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PushoverA Pushover alternative for webhooks you don't control.
Pushover is a reliable push API: your code sends a token, a user key and a message. Hook is an endpoint other services call directly, so a webhook you don't control still becomes a notification you can read in full.
Hook and Pushover, side by side.
Hook Free, Pro from $5.99 a month | Pushover One-time $4.99 per platform | |
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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) | One-time $4.99 per platform after a 30-day trial; Teams $5 per user a month |
| Volume | 10,000 requests a month on Pro | 10,000 messages a month per user |
| Receiving | ||
| Third-party webhooks | Yes: Any request from any service: point Stripe, GitHub or anything else straight at it | No: Requests need Pushover's token, user and message fields |
| Read the full request | Yes: Headers, query string and full body, formatted, with the raw request kept | No: Shows the message only |
| Signed payloads | Yes: JWS/JWT bodies decoded, nested ones too (App Store notifications) | No: No |
| Sender recognition | Yes: Stripe, GitHub, Slack, Shopify, GitLab, Linear, Vercel, Sentry, Discord and the App Store named on arrival | No: No |
| Email in | Yes: A mail.gethook.app address per workspace | Yes: Email gateway |
| Forward to your service | Partly: Proxy to your own URL on Pro | No: No |
| Notifications | ||
| AI-written notifications | Yes: Title and summary written from any payload, in your language; or your own template | No: No: you write every message |
| Push | Yes: iPhone push, and browser push on Pro | Yes: Own apps on every platform |
| Publish from scripts | Yes: Hook-Title, Hook-Priority, Hook-Tags, Hook-Click, actions, as headers or URL parameters | Yes: Title, message, priority, URL, sound, one attachment |
| Priority | Yes: Five levels, from silent (1) to urgent (5) | Yes: Five levels, with emergency alerts repeated until acknowledged |
| Platform | ||
| Apps | Partly: iPhone and iPad app, plus a web app; no Android | Yes: iPhone, iPad, Android and desktop |
| History | 7 days on Free; full history on Pro | Not stated |
| Self-hosting | No: Hosted only | No: No |
| Open source | No: Closed source | No: No |
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Pushover details are from their public website and docs as of October 2026. Hook prices are US App Store prices.
Why people pick Hook over Pushover.
No glue code
With Pushover you write the code that turns a Stripe event into a message. With Hook you paste the URL into Stripe.
Long payloads stay whole
Pushover messages stop at 1,024 characters. Hook keeps bodies up to 10 MiB and shows them formatted.
A web inbox
Search, filter and read every request at gethook.app/app, live as it arrives.
When Pushover is the better choice.
You only send messages from your own code and want a one-time price.
You need Android or desktop apps.
You rely on emergency alerts that repeat until someone acknowledges them.
Questions about Hook and Pushover.
Can I send Pushover-style messages to Hook?
Yes, with Hook-Title, Hook-Message and Hook-Priority headers or URL parameters; no token or user key, because the endpoint URL is the secret.
Is Hook cheaper?
Not for sending only: Pushover's one-time $4.99 is less than a Hook Pro subscription. Hook is worth it when you also receive webhooks from other services and need to read them.
More in the docs: Get started · Publishing messages
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