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Healthchecks.io alternative with iPhone alerts

Healthchecks.io is the specialist: more jobs on its free plan, logs per job and a self-hosted option. It needs a second service to make your phone ring. Acciti puts the heartbeat and the alert that wakes you in one product, along with escalation when you sleep through it.

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At a glanceAccitiHealthchecks.io
  • Repeats until acknowledged
  • On-call rotations and escalation
  • Cron and heartbeat monitoring
  • Incoming webhooks from other services
  • Self-hosting

Acciti and Healthchecks.io, side by side

QuestionAccitiHealthchecks.io
PriceFree: $0 for one person. Solo: $5 a month for one person. Team: $15 a month for everyone on the team.Free for 20 jobs. Business is $20 a month for 100 jobs, Business Plus $80 a month for 1,000.source
Where alerts arriveNative apps for iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac, and web push in a browser. No Android app.No mobile app of its own. Alerts go out by email, chat, SMS, phone call or a push service such as Pushover.source
Repeats until acknowledgedOn every plan. An emergency repeats until someone acknowledges it on any of their devices.Only through the notifier it hands the alert to, such as Pushover's emergency priority.source
On-call rotations and escalationRotations, escalation policies and maintenance windows on Team ($15 a month).No rotations documented.source
Cron and heartbeat monitoringOn Solo ($5 a month). A missed check-in raises one alert.Yes, its core feature, with grace periods and a log of pings per job.source
Incoming webhooks from other servicesSigned webhooks from App Store, Stripe, GitHub, Provisore, Sentry, Grafana, Better Stack, verified and turned into alerts, on Solo ($5 a month).Sends alerts out to webhooks, with your own headers and body. It does not take webhooks in from other services.source
Self-hostingHosted only, on servers in Germany.Yes, under the BSD 3-clause licence.source
  • Yes
  • Partly
  • No
  • Unconfirmed

Healthchecks.io details as their own pages stated them on 21 October 2026. Each links to its source.

Choose Healthchecks.io if

  • You monitor dozens or hundreds of jobs.
  • You want to self-host the monitor.
  • You want a log of every ping for each job.

Choose Acciti if

  • You want a missed backup to ring your iPhone, not land in an inbox.
  • You want the alert to repeat until acknowledged and then reach whoever is on call.
  • You want the same app to carry alerts from your scripts, Stripe and Sentry.

Moving from Healthchecks.io

  1. 1Create a heartbeat in Acciti for each check, with the same interval and grace period.
  2. 2Replace the hc-ping.com URL at the end of each job with the Acciti ping URL.
  3. 3Give the heartbeats that matter most an escalation policy.

The API documentation has every request in curl, Python, JavaScript, Swift and Go.

Before, with Healthchecks.ioHealthchecks.io docs

Healthchecks.io
0 3 * * *  backup.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 https://hc-ping.com/$CHECK_UUID

After, with Acciti

Acciti
0 3 * * *  backup.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 https://acciti.com/v1/heartbeats/$HEARTBEAT_TOKEN/ping

Questions

Can Healthchecks.io send a push notification to my iPhone?
Not by itself. Healthchecks.io has no mobile app and hands alerts to a notifier such as Pushover, SMS or a phone call.
Can I use Healthchecks.io and Acciti together?
Yes. A Healthchecks.io webhook integration can send its own headers and body, so it can POST to Acciti's messages API with a sender token, and a check going down rings your phone.

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