Postman vs Read the Docs: What are the differences?

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.

What is Read the Docs? Create, host, and browse documentation. Read the Docs hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar. We support webhooks so your docs get built when you commit code. There's also support for versioning so you can build docs from tags and branches of your code in your repository.

Postman and Read the Docs are primarily classified as "API" and "Documentation as a Service &" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Postman are:

• Compact layout
• HTTP requests with file upload support
• Formatted API responses for JSON and XML

On the other hand, Read the Docs provides the following key features:

• Github and Bitbucket Integration
• Auto-updating
• Internationalization

"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider Postman over the competitors, whereas "GitHub integration" was stated as the key factor in picking Read the Docs.

Read the Docs is an open source tool with 5.25K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Read the Docs's open source repository on GitHub.

Typeform, Bukalapak, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Postman, whereas Read the Docs is used by Hilenium, StratEx, and Scrapinghub. Postman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1754 company stacks & 2236 developers stacks; compared to Read the Docs, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.