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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Knock CLI

Bring your notification infrastructure to your fingertips

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Knock CLI launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Knock▲340

    Notification infrastructure for developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

  2. 2KN

    Hey HN! I’m Chris – one of the co-founders at Knock (https://knock.app). Knock is notifications infrastructure for developers. We provide a set of flexible API primitives you can use to power complex notification systems, without having to roll your own notifications infrastructure in-house. In short: we built notifications so you don’t have to. We learned about scaling notifications systems the hard way. Previously, my co-founder and I worked together at Frame.io, where we saw the upside of product notifications as well as the pain involved in building and maintaining them. With…

    2022 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Build, manage, and ship customer messaging from Slack

    Jun 2026 · knock.app · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    Clix▲230

    Mobile push for modern builders

    Sep 2025 · clix.so · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Trigger event-based messaging from Stripe, Clerk, Supabase

    Apr 2026 · knock.app · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Knock-Knock.net is a live honeypot dashboard showing real-time bot attacks by protocol, source country, ISP, username, password, and IP across SSH, Telnet, FTP, RDP, SMB, SIP, HTTP, and SMTP services.

    Feb 2026 · knock-knock.net · its alternatives →

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    Keep▲108

    Alerting, by developers, for developers

    2023 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Hey HN, I am building an open source platform to make on-call better and less stressful for engineers. We are building a tool that can silence alerts and help with debugging and root cause analysis. We also want to automate tedious parts of being on-call (running runbooks manually, answering questions on Slack, dealing with Pagerduty). Here is a quick video of how it works: https://youtu.be/m_K9Dq1kZDw I hated being on-call for a couple of reasons: * Alert volume: The number of alerts kept increasing over time. It was hard to maintain existing alerts. This would lead to a lot…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Access the top products on PH right from your terminal

    2019 · its alternatives →

  10. 10
    Deposure▲185

    Launch your APIs live effortlessly

    2025 · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Build voice AI agents with one command

    Oct 2025 · toyo.ai · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Power your product notifications with Segment and Hightouch

    2022 · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Minimal circular video calls that start with a "door" knock

    Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14
    Knock▲168

    Knock on your MacBook to control your Mac

    Mar 2026 · tryknock.app · its alternatives →

  15. 15KG

    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Push events and chat with Claude Code via Telegram & Discord

    Mar 2026 · code.claude.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Pingy CLI▲140

    The simple frontend build tool. No config. No plugins

    2017 · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    AI-first platform for multi-channel notifications

    May 2026 · suprsend.com · its alternatives →

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    Mac CLi▲226

    OS X command line tools for developers

    2016 · its alternatives →

  21. 21
    N▲75

    A cli tool that notifies when programs executions complete

    2018 · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Remote development environments right from your terminal

    2017 · its alternatives →

  23. 23
    DEV CLI▲132

    Access dev.to right from your terminal

    2019 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile

    Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →

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