Postman
Postman is an API platform for developers and teams to build, test, and document APIs collaboratively.
About this data
Updated August 3, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
-28 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 130 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 10 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
Weekly Sentiment Trend
Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.
This week in public discussion
Sentiment around Postman held steady over the recent period, with commenters frequently praising its ease of use and various features driving a notable share of positive mentions. However, bugs and reliability concerns drew recurring complaints, with several users noting issues around automated API testing and timeouts. Some discussion touched on feature gaps and comparisons to alternative tools, including at least one commenter who described building their own replacement out of frustration with the desktop experience.
Read the deeper analysisAI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Sentiment mix by week
How the tone of public discussion splits each week.
Most-discussed praise
Most-discussed complaints
Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.
How Postman compares
Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Coding.
Where the mentions come from
Share of the 130 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 130 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.
“Postman fails to start and stuck in the background (Windows 11). ### Is there an existing issue for this? - [x] I have searched the tracker for existing similar issues and I know that duplicates will be closed Describe the Issue Postman fails to launch after running a performance...”
“Not much to say. I work on windows, I hate postman, I need to manage bunch of .http files across multiple repositories.So I built a fast and native tool for myself and published it if you want to try it too.Any feedback would be nice, I really want it to be The obvious native Win...”
“Postman Crashes on startup on macOS 26.4.1 (25E253). ### Is there an existing issue for this? - [x] I have searched the tracker for existing similar issues and I know that duplicates will be closed Describe the Issue I was having this problem with the version on my Mac. I downloa...”
“Open-Source the Postman Desktop App, CLI, and Core Ecosystem to Resolve Sync Friction and Tooling Stagnation. ### Is there an existing request for this feature? - [x] I have searched the existing issues for this feature request and I know that duplicates will be closed Is your fe...”
“Postman 12.12.3 crashes on startup on Windows 11 unless GPU sandbox is disabled. ### Is there an existing issue for this? - [x] I have searched the tracker for existing similar issues and I know that duplicates will be closed Describe the Issue Description Postman Desktop stopped...”
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- Ease of use was the dominant positive theme, generating the most praise mentions across the window.
- Sentiment climbed from low early readings into the sixties in late May and early June before softening toward the upper forties in the most recent high-volume week.
- Bug reports and reliability concerns were the top complaint themes, with automated and programmatic use cases drawing the sharpest criticism.
- Opinion was most divided between casual users who expressed satisfaction and power users who found the tool unreliable for complex workflows.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Easy to use | 45 |
| Strong features | 37 |
| Feature requests | 15 |
| Good integrations | 12 |
| Compared to rivals | 5 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 17 |
| Reliability | 11 |
| Missing features | 9 |
| UI frustrations | 5 |
| Desktop app | 4 |
Discussion about Postman over this four-week window was anchored most heavily by ease-of-use praise, which accounted for the single largest cluster of mentions and reflected a consistent baseline of goodwill among commenters who found the tool accessible for everyday API work. Feature praise followed closely, with several mentions highlighting specific capabilities in positive terms. At the same time, a meaningful share of discussion was forward-looking rather than celebratory, with feature requests and integration feedback suggesting that engaged users see room the product has not yet filled.
The score trajectory tells a story of a slow climb followed by a plateau and mild retreat. Early in the window, sentiment readings were quite low and drawn from very thin mention volume, so those data points carry limited weight. The discussion picked up sharply in late May and carried into early June, where scores settled into the low-to-mid sixties and mention counts were at their peak. From that point the trajectory softened, with the most recent high-volume week landing in the upper forties, implying that the tone of conversation grew somewhat more critical as participation broadened.
Bugs were the dominant complaint theme by a clear margin, and several mentions pointed specifically at reliability concerns around automated or programmatic use cases. Commenters describing timeout behavior and difficulties executing isolated requests conveyed a sense of frustration that practical workflows were being interrupted. The desktop application drew its own thread of negative commentary separate from general bug reports, suggesting the platform experience itself was a point of friction for some users.
Opinion was divided most visibly around the product's fit for power users and workflow automation. While casual or intermediate users appeared largely satisfied based on the praise distribution, commenters working in more automated or integrated contexts expressed sharper dissatisfaction. The competitor-comparison mentions, though small in count, indicated that at least some portion of the discussion was actively weighing alternatives, which added a pointed undercurrent to what was otherwise a moderately positive overall conversation.
AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Member perspectives
Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.
Overall Pulse Score
-28 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 130 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 10 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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