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Hookdeck ConsoleA Hookdeck Console alternative in your pocket.
Hookdeck Console is a free browser inspector next to Hookdeck's webhook gateway, with a CLI that forwards to localhost. Hook is for watching webhooks from your phone: every request pushes, and you read it anywhere.
Hook and Hookdeck Console, side by side.
Hook Free, Pro from $5.99 a month | Hookdeck Console Console free; gateway from $39 a month | |
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| Price | ||
| Price | Free: 10 requests a month. Pro: $1.99/week, $5.99/month or $39.99/year; Lifetime $59.99 (US App Store prices) | Console free; Developer free; Team from $39/month |
| Volume | 10,000 requests a month on Pro | Developer: 10,000 events a month |
| Receiving | ||
| Third-party webhooks | Yes: Any request from any service: point Stripe, GitHub or anything else straight at it | Yes: Any request |
| Read the full request | Yes: Headers, query string and full body, formatted, with the raw request kept | Yes: Headers, query and body, with replay |
| Signed payloads | Yes: JWS/JWT bodies decoded, nested ones too (App Store notifications) | No: Not listed |
| Sender recognition | Yes: Stripe, GitHub, Slack, Shopify, GitLab, Linear, Vercel, Sentry, Discord and the App Store named on arrival | No: Not listed |
| Email in | Yes: A mail.gethook.app address per workspace | No: No |
| Forward to your service | Partly: Proxy to your own URL on Pro | Yes: CLI forwarding to localhost; gateway routing |
| Notifications | ||
| AI-written notifications | Yes: Title and summary written from any payload, in your language; or your own template | No: Not listed |
| Push | Yes: iPhone push, and browser push on Pro | No: No phone push |
| Publish from scripts | Yes: Hook-Title, Hook-Priority, Hook-Tags, Hook-Click, actions, as headers or URL parameters | No: No |
| Priority | Yes: Five levels, from silent (1) to urgent (5) | No: No |
| Platform | ||
| Apps | Partly: iPhone and iPad app, plus a web app; no Android | Partly: Browser and CLI |
| History | 7 days on Free; full history on Pro | Developer: 3 days |
| Self-hosting | No: Hosted only | No: No |
| Open source | No: Closed source | Not stated |
- Supported
- Limited
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Hookdeck Console details are from their public website and docs as of October 2026. Hook prices are US App Store prices.
Why people pick Hook over Hookdeck Console.
Notified, not polling
Every request is a push on your iPhone, with the payload one tap away.
Readable on a phone
JSON and JWS bodies formatted for a small screen, plus a web inbox.
When Hookdeck Console is the better choice.
You need to forward webhooks to localhost while coding.
You need a production gateway with retries, queues and filtering.
Questions about Hook and Hookdeck Console.
Does Hook forward to localhost?
No. Hook's proxy forwards to a public URL. Use “Copy as curl” in the web app to replay a request against your local server.
More in the docs: Get started · Publishing messages
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