Alternatives to WebHook Tester
A self-hosted tool for testing and debugging webhooks and HTTP requests on randomly generated URLs. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
WebHook Tester
A self-hosted tool for testing and debugging webhooks and HTTP requests on randomly generated URLs.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as WebHook Tester.
Webhook.site
A web service that gives you a unique URL and email address to inspect incoming requests.
Webhook.site is a hosted freemium service that also captures emails and DNS lookups and offers workflows, but payloads leave your own infrastructure.
Request Catcher
A web tool that gives you a subdomain and shows every HTTP request sent to it live.
Request Catcher needs no hosting and shows requests live on a chosen subdomain, but traffic passes through a public third-party service.
Hookdeck Console
A free web tool for receiving, inspecting, replaying and saving webhook and HTTP request events.
Hookdeck Console is a free hosted tool that adds replay and saving of events, with payloads passing through a third party instead of your server.
Beeceptor
A web service for creating mock API servers and inspecting incoming webhook requests in real time.
Beeceptor is hosted and adds mock API servers with dynamic responses, but requests go through a third party and advanced features are paid.
TypedWebhook.tools
A webhook testing tool that logs requests and generates TypeScript types and schemas from payloads.
TypedWebHook.tools is hosted and generates TypeScript types and schemas from payloads, but you give up keeping requests on your own infrastructure.
Mockbin
A free web tool that creates mock API endpoints with fixed responses and logs requests to them.
Mockbin is an open-source hosted tool that pairs request inspection with mock endpoints, with no self-hosting of the captured traffic.
Also worth comparing
These listings name WebHook Tester as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
PutsReq
A web tool that records incoming HTTP requests and returns fake responses you define in JavaScript.
WebHook Tester runs on your own server so payloads stay in-house, with customisable response codes, but captured requests are held only in memory.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
smee.io
A free webhook payload delivery service that forwards events to an application running on localhost.
ngrok
A tunnelling agent and gateway that exposes a local app to the internet with request inspection.
Hookdeck
A hosted webhook gateway that receives, queues, filters and routes webhooks and external events.
Convoy
A self-hostable webhook gateway for sending and receiving webhooks with retries, signatures and rate limiting.
webhook
A lightweight server that runs shell commands when incoming HTTP webhooks match configured hooks.
Tunnelmole
An open-source tunneling tool that gives a server running on localhost a public HTTPS URL.
