https://www.openshift.com/blog/crictl-vs-podmanPodman is intended to be used without requiring a daemon. Podman unlike Crictl does not require a running CRI-O daemon. If CRI-O for some reason is not responding, Podman can still examine the state of containers and images on your system.
Note: Currently Podman and CRI-O do NOT share the same library for identifying containers, yet. This means, Podman cannot list containers created by CRI-O and CRI-O/Crictl does not know about containers created by Podman.