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Postman

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Postman is commercial API client software made by Postman, Inc. Its English Wikipedia article has about 1k readers a month on phones.

Made by
Postman, Inc.
Wikipedia readers on phones
1k a month
Source code
Closed

Website Wikipedia

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
An API client and platform for sending requests, organising collections, writing tests, mocking and documenting APIs.
Adopt it when
A team wants shared API collections, tests and documentation in one widely known tool.
Watch out
It pushes cloud sync and accounts, collaboration needs paid plans, and the app has grown heavy.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Desktop app, cloud service and command line
Built with
Electron
What the license allows
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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The description is the maker's own, quoted as written. Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.