API of different types all at one place.
- The user interface of the tool is designed in way that it shows all the necessary information like HTTP head and status code clearly.
- It can be easily configured and ready to work in no time.
- postman ends the hassle to rely on front end to test the APIs.

Negative: - There is nothing to dislike about the tool, everything is organized and works perfectly fine.

Summary: Overall, Postman provides an interface to test various API calls like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. The method calling with postman is straightforward and easy. It is also rich in features.

Positive: - Postman makes it really effortless to to test get request and post calls.
- It supports multiple headers and raw data.
- It is easy to configure and use.
- There are different modes to chose from, such as JSON and XML.
- Postman makes the making of HTTP requesting and integration process a piece of cake.

Negative: - There not a lot of useful documentation is available about the functioning of the tool.
- The user interface of the software is a bit confusing initially.

Summary: Highly recommended! The ability to download API packages from the community is a nice bonus. We use it almost daily.

Positive: This is our go-to solution for API testing. It is easy to set up endpoints and save them to a shared workspace.

Negative: Would like to see a better mock server implementation.

Summary: Postman is a great developer tool for storing, testing and running requests.
A plus is also the web app you can run online, sync accounts and also have a team account as well.

Positive: Postman is an excellent software for running APIs.
Usage for me, it excelled at was running quick requests and then being able to transform the call into multiple formats.
For example, by running a cURL request, you can get the NodeJS, Python, Axios code quite easily.
You can also store requests in folders, something that always came in handy was Postman storing a history of previous made requests, so if you didn't save or lost a request, you could always go back to it.

Negative: There are no real cons to Postman, it does its job exceptionally well with every feature.

Summary: Postman is overall a great tool for testing all kind of APIs with different requests in a mocking environment or on a live server. It is available on all the platforms and operating systems.

Positive: The user interface and experience of the application is simplified and curated in such a way that all the necessary features gets highlighted on the screen. It has all the required tools to test the APIs extensively and further share or collaborate with other team members on a project.
It has all the requests options for testing like, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. The load time of the requests are pretty quick. All in all, a great tool to test APIs on a live server as well as in a mocking environment.

Negative: For testing SOAP APIs, there are still a lot of improvements needed to be done in the application.

Summary: Overall an excellent tool for both testing and documenting REST APIs, but may not be the right choice if working with GraphQL endpoints.

Positive: Very easy to get started.
Excellent documentation and built in tutorial.
Highly configurable and automatable.
Makes sharing API specs with team members very easy.
Generous free tier.

Negative: Desktop app's startup time and memory footprint could be improved.
GraphQL support is less robust.

Summary: Overall, Postman is a necessary tool in backend and API development in any organization. It has a vast number of useful features that enables the user to test and mock APIs.

Positive: - Postman provides an intuitive platform to test APIs of all types.
- It helps in getting raw as well as JSON response for the APIs.
- It has various levels of organization for collections in folders and subfolders.
- It enables the developers to test the APIs via mocking any CRUD operation.
- The application is easy to set up and use.

Negative: - The only shortcoming I felt while using Postman that it does not have feature for generating random data for testing, otherwise, it is an all-in-one API testing tool.

Summary: Overall, Postman is the best API testing platform that gets the job done without complicating things too much, it is a great application for beginners because of its simple UI and can be used for bigger projects as well considering it feature-rich and consistently stable nature.

Positive: 1. Postman helps in testing APIs in both XML and JSON format.
2. There are some unique and useful features like mocking server that helps in testing APIs by mocking an actual server which eliminates the chances of failed response.
3. The API response can be visualized in multiple formats like raw, JSON, XML and plain text.
4. The user interface of the application is beginner-friendly and easy to get started.
5. Multiple workspaces can be created to test the API of multiple projects without mixing them up.

Negative: 1. The only area in which I see postman lacking is the RAM management, especially when using it as the application instead of web app.

Summary: Overall, Postman is an excellent tool to test APIs of different methods. It is easy to use and has an intuitive user interface. It is also fast and reliable to use.

Positive: - Postman provides an interactive and immersive user interface to test APIs.
- It covers all the API methods like POST, GET, PUT and UPDATE.
- It is available on all the platforms, so the accessibility becomes easy.
- All the results and tests can be saved on cloud for future references.
- Various virtual environments can be created to test APIs.

Negative: - The only limitation of using Postman as an API testing tool, that it is only limited to testing rest APIs.

Summary: Overall, Postman is a great tool to mock and test APIs of any format. The application is fast and easy-to-use, with multiple useful features.

Positive: - Postman best feature is the simulation of ready to use API calls whenever it is required for testing or development purpose.
- The application is quick and has low load times.
- It can be used to test API in raw or JSON formats.
- It is user-friendly and secure to use.

Negative: - The user interface of the application need a bit of modification and improvement in terms of usage simplicity.

Summary: Postman is a tool which is simple enough to be used by beginner developers but has enough features to also cater the experienced developers. It is an overall packaged tool with simplicity and features.

Positive: - Postman provides the simplest user interface to create API requests and test the APIs.
- It has some unique and quite useful features like API call simulation.
- Along with testing is also a great tool to develop APIs.
- It is simple to use and provides services which are user-friendly.
- The configuration of the application is the easiest and just take few clicks to start functioning.

Negative: Postman is the easiest to use API testing interface. It doesn't have any cons in my opinion.

Summary: Overall, Postman is an easy-to-use application to test any type of API created on any programming language. It also helps in sharing the collections with other team members.

Positive: 1. Postman provides an intuitive user interface to test and APIs.
2. The application is user-friendly with simple UI.
3. It is lightweight and can be used on any system without any lags.
4. It helps in converting API request of almost all the major programming languages.

Negative: 1. The error logs are not detailed sometimes.
2. The integration support can be improved.