HookNotifier vs minical

Getting a notification when something happens should not require building an app, a Firebase project, and a backend. Hook.Notifier is the last mile: you get a personal URL, you call it from anything that can make an HTTP request, and a real native notification lands on your iPhone. One HTTP request. A notification on your phone. That is the whole thing, and it is free. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT Send yourself a push from a shell script, a cron job, a webhook (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Supabase), a Zapier or Make automation, a monitoring tool like Uptime Kuma or Grafana, or a few lines of code in any language. If it can make an HTTP request, it can notify you. • Get pinged when a payment fails, a build breaks, a server goes down, a form is submitted, or a new order comes in. • Know the moment a cron job finishes, a backup completes, or a container stops. • Turn any webhook into a phone notification without a middleman. BUILT FOR REAL USE • Priorities: low, normal, high, critical. Critical is delivered as time-sensitive so real incidents still reach you. • Quiet hours: silence normal notifications on your schedule, let the urgent ones through. • Tags: colored folders to route and filter your notifications, with per-tag mute. • A real inbox: your notifications are kept, searchable, and organized, not just fired and forgotten. • Scheduled delivery: send now, or in 10 minutes, or at an exact time, up to three days ahead. • Updates in place: a long job can be one notification that goes from "running" to "done" instead of a pile of pings. • Markdown, images, and up to three action buttons on a notification. • Named hooks: a dedicated, revocable URL per source, each with its own defaults, so you can cut one off without touching the others. • Team sharing: notify everyone on your team at once. • Multi-device: receive on every device you sign in on. NO INFRASTRUCTURE No Firebase project. No Apple push certificates. No backend to store device tokens. No app to build. Hook.Notifier handles the plumbing so you just send a request and get notified. FREE Hook.Notifier is free. No subscription, no per-notification quota. Send as much as you actually need. WHO IT IS FOR Developers, makers, indie hackers, sysadmins, no-coders, and anyone tired of rigging up Discord or Telegram bots just to get a ping on their phone. Get your URL, call it from anything, get notified. That is Hook.Notifier.

Every event at a glance — that's all minical does. linked calendar, iCloud / iOS system calendars, and minical's own events — wherever they're created, they all land on one screen, color-coded. What's on today, how the rest of the month flows, all visible without scrolling. ■ At a glance • Today screen — next-event countdown, ongoing, what's left, what's done • Month view — the entire month in one grid, color patterns visible at a glance • Widgets — today + tomorrow without leaving the home/lock screen • Shortcuts — your lock screen wallpaper becomes today's schedule • Apple Watch — at a glance from your wrist ■ Core • iOS 26 native Tab Bar — Today / Calendar / Agenda / Search / Settings • Month · Week · Day views — Month uses vertical paging with magnetic snap. Tap the year/month title to jump anywhere • Two-way linked calendar sync — add / edit / delete writes back to linked calendar immediately. Multi-account • Recurring events — daily / weekly / monthly / yearly with end conditions. Editing a series instance asks: this event only or the whole series • Natural-language quick add — "tomorrow 3 PM meeting 1 hour" • linked calendar's 11-color palette + brightness tones — long-press for shade variants • Read-only iOS system calendars (iCloud / Exchange) blended in • Multi-alarm (10 presets, stack as many as you want) ■ Full widget lineup Home screen • Up Next (Small / Medium) — bold when one event, compact rows when many. Long-press to filter calendars • Today List (Medium / Large) — today first; tomorrow only when today has room to spare • Month grid (Large) Lock screen • Inline (one line above the clock — timed events first) • Inline Long (multiple events compressed) • Rectangular (single event large, multi-event compact) • Circular (today's count) Apple Watch • Native Watch app — quick view + quick add • Four complications (Inline / Rectangular / Circular / Corner) ■ Auto-refreshing wallpaper via Shortcuts • "Generate Today Wallpaper" Shortcut — chain it with the system "Set Wallpaper" action and a daily 7 AM automation, and your lock screen refreshes itself with today's plan • "Save Today Wallpaper to Photos" — single-action variant • Three styles: Gradient / Minimal / Dark ■ Promises • No ads. No account required (linked calendar sync is optional). No tracking. No IAP. • All data stays on-device. calendar account tokens live only in Keychain. No analytics or ad SDKs. Scattered events on one screen — today at a glance.