# Pocket Alert vs WebhookBeam > WebhookBeam alternative with iOS and Android apps, a direct send API alongside inbound webhooks, five priority levels, action buttons and scheduled delivery. Free tier included. 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. ### Where you use it - **iOS app** — Pocket Alert: Yes; WebhookBeam: Yes - **Android app** — Pocket Alert: Yes; WebhookBeam: No (iOS, desktop and e-mail) - **Web dashboard** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Devices, keys, apps, webhooks); WebhookBeam: Yes (Dashboard) - **Chrome extension** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Send a link or note to your phone); WebhookBeam: No - **Command-line tool** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Official binary for Linux, macOS, Windows); WebhookBeam: No - **MCP server for AI agents** — Pocket Alert: Yes (10 tools); WebhookBeam: No ### Sending alerts - **Send via HTTP API** — Pocket Alert: Yes; WebhookBeam: No (Webhook intake only) - **Inbound webhook URL per source** — Pocket Alert: Yes (One URL per service); WebhookBeam: Yes - **Payload mapping into the message** — Pocket Alert: Yes (%field.path% into title, body and buttons); WebhookBeam: Yes (Webhook builder with payload placeholders) - **Scheduled delivery** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Up to 30 days, listable and cancellable); WebhookBeam: No - **Priority levels** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Five, silent to critical); WebhookBeam: No (Custom sounds only) - **Critical alerts that override Do Not Disturb** — Pocket Alert: Yes (On paid plans); WebhookBeam: No - **Action buttons on the notification** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Up to 3: open, HTTP request, copy); WebhookBeam: No - **Attachments** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Images); WebhookBeam: No - **Grouping by source** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Applications, filtered in the app); WebhookBeam: Yes (One webhook per service) - **Email delivery** — Pocket Alert: No; WebhookBeam: Yes - **SMS or phone-call delivery** — Pocket Alert: No; WebhookBeam: No ### Records and debugging - **Message history** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Account-wide, synced to app and web); WebhookBeam: Yes (Event log in the dashboard) - **Webhook call log** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Headers, payload, rendered message, result); WebhookBeam: Yes (Request and response inspection) - **History retention** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Messages until you delete them; webhook calls 7–365 days by plan); WebhookBeam: Yes (7 days free, unlimited on Pro) - **Delivery statistics** — Pocket Alert: Yes (Per application and per device); WebhookBeam: Yes (Delivery charts and p50/p95 latency) ### Account and data - **Content encryption** — Pocket Alert: Yes (At rest with a per-account key, secrets redacted); WebhookBeam: Partly (Not documented) - **Two-factor authentication** — Pocket Alert: Yes (TOTP with recovery codes); WebhookBeam: Partly (Not documented) - **Open source or self-hosted** — Pocket Alert: No; WebhookBeam: No WebhookBeam data from webhookbeam.com and the App Store listing, checked August 2026. ## Pricing - **Free plan** — Pocket Alert: 50 messages a day, no card; WebhookBeam: 50 notifications a month, 7-day history - **Entry paid plan** — Pocket Alert: $6/month — 1,000 messages a day, 5 webhooks; WebhookBeam: $5/month — 1,000 notifications a month, 30-day history - **Highest tier** — Pocket Alert: $25/month — unlimited messages, 365-day history; WebhookBeam: $15/month — unlimited notifications and unlimited history Pocket Alert pricing as of August 2026. WebhookBeam figures from webhookbeam.com/pricing. ## Coming from WebhookBeam 1. **Install and sign in** — Install the app on iPhone or Android, sign in, and open the dashboard. 2. **Recreate the endpoints** — Create a webhook for each service you were watching and paste its URL into Stripe, Shopify or wherever it came from. 3. **Rebuild the templates** — Map the payload into the title and body with %field.path%, and add a button that opens the record in question. 4. **Bring the rest in** — Point your scripts and monitors at the API with the same key, so everything lands in one feed. ## FAQ ### How is Pocket Alert different from WebhookBeam? 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. ### Is there an Android app? 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. ### Can I build the message from the payload? 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. ### How does the pricing compare? 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.