Zenhook vs bonk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Zenhook
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Your app, live. On your phone. A sale, a new player, a sign-up, an error. One webhook from what you build, and Zenhook puts it on your phone. 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 5 minutes from outside your servers. - 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: βWhat happened this week?β, βAny errors in the last 24 hours?β, βWho signed up?β - 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
bonk
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bonk sends you a push notification when something on the internet needs your attention. You install the app, copy your private URL, and paste it anywhere that can make a web request. When that URL gets hit, your phone buzzes. No sign-up, no dashboard, no accounts to manage. HOW IT WORKS Open bonk. The app gives you a private URL that only you can see. Paste that URL into anything that can send a web request: a script, a build pipeline, a monitoring tool. When it runs, a notification lands on your device. WHO IT'S FOR Developers who want their own devices to know when something happened. A build finished. A server went down. A scheduled task ran. A long-running script needs a human. Anything on the internet that has news for you, for your own eyes. WHAT'S IN THE APP Your feed: every notification you've sent to yourself, newest first URLs: create, rotate, revoke; each is shown once at creation Settings: pair more of your devices, or delete your account ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Pair another iPhone, iPad, or Mac to the same account with a 6-digit code from Settings. Every notification arrives on all of them. PRIVACY No email, no password. Opening the app is the entire setup. No dashboard. Your notifications are the interface. We forward your notifications to Apple and don't store them. LIMITS 300 requests per minute per URL. Plenty for normal use. Email us if you need more.
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Verdict
Zenhook and bonk are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Zenhook | bonk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Solar Beam | Magic Srl |
In-app purchases
Zenhook
No in-app purchases
bonk
No in-app purchases









