Your webhooks and everything else you monitor.
WebhookBeam does one job cleanly: catch a webhook from Stripe, Shopify or PayPal and tell you it happened. Pocket Alert covers that job and the ones next to it, because most alerting is not only webhooks. Scripts, cron jobs, CI pipelines and AI agents send to the same account, land in the same feed, and can be made loud or quiet per source.
Where a webhook-only tool leaves you
Good at webhooks. The gap is everything that is not a webhook.
No Android app
The product is iOS, desktop and email. There is no Android app listed, so half a team may be left on email.
Webhook-only intake
Alerts start with an incoming webhook. A cron job or a deploy script has nothing to call directly.
No priority levels
Every notification arrives the same way, with no level that overrides Do Not Disturb when a charge fails at 3am.
No action buttons
You read the alert, then open a laptop to act on it. Nothing to tap on the notification itself.
Pocket Alert vs WebhookBeam, feature by feature
Both catch webhooks. One of them also handles the alerts that never pass through a webhook.
| Feature | Pocket Alert | WebhookBeam |
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it | ||
| iOS app | ||
| Android app | iOS, desktop and e-mail | |
| Web dashboard | Devices, keys, apps, webhooks | Dashboard |
| Chrome extension | Send a link or note to your phone | |
| Command-line tool | Official binary for Linux, macOS, Windows | |
| MCP server for AI agents | 10 tools | |
| Sending alerts | ||
| Send via HTTP API | Webhook intake only | |
| Inbound webhook URL per source | One URL per service | |
| Payload mapping into the message | %field.path% into title, body and buttons | Webhook builder with payload placeholders |
| Scheduled delivery | Up to 30 days, listable and cancellable | |
| Priority levels | Five, silent to critical | Custom sounds only |
| Critical alerts that override Do Not Disturb | On paid plans | |
| Action buttons on the notification | Up to 3: open, HTTP request, copy | |
| Attachments | Images | |
| Grouping by source | Applications, filtered in the app | One webhook per service |
| Email delivery | ||
| SMS or phone-call delivery | ||
| Records and debugging | ||
| Message history | Account-wide, synced to app and web | Event log in the dashboard |
| Webhook call log | Headers, payload, rendered message, result | Request and response inspection |
| History retention | 7 days free, 365 on the top plan | 7 days free, unlimited on Pro |
| Delivery statistics | Per application and per device | Delivery charts and p50/p95 latency |
| Account and data | ||
| Content encryption | At rest with a per-account key, secrets redacted | Not documented |
| Two-factor authentication | TOTP with recovery codes | Not documented |
| Open source or self-hosted | ||
WebhookBeam data from webhookbeam.com and the App Store listing, checked August 2026.
What you’ll pay
| Pocket Alert | WebhookBeam | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 50 messages a day, no card | 50 notifications a month, 7-day history |
| Entry paid plan | $6/month — 1,000 messages a day, 5 webhooks | $5/month — 1,000 notifications a month, 30-day history |
| Highest tier | $25/month — unlimited messages, 365-day history | $15/month — unlimited notifications and unlimited history |
Pocket Alert pricing as of August 2026. WebhookBeam figures from webhookbeam.com/pricing. See full pricing.
Coming from WebhookBeam
Install and sign in
Install the app on iPhone or Android, sign in, and open the dashboard.
Recreate the endpoints
Create a webhook for each service you were watching and paste its URL into Stripe, Shopify or wherever it came from.
Rebuild the templates
Map the payload into the title and body with %field.path%, and add a button that opens the record in question.
Bring the rest in
Point your scripts and monitors at the API with the same key, so everything lands in one feed.
Questions, answered
WebhookBeam watches webhooks: you create a URL, point Stripe or Shopify at it, and get a notification when it fires. Pocket Alert does that too, and also takes direct API calls from your own scripts, cron jobs and CI, so monitoring alerts and payment alerts end up in the same feed rather than two tools.
Pocket Alert has native apps for both iOS and Android. WebhookBeam lists an iOS app, desktop notifications and email; there is no Android app on its site or in the Play Store as of August 2026.
Both extract fields from the incoming payload and drop them into the notification. Pocket Alert uses %field.path% placeholders, and the same placeholders can fill an action button, so a Stripe dispute can arrive with a working link straight to that charge.
WebhookBeam is free for 50 notifications a month with 7 days of history, $5/mo for 1,000 a month, and $15/mo for unlimited notifications and unlimited history. Pocket Alert is free for 50 a day with 7 days of webhook history, $6/mo for 1,000 a day, and $25/mo for unlimited messages with 365 days of history. If you need history kept forever, WebhookBeam Pro does that and Pocket Alert does not.
Webhook alerts, and the rest of your alerts.
Fifty a day instead of fifty a month, on iPhone and on Android.