Comparison

cURLFactory vs Port22

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

Head to head
About

cURLFactory

Features
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CurlFactory turns the URLs you fire all day into a grid of one-tap buttons. Pick an icon, paste an endpoint, and tap to send. No accounts, no servers, no friction. Built for makers, devs, and tinkerers who already have webhook URLs scattered across notes, group chats, and bookmark folders. CurlFactory gives them a home - your home screen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Save any HTTP or HTTPS endpoint as a labeled, color-coded tile • Choose from 100+ icons covering home, work, travel, tools, money, media, and more • Tap a tile to fire the request and get an instant toast with the status code and timing • Inspect the response: tap a successful toast to see status, headers, and the first 4 KB of body • Hide sensitive curls behind Face ID - tokens stay invisible to over-the-shoulder eyes • Reorder, duplicate, or delete with a long-press • Skip onboarding, jump straight to building PERFECT FOR • Triggering Home Assistant, Hubitat, or Homebridge automations • Firing IFTTT or Zapier webhooks from your home screen • Pinging your own dev environments and APIs • Smart-home appliances that expose a local URL • Anything you'd otherwise paste into curl in a terminal ON-DEVICE PRIVACY CurlFactory was designed with privacy as the default. There is no account, no analytics, no telemetry. Every URL, title, and icon stays in your iPhone's app sandbox. Optional Face ID gating adds a second layer for sensitive endpoints. The app does not collect data - see our privacy policy for details. FREE & UNLIMITED • 5 saved curls free, forever - no trial, no clock • Unlock unlimited curls with a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription. Lifetime access. Family Sharing supported. • Restore Purchases works on a tap from anywhere DESIGNED FOR THE HOME SCREEN • Universal binary: works on iPhone and iPad • Light and dark mode • Dynamic Type and full VoiceOver labels • Haptics that feel right when a curl lands WHY CURL? The Unix curl command has been the universal "send a request" tool for thirty years. CurlFactory borrows the verb and gives it a home screen. MADE BY PIZERO CurlFactory is built by Pizero. Feedback, feature requests, and bug reports welcome.

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

cURLFactory4 screens
Port224 screens

Verdict

The call

cURLFactory and Port22 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. cURLFactory sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Port22 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
cURLFactory versus Port22: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametercURLFactoryPort22
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB12 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPizeroHarsha Chaganti

In-app purchases

1 purchases

cURLFactory

One-time1
  • Unlimited$3.99
1 purchases

Port22

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited$19.991 Year

Questions

Is cURLFactory free?
cURLFactory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Port22 free?
Port22 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do cURLFactory or Port22 have ads?
Neither cURLFactory nor Port22 shows ads.

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