Comparison

Beszel vs bonk

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

Head to head
About

Beszel

Monitor your self-hosted infrastructure directly from your phone. Check server status, resource usage, containers, and alerts with a simple, readable interface. Offers local notifications and home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Monitor server status (up, paused, offline)
  • Track CPU, RAM, disk usage, and uptime
  • Inspect containers and resource usage
  • View charts and usage trends
  • Receive local alert notifications
  • Add home screen widgets
  • Demo mode available
Features
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Beszel : Dashboard is a mobile client designed to help you monitor your Beszel infrastructure from your phone. Connect directly to your own Beszel instance and quickly check server status, CPU and memory usage, disk metrics, containers, and important alerts. The app is built for self-hosting users, homelab setups, sysadmins, and devops teams who want a simple and readable mobile monitoring experience. With Beszel : Dashboard, you can: - view the overall health of your infrastructure; - check which servers are up, paused, or offline; - monitor CPU, RAM, disk usage, and uptime; - explore charts and usage trends over time; - open detailed views for each server; - inspect containers and their resource usage; - review additional mounted filesystems; - receive local notifications for important alerts; - try the app in demo mode; - remove ads with a one-time lifetime purchase. - add widgets on your homescreen Privacy matters: - the app does not depend on a central publisher backend; - it only connects to the Beszel instance you provide; - monitoring data comes from your own server; - some technical session data may be stored locally on your device; - Google AdMob and store billing services may be used for monetization. Beszel : Dashboard is ideal when you want quick mobile access to your infrastructure without opening your full monitoring interface every time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://valemko.app/pages/policy-beszeldashboard

About

bonk

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Beszel4 screens
bonk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: bonk at none against Beszel's 2. bonk also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. Beszel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. bonk asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Beszel versus bonk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeszelbonk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB25 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperTheo VankoekelbergMagic Srl

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Beszel

Subscriptions1
  • Annuel$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$8.99
None

bonk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beszel free?
Beszel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is bonk free?
bonk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beszel or bonk have ads?
Beszel shows ads; bonk does not.

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