Postman
Postman is an API platform for developers and teams to build, test, and document APIs collaboratively.
About this data
Updated June 29, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
-25 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 129 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 9 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
Postman drew steady attention over the recent period, with commenters frequently praising its ease of use and overall feature set across 104 mentions. However, sentiment slipped slightly, as a notable share of discussion centered on bugs and reliability concerns, including reports of collection runs timing out and automated testing feeling unstable. Several mentions also called for missing features such as hierarchical configuration inheritance. The overall tone was mixed, leaning cautiously positive but tempered by recurring frustrations.
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 129 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 129 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...”
“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 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...”
“runCollection often times out, and there's no tool to execute a single request – making fully automated API testing unreliable. Description Problem Summary I'm using the official Postman MCP server (@postman/postman-mcp-server with --full mode) in Claude Code, trying to achieve *...”
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- Ease of use and feature appreciation drove the most praise but bugs and reliability concerns dominated complaints across the four-week window.
- Sentiment peaked in early June then declined steadily through the most recent week, reflecting a softening mood over the second half of the period.
- Opinion was divided on competitor comparisons, with the same framing appearing in both praise and criticism depending on the commenter.
- Reliability and automation gaps generated some of the sharpest frustration, with commenters questioning whether core workflows could be depended on.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Easy to use | 44 |
| Strong features | 36 |
| Feature requests | 15 |
| Good integrations | 12 |
| Compared to rivals | 4 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 17 |
| Reliability | 11 |
| Missing features | 9 |
| UI frustrations | 5 |
| Desktop app | 4 |
Discussion around Postman over the past four weeks was shaped primarily by a tension between genuine appreciation for its core usability and a growing undercurrent of frustration with reliability and missing functionality. Ease of use dominated the praise side, with a substantial share of commenters highlighting how quickly they could get up and running with request configuration and collection management. Feature praise also contributed meaningfully, and several mentions framed Postman favorably when drawing comparisons to competing tools, suggesting that for a portion of the user base the product still holds a clear reference-point status in the API testing space.
On the complaint side, bugs were the single most frequent source of friction, followed closely by concerns about missing features. Reliability surfaced as a distinct theme, and one sample mention illustrated this directly, with a commenter describing how automated API testing felt undermined by timeout behavior and a lack of granular execution controls. The UI also drew scattered criticism, and competitor comparisons appeared on the negative side as well, meaning the same framing that worked in Postman's favor among admirers was also being used against it by detractors.
The score trajectory across the window tells a meaningful directional story. Sentiment climbed into the low sixties during the last days of May and held there into early June, reflecting a period of relative positivity that coincided with a spike in discussion volume. From that peak the scores moved steadily downward through mid-June and into the most recent week, landing noticeably lower than where the window began. The decline was gradual rather than sharp, suggesting accumulated dissatisfaction rather than a single triggering event.
Opinion was most divided around feature completeness and the MCP server integration experience, where some commenters appeared engaged and constructive while others expressed that gaps in tooling were actively blocking workflows. The competitor comparison theme appearing on both sides of the ledger reinforced how split the community tone was on whether Postman remains the default choice or is being actively reconsidered.
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
-25 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 129 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 9 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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