Radoslav Stankov

Paw 3 - The most advanced API tool for Mac

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stevesun21
What's different compare to PostMan? I don't really interesting in its pricing model, I can have all basics feature free on PostMan, but I have to pay $40+ for this, it's this sounds right to you?
Simon Chiu
Would love a comparison of features of the two.
Radoslav Stankov
@stevesun21 I haven't played with Postman in a while. Paw imho have a better UI and feels more like a native macOS app. It was more polished than Postman, the last time, I used Postman. For me, Paw power comes from the small and hidden featured features. For example when you paste the following: ``` Header1: Value1 Header2: Value2 ``` In a header field it, Paw would detect this is several headers and values and would handle it correctly. Also I really like that I can just create a `.paw` file and send it to collage to work with.
Andrei Oprisan
@stevesun21 Paw is also built for teams and collaboration. You can version the various API calls and work on these things as a team, while sharing credentials securely. Very useful in complex integration testing. Generally Paw has more powerful features on saving user credentials within the app and dynamically choosing them based on the use case (i.e. dev vs qa vs prod) and tons of extensions that allow you to even write some simple JavaScript to daisy chain functions and other calls together to test things out. You will never get that from PostMan, which is also a great tool, but much more limited scope. YMMV.
stevesun21
@rstankov Yea, I know what you talk about. In PostMan, they call Bulk Edit and not just header, you can even do url parameters as well.
stevesun21
@andreioprisan In Postman, the different environment setup is come for free. And if you pay, you also can get the team features with PostMan as well. My question is, why I pay Paw, just for some features (good enough for sole developer/freelancer/early startup) I can get from PostMan for free?
Radoslav Stankov
My favorite API development tool just got a major update :) Especially Paw for Teams is quite interesting feature.
Camillo Visini
This looks great, I'm a sucker for beautiful UIs
Sebastian Kreutzberger
Paw works great, feels great and has a consistent stream of updates. Plus it's a native app which always wins for me over web 💯👍
Jeremy Pinnix
Been using Paw for years. It is an indispensable tool for API development/testing. Paw 3 is a fantastic upgrade!
Jordan Singer
I've used Paw for every API I've ever interfaced with or built. A++
Derek Petersen
No built-in HAR support for import/export makes me sad :( This would allow seamlessly transferring files between Chrome/Firefox/Safari dev tools, Charles, etc...
Matthaus Woolard
@tuxracer We have Har import https://paw.cloud/extensions/HAR... and export will come the 2 weeks.
Andrei Oprisan
@hishnash @tuxracer really looking forward to full import/export support as well
Matthaus Woolard
@andreioprisan @tuxracer We released the HAR exporter a week ago https://paw.cloud/extensions/HAR...
Joe Blau
Hey Paw Crew... Thanks for the amazing app update. One note: The font in the preview window is MICROSCOPIC. It looks like the URL are 6pt font is there a way you can make it larger?
Micha Mazaheri
@joe_blau In the preview panel at the bottom? If so that's just a personal preference (by default it's 11px Menlo font, maybe have you changed it in the app's Prefs?), so you can reset it in Paw menu > Preferences > Formatting. But you can also quickly zoom in/out by clicking on any field, and then pressing Cmd- or Cmd+ I hope it solves that issue.
Dharmendra Verma
I feel postman is much powerful free tool. Good enough for Startups or individual developers. Why anyone is paying 50$ for this i can't understand.
Fred Carlsen
@dharmendravit As others touched on in previous comments, it all comes down to work style, productivity gains, and personal preference. I used Postman a lot before, but i'm never going back. Paw just solves lots of annoying illogical flow problems in the UI, and doesn't feel like it's blocking me from doing my work.
Peter Fox
@dharmendravit as a web developer I hate using browsers for developer tools. I get for some people that's no a problem but for me the only free tool was like CocoaRest client which worked but was pretty basic and I find PAW a nice alternative. The UI of postman looks a bit cluttered to me when I have used it as well.
Hugo Müller-Downing
Paw is one of my most favourite and most used apps - I couldn't live without it! Just last Friday I used it during a showcase 👌
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