Comparison

Spike.sh vs Port22

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Spike.sh

Features
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Spike's mobile app is built to help engineering and ops teams stay on top of critical incidents and manage on-call schedules with ease. With Spike, you can ensure timely responses, streamline incident resolution, and keep service reliability high. Key Features: - Critical Alerts for Incidents Receive critical notifications that break through Focus Mode or silent settings, ensuring you never miss an urgent alert. - On-Call Management Manage your on-call schedule right from your pocket. Check who is on-call now and who will be on-call next. - On-Call Shift Notifications Get notified when your on-call shift starts and ends. Know if you're on-call and be prepared to respond. - Track Open Incidents Easily view all open incidents in your organization, including those assigned to you. - Acknowledge and Resolve Incidents Respond quickly by acknowledging or resolving incidents right from your phone. - Quick Access to Important Links Find and open important links associated with incidents instantly, helping you resolve issues faster. - View Incident Details Get comprehensive information about each incident, including the current status, priority, and severity. - Set Priority and Severity Assign the correct priority or severity to incidents to streamline your team's response. - Customizable Office Hours Configure alert routing and manage notifications based on office hours. Ensure alerts are routed differently during office and non-office hours for better incident handling. With Spike, staying on top of incidents and on-call is easy. Manage critical alerts, on-call duties, and incidents from anywhere, so you can ensure smooth operations and reliable service. Spike is trusted by engineering teams across 30+ countries including WoltersKluwer, WebPros, Awesome Motive, ScreenCloud, Neat, Sofistik, Infracloud, and many more.

About

Port22

Control your AI coding agents from your phone. This app connects to agents running on your Mac, allowing you to monitor sessions, respond to permission prompts with a tap, and view full conversation transcripts. It works both on your local network and remotely, with end-to-end encryption for security.

Highlights
  • Remote session monitoring
  • One-tap permission approvals
  • Full transcript viewing
  • Cross-network connectivity
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Mac agent integration
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Your AI coding agents are already running on your Mac. Port22 doesn't launch, wrap, or replace them — it attaches to what's there and puts every session on your phone, including a permission prompt you can answer in a tap. Start Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in whatever terminal you like. Nothing about your setup changes. Port22 just gives you the whole fleet from anywhere. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the free Port22 agent on your Mac — it's a menu-bar app, no configuration. 2. Pair your phone by typing a six-character code. No account, no sign-up. 3. Your sessions appear. Start them however you already do. MISSION CONTROL FOR YOUR FLEET See every session at a glance: which agent is working, which one is blocked on you, which one is done. No log tailing, no raw error strings — just states a human can read. WHEN AN AGENT IS BLOCKED Your phone tells you the moment an agent needs permission. Open Port22 and every option the agent actually offered is there as a real button — never a guessed keystroke, never an inferred choice. Answer it and the agent carries on. THE REAL CONVERSATION Read the full transcript exactly as it happened — prose, tool calls, diffs. Send a new prompt. Answer a multiple-choice question with real buttons instead of guessed keystrokes. Nothing is truncated. WORKS OFF YOUR NETWORK On your network it connects directly over your LAN. Off it, it fails over automatically to an encrypted relay, and you keep working from anywhere. Taurine, our keep-awake mode, stops your Mac napping mid-run so a long job survives the walk to the coffee shop. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED Your Mac and your iPhone verify each other's identity when they connect, then talk over an AES-256-GCM encrypted channel that the relay in between cannot read. There is no account and no sign-up — pairing is a code you type once. FREE FOREVER One Mac and two sessions, with every feature unlocked. Not a trial and not a crippled tier: off-network access, permission approvals, Taurine, and the full conversation are all included. The two sessions you're using stay free. PORT22 UNLIMITED Unlimited Macs and unlimited sessions, so you can drive the whole fleet at once. An annual subscription that renews automatically until cancelled. Pricing is shown in the app. REQUIRES THE MAC AGENT Port22 needs the free Port22 companion app running on your Mac. Download it at tryport22.com. Terms: tryport22.com/terms Privacy: tryport22.com/privacy

Screenshots

Spike.sh4 screens
Port224 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spike.sh at none against Port22's 1. Port22's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Port22 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Spike.sh asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spike.sh ships an update every 5 weeks, Port22 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Spike.sh versus Port22: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpike.shPort22
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB12 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperFatSync Software pvt ltdHarsha Chaganti

In-app purchases

None

Spike.sh

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Port22

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Spike.sh free?
Spike.sh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Port22 free?
Port22 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spike.sh or Port22 have ads?
Neither Spike.sh nor Port22 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spike.sh or Port22?
Spike.sh ships an update every 5 weeks, and Port22 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Spike.sh was updated on October 10, 2026 and Port22 on October 13, 2026.

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