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Gitbook vs Postman: What are the differences?

What is Gitbook? Document Everything! For you, your users and your team. It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.

What is Postman? Only complete API development environment. Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Gitbook can be classified as a tool in the "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category, while Postman is grouped under "API Tools".

According to the StackShare community, Postman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2419 company stacks & 11498 developers stacks; compared to Gitbook, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

Advice on Gitbook and Postman

StackShare Editors

May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 229.2K views

Needs advice

Postman

Apiary

and

Swagger UI

From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh

Tech Lead at ucreate.it · May 6, 2019 | 8 upvotes · 257.2K views

Recommends

Postman

Founder and Lightning

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

Sadik Ay

Backend Engineer · Aug 31, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 228.6K views

Recommends

Postman

I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

Jadenko

May 3, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 245.4K views

Recommends

Swagger UI

European Commission

I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

Decisions about Gitbook and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 229.7K views

Chose

Postman

over

Insomnia REST Client

Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

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Pros of Gitbook

Pros of Postman

3
Prueba
2
Integrated high-quality editor

486
Easy to use
369
Great tool
274
Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
155
Easy setup, looks good
143
The best api workflow out there
53
History feature
53
It's the best
44
Adds real value to my workflow
42
Great interface that magically predicts your needs
34
The best in class app
11
Can save and share script
9
Fully featured without looking cluttered
7
Collections
7
Option to run scrips
7
Global/Environment Variables
6
Dead simple and useful. Excellent
6
Shareable Collections
6
Dark theme easy on the eyes
5
Awesome customer support
5
Great integration with newman
4
Simple
4
The test script is useful
4
Documentation
3
Easy as pie
3
Saves responses
3
Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
3
This has simplified my testing significantly
2
API-network
2
I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
2
Mocking API calls with predefined response
1
Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
1
Graph
1
Postman Runner CI Integration
1
Now supports GraphQL
1
Continuous integration using newman
1
Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
0
<a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
0
Runner

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Cons of Gitbook

Cons of Postman

1
No longer Git or Open
1
Just sync with GitHub

9
Stores credentials in HTTP
7
Poor GraphQL support
7
Bloated features and UI
7
Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
3
Expensive
2
Not free after 5 users
2
Can't prompt for per-request variables
1
Support websocket
1
Import curl
1
Import swagger

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What is Gitbook?

It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.

What is Postman?

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

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What companies use Postman?

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What are some alternatives to Gitbook and Postman?

Sphinx

It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

Jekyll

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.

Google Docs

It is a word processor included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. It brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs.

GitHub Pages

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

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