Why choose Pigeon over Postman?

API clients got heavy. Sign-in walls, cloud sync, workspaces, updates that want the network again. If that still fits your team, great — keep it.

Pigeon went the other way: a native macOS app that organizes itself so you can send a request and move on. No account. Data on your disk. Free and open source.

What Pigeon optimizes for

• No account, ever — open the app and send. No invite, no workspace setup.
• Local by default — collections, history, environments, and keys stay on your Mac.
• Tabs that name themselves — the path becomes the tab name when you send.
• History filed by domain — calls land under the host, not a flat pile of timestamps.
• cURL and Postman import — paste docs commands or bring a collection with you.
• Keyboard-first — send with ⌘↵, find anything with ⌘K.

Who it’s for

Solo developers and small teams who want a fast local client — not a cloud workspace. If you live in the terminal and an editor already, Pigeon should feel familiar.

Who should stick with a heavier client

If you need built-in cloud sync across many devices, large team workspaces, or a full collaboration suite in the product, a bigger platform may still be the better fit. Pigeon is intentionally smaller.

More comparisons

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Try it in a minute

Install on macOS, paste a curl from the docs, send three requests to different hosts, and watch tabs and history sort themselves. That’s the product pitch — not a feature matrix.

Read more on the blog, or start from the home page demos.