Postman
The API tool that became an everything tool - and Insomnia users know why that's bad
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Interface review
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3.2Desktop app screenshots across collections, flows, and collaboration
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2.9Community sentiment increasingly negative on bloat, professional reviews note feature creep, marketplace mixed (3,400 data points)
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Postman was the best API testing tool ever built. Then it decided to become an API development platform, then a collaboration tool, then a testing framework, then a documentation generator. Each addition made the core experience worse. The app is now slow, the free tier requires sign-in (outrageous for a local tool), and the interface has more tabs and panels than a NASA control room. The fundamental irony: a tool for testing simplicity became the opposite of simple.
What earns the score
- +Core request builder is still powerful
- +Collection organization is well-designed
- +Environment variable management is useful
- +API documentation generation is convenient
What holds it back
- –Forced sign-in for a local tool is hostile
- –Performance has degraded significantly
- –Feature bloat has made the interface overwhelming
- –Free tier limitations push toward unnecessary collaboration features
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