Uptime Kuma app alternatives

If you self-host Uptime Kuma there are a handful of mobile apps to choose from, and it is not obvious from the store listings what you actually get. Here is the whole field, compared on the things that are easy to verify and easy to get wrong.

How this was checked. Every figure below comes from the public App Store and Google Play listings for each app, read on 5 August 2026 on the UK storefront. Prices vary by country. We have deliberately left out feature-by-feature claims about other developers' apps, because we cannot verify those from a store listing - only what the listings themselves state.

The whole field, side by side

App	Cost to download	In-app purchases	Platforms	Last updated	Connects to
KumaAlertThis app	£3.99 once	None	iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch	August 2026	Your own server
Uptime Kuma ManagerHALLIHARP TECH LLC	Free	Premium subscription, £0.99/month or £9.99/year	iPhone, iPad, Android	January 2026	Your own server
WumaGianpiero Radano	£4.99	Premium, £9.99	iPhone, iPad	October 2023	Your own server
Kuma : StatusTheo Vankoekelberg	Free	Premium Lifetime, £3.99	iPhone, iPad	July 2026	Public status pages only
Uptime MateChristoph Scherbeck	Free	Pro £1.99, Premium Icon £3.99	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch	April 2026	Your own server

What that table actually tells you

KumaAlert is the only one with no in-app purchases

Every other app in this list has something to buy after you install it - a subscription, a lifetime unlock, or a Pro tier. KumaAlert has none. You pay £3.99 once and every feature is unlocked forever, including future ones. That is the whole pricing model and there is nothing else to read.

"Free" is usually a subscription in disguise

Uptime Kuma Manager is free to download and then £0.99 a month or £9.99 a year for Premium. If you keep it for a year on the annual plan you have spent more than two and a half times what KumaAlert costs, and you start again the year after. That may still be the right trade for you - but it is worth doing the arithmetic before you pick the free one.

Check when an app was last updated

Uptime Kuma is actively developed and its API moves. Wuma was last updated in October 2023, which is nearly three years ago at the time of writing, and it costs £4.99 up front with a further £9.99 Premium purchase. We are not going to tell you it does not work - we have not tested it - but a monitoring app that has not shipped a build in three years is worth a second look before you buy.

Two of these are not really the same kind of app

Kuma : Status reads public status pages only. It never asks for admin credentials, which is genuinely a nice property if that is all you need. Uptime Mate is built around Apple Watch and its own listing says it is deliberately quiet - status at a glance rather than alerts. Neither is trying to do what KumaAlert does, and if what you want is a credential-free status glance, one of them is a better fit than paying us.

So which should you pick?

Pick KumaAlert if…

You want to be woken up when something breaks at 3am, and you want that alert to cut through Silent mode and Focus.
You want one price, once, with nothing else to buy.
You use both iPhone and Android, or you want an Apple Watch app and home-screen widgets.
You would rather your server not be exposed to the internet just to get notifications.

Pick something else if…

You only need to glance at a public status page - Kuma : Status does that for free and never touches your credentials.
You specifically want a quiet Apple Watch dashboard with no alerting - that is what Uptime Mate is for.
You are happy on a subscription and prefer to try before you pay - Uptime Kuma Manager is free to start.
You already have ntfy, Pushover or Apprise wired up, it wakes you reliably, and you do not want an app at all. That is a completely reasonable answer.

One thing worth knowing about alerts

KumaAlert's push alerts do not require your Uptime Kuma server to be reachable from the internet. Uptime Kuma sends an outbound webhook to our relay when a monitor changes state, and the relay forwards it to your device. It never connects back to your server and never stores its address. Only the live dashboard and the widget need your phone to reach the server directly, over your LAN, a VPN, Tailscale, or a public hostname - whichever you already use.

Try it

£3.99 on the App Store, or the local equivalent on your storefront. One payment, no subscription, everything unlocked.

Download for iPhone & iPad Get it on Google Play

iOS 17.2+ · Android 10+ · Uptime Kuma 1.23.0 or later