Comparison

Zenhook vs PushBird

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

Head to head
About

Zenhook

Features
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Your app, live. On your phone. A sale, a new player, a sign-up, an error, a site that goes down. Zenhook puts what happens in what you build on your phone, as it happens. 1,000 events a month, free. No SDK. INBOX - Every event of your workspace, newest first, one line each. Tap a line to read its message, fields and link. - While you were away: the top line adds up what came in, with the unread count, the money received and the errors. - Errors and warnings are marked. A deploy shows its steps and the one that failed. - Mark all as read in one tap. Long press an event to ask the Assistant about it. MONITORS - Add a URL and Zenhook checks it every minute from outside your servers (every 30 seconds on Pro). - Each site shows its response time now, its latency over the last 24 hours and 24 bars, one per hour, with its uptime over 24 hours. - When a site goes down, you get an alert, and its tile turns red and says for how long. You get another alert when it is back up. - A failure counts only when a second check confirms it, so one network blip does not wake you up. - For a service on a private network (VPN, LAN, localhost), a command you run inside the network reports each check. ASSISTANT - Ask about your events in plain words: “What happened this week?”, “Any errors in the last 24 hours?”, “Who signed up?” - It answers from your workspace's events. Your conversations are kept, grouped by day, with search. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a channel: sign-ups, payments, errors, deploys. 2. Copy its webhook URL. 3. POST JSON to it from your code, your CI, a cron job or a no-code tool. 4. Your phone pings. That's it. An event can carry a title, a message, a level (info, success, warning, error), an emoji, fields, a link and the person it is about. If it can send an HTTP request, it works with Zenhook. NOTIFICATIONS - Push on your phone and, if you want it, email, set per workspace and per channel. - When the same event keeps coming, you get the first few, then at most one notification an hour with each event and its count. The Inbox still shows everything. FREE TO START Free: 1,000 events a month, 3 channels, 3 monitors and 50 questions to the Assistant. Pro raises the limits to 50,000 events a month, unlimited channels, 20 monitors and 5 members. In English, French and Portuguese. Docs: https://zenhook.dev/docs Privacy: https://zenhook.dev/en/privacy

About

PushBird

Send push notifications to your iPhone or iPad instantly with a single HTTP request. Configure title, subtitle, message, and even an image or link. No account or sign-up required, making it ideal for developers needing quick alerts.

Highlights
  • Send push notifications via HTTP request
  • Unique webhook URL for each user
  • Supports JSON and plain text payloads
  • Customizable title, subtitle, message, image, and link
  • No account or sign-up needed
  • Messages not stored on servers
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Send push notifications to your iPhone with a single HTTP request. PushBird gives you a unique webhook URL. Hit it from curl, a CI pipeline, a cron job, a Python script - anything that can make an HTTP request. Your phone gets a push notification instantly. How it works: - Install the app and get your webhook URL - Send a POST or GET request to that URL - Your device receives a push notification Supports JSON and plain text payloads. You can set title, subtitle, message, image, and link that opens on tap. No account needed. No email. No sign up. Just install and go. Your messages are not stored on our servers. The webhook secret lives only on your device. You can rotate it anytime. Built for developers who want alerts without the overhead of Slack, email, or heavy monitoring dashboards.

Screenshots

Zenhook4 screens
PushBird4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Zenhook at every 4 days against PushBird's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zenhook ships an update every 4 days, PushBird every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Zenhook versus PushBird: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZenhookPushBird
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSolar BeamAnatolii Sukhonosov

In-app purchases

None

Zenhook

No in-app purchases

None

PushBird

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zenhook free?
Zenhook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PushBird free?
PushBird is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zenhook or PushBird have ads?
Neither Zenhook nor PushBird shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zenhook or PushBird?
Zenhook ships an update every 4 days, and PushBird every 2 months. Most recently, Zenhook was updated on October 28, 2026 and PushBird on October 28, 2026.

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