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by eknkc 3381 days ago
I paid for Paw and can't stand using it. One of few macOS apps that I gave up after purchasing.

Things like entering JSON body requires using a gui resembling the plist editor or going for raw text input. But then you need to add a content type header manually. And there is no syntax highlighting or anything like that when you do it that way. Postman handles this better.

Or that the left menu has a manually managed request list. I'm not sure if there is a history listing all changed requests I made in order. Maybe there is because I see a History menubar item that can clear history. How can I see the request I made just before this one? No idea. Postman is also better on this. Left list shows all requests.

I guess the workflow is not firing it up and trying out some things but constructing a project with environments, requests etc.. Never bothered to do that in detail (see next item). Want to have a decent UI to contruct HTTP requests and execute them..

Even if I tried to use the project stuff, having that project file on a git repo is cumbersome because it's a binary file and Paw touches it even if you just open it up so Git shows a diff.

It used to require a protocol (http://) before the url. I think it does not anymore. Why would an http client not default to http protocol?

Guess it's not for my type of usage. I mostly go with httpie these days.