Best alternatives to Hookwise in 2026

When a service like Stripe or GitHub needs to notify your app that something happened — a payment succeeded, code was pushed — it sends a webhook: an HTTP request to a URL you control. The problem is testing that on your own laptop, since your laptop usually isn't reachable from the internet. Hookwise solves that specific problem: it gives you a public URL that catches those webhooks and forwards them to your local machine so you can see and debug them. Hookwise is a developer tool for webhook inspection and localhost tunneling. It creates instant public webhook URLs, captures incoming requests from services like Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify, and lets you inspect headers and payloads in real time through a searchable interface. A CLI component tunnels those requests down to your local development environment, and you can replay any past request to re-test a fix without waiting for the real event to fire again — plus delivery metrics showing success rates and latency. It has a free tier with no credit card required, and no other pricing tiers are published on its site yet.