GitHub is the better app overall, scoring 9.0 to 7.8. GitHub wins on 5 of the 5 scores, Postman on 0.
Developers and teams who want hosting, code review and CI in one place
API developers and QA teams who test and document APIs together
Score by score
The details
| Feature | GitHub | Postman |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| Category rank | #2 of 8 | #8 of 8 |
| Developer | GitHub (Microsoft) | Postman, Inc. |
| Pricing | Free + paid plans | Free + paid plans |
| Usable for free | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone & iPad | ✓ | — |
| Android | ✓ | — |
| Mac | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux | — | ✓ |
| Web | ✓ | ✓ |
Strengths and weaknesses
GitHub
- Industry-standard home for code and open source
- Actions automates builds, tests and deploys
- Generous free plan with unlimited private repos
- Feature sprawl makes settings hard to navigate
- Outages can stall your whole team's workflow
GitHub is the default home for open source and many company codebases, and its tools are hard to beat. Pull requests, code review, Issues and Projects cover the full workflow, and Actions runs your builds and deployments. Copilot adds AI code review and a coding agent that can open pull requests for you. Private repos are free. The catch is growing complexity, and an outage can stall your whole team.
Full GitHub review
Postman
- Covers the whole API lifecycle in one tool
- Easy to share collections with teammates
- Strong support for many API protocols
- Desktop app is heavy and can feel slow
- Most work is stored in Postman's cloud
Postman is the most complete tool for working with APIs. You can send requests, organize them into collections, write tests, generate docs, run mock servers and monitor endpoints, with support for REST, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSockets. Teams get shared workspaces and version control. The downsides are a heavy desktop app, constant nudges toward paid plans, and a push to store your work in Postman's cloud.
Full Postman review
