Goodbye Postman Chrome app
If you’re still using the Postman Chrome app, you may have noticed a new banner at the top:
Chrome apps are being deprecated. Download our free native apps for continued support and better performance.
It’s true. After Google announced their plans to end support for Chrome apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux users, Postman introduced native apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux users and encouraged users to begin the migration.
Postman engineers have worked hard to build feature parity in the native apps in anticipation of this deprecation. So now the Postman native apps cover all the features and functionality of the Chrome app and Chrome extension together, and in many cases the native apps are even better than the original Chrome app.
If you’re using the Postman Interceptor Chrome extension, you will soon be able to use it with the native apps. In the meantime, the native apps already have a proxy to capture HTTP requests and a cookie editor to manage cookies.
Going forward, new features and enhancements will be introduced exclusively in the native apps, and support for the Postman Chrome app will be deprecated. We know much of the Postman community currently still uses our Chrome app, and will be affected by this change. Luckily, the solution is simple.
Initiate migration sequence
Don’t wait for your experience in the Chrome app to get compromised. It’s time to move over now.
The process is simple, and will take less than 60 seconds. Sign in to your Postman account after you download and start the new native app, and all your history and collections will be automatically synced. For people who are not signed in to their Postman account or who do not have sync enabled, you can bulk export your Postman data from the Chrome app, and then bulk import into the new native app.
Goodbye Postman Chrome app
Goodbye, Postman Chrome app, and thank you for your service.
While Postman started out as a Postman Chrome app used along with the Postman Interceptor Chrome extension, the API ecosystem has evolved. The Postman native apps have the same capabilities, and in fact, now surpass the Chrome app in performance. It’s easier than ever to make the switch, and it’ll take a just a hot minute.
Hi Dimitris,
We are currently in the process of adding more support around proxies to our native apps. The update will be similar to our interceptor add-on but will be built directly into our native versions. We expect to release it in the first half of 2018.
Hi Tom,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
Hi Nikolay,
Thanks for the kind words! It’s folks like you that make Postman possible!
Hi James,
Yes, that’s true! We are currently in the process of adding more support around proxies to our native apps. The update will be similar to our interceptor add-on but will be built directly into our native versions. We expect to release it in the first half of 2018.
Hi Gabriel,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
Hi Ewald,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
Hi Tom,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
Hi Alex,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
This is a pretty saddening decision. There has been massive growth in the Chromebook world, especially for development. It’s a very rapidly growing segment, not like it is in decline or anything.
Seems like an odd decision to make this this in mind. Hopefully your team reconsiders in the future.
yes agreed. the users for chromebook is growing
am a mac years for 10 years
made the change to chromebook to give it a try
and it is now my main machine
As a dev, postman is a big part of my workflow
100% – I’m also switching clients over to Chromebooks from MacBooks and Windows laptops. I just don’t understand the decision here by Postman. Chrome OS is starting to take over the enterprise space, this feels like a terrible time to EOL the Chrome app.
Crostini for Chromebook should allow you to run the native Linux app
Hi Mark,
Thanks for reaching out! We currently ask that feature requests be sent in as a “new issue” to our GitHub(https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues). Would you be able to do so? It’s how our developer team keeps track of what is most important to our users.
Hi Demoive,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it.
Hi Jim,
Our Chrome app will still be available to use on ChromeOS, we just won’t be pushing any new updates/features to it
Doesn’t look like it’s available any more?
Hi Eric
Thanks for reaching out! We currently ask that feature requests be sent in as a “new issue” to our GitHub(https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues). Would you be able to do so? It’s how our developer team keeps track of what is most important to our users.
Hi,
The link your refer returns 404 !
if you analyze the link you’ll see that it ends with a “)” that this forums text editor probably messed up. Just remove that last charachter from the URL and it will work.
I’m used to using Interceptor to capture my WebAPI calls inside my website so I can modify them and do some testing (so I don’t have to mess around with authorization cookies). But it doesn’t seem to send to the native app. Also the native app has this “Capture” feature but I flip it on and it captures nothing at all. Am I doing something wrong?
hi everybody, i have a problem a call to rest api made by chrome extention work, the same made by application recive an error “The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.” what is the problem? p.s. sorry for my english
very reliable extension for rest api.
nice
Anyone know any alternatives to postman interceptor?
I was using postman chrome web app .Now its not opening
how can I get my history back?
I used it without sign in
Hi, Please contact our support team at https://www.postman.com/support and they’ll be glad to help you.