Crontap

What is Crontap?

Crontap is a managed cron-job scheduler and monitor for HTTP endpoints. Instead of running a worker dyno, wiring up Cloud Scheduler IAM, or relying on visitor-triggered wp-cron, you paste a URL, pick a cadence, and Crontap fires the call on a real clock. It works with any service that answers HTTP — your own APIs, WordPress, Shopify's Admin API, Cloud Run, Vercel and Netlify functions, Railway, Fly.io, AWS Lambda Function URLs, and webhooks for Zapier, Make, n8n or IFTTT. Every run is logged, retried on failure, and can page you on Slack, Discord, Telegram or email. Built by the Apihustle team in Copenhagen, it's positioned as a friendlier, sub-hour alternative to Vercel Cron, Cloud Scheduler and Heroku Scheduler.

Key Features

• Schedule any HTTP endpoint: Trigger GET, POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE requests to any URL on a recurring schedule — no servers to manage.
• Plain English or full cron: Write "every weekday at 09:30" or a classic 5/6-field cron expression, and see the next runs as you type.
• Minute-level cadence: Run jobs as often as every minute, beating Vercel Cron Hobby's hourly minimum and matching Cloud Scheduler's floor.
• Per-schedule timezones: Each job runs in its own IANA timezone, so you can fire reports at 5am Europe/London and 9am America/New_York from one account.
• Failure alerts & retries: Calls are retried with backoff, and failures page Slack, Discord, Telegram, email or any custom webhook.
• Run-now testing: Trigger a job on demand to see the status code, response body and duration before you trust the schedule.
• Run history & logs: Every invocation is stored with status, duration and response body for debugging and audit trails.
• Built-in uptime monitoring: Uptime checks live next to your scheduled jobs, with 1-minute checks on Pro and email alerts on the up→down transition.

Who Can Benefit from Crontap

• Backend developers: Anyone who needs recurring API calls, payment retries, token refreshes or batch jobs without standing up a scheduler.
• WordPress site owners: Teams whose wp-cron silently skips tasks on low-traffic sites and want digests and WooCommerce jobs to fire on time.
• Shopify & e-commerce operators: Stores polling the Admin API every few minutes per shop, in each store's own timezone.
• Indie hackers & SaaS builders: Makers who want a flat-priced clock for AI pipelines, social-post queues and reports instead of per-task billing.
• DevOps & platform teams: Engineers on Cloud Run, Railway, Vercel, Heroku or Fly.io who want one dashboard instead of per-platform schedulers.

What Makes Crontap Unique

• Works on any stack: One scheduler covers WordPress, Shopify, Cloud Run, Vercel, Railway, Heroku, Ghost and your own box — anything that answers HTTP.
• No per-task billing: Crontap charges zero tasks per invocation, so per-minute schedules don't rack up Zapier-style task counts.
• Sub-hour without redeploys: Change cadence in the UI instead of editing vercel.json and redeploying, and go below Vercel Hobby's hourly cap.
• Genuinely delightful UI: Plain-English parsing, live "next run" previews and a readable calendar make scheduling approachable for beginners.
• Cron and uptime in one place: Scheduled jobs and uptime monitors share a single dashboard, a combination most schedulers and monitors don't offer together.

Pros

• Fast setup: Paste a URL, set an interval, and you're done in about a minute — no IAM bindings or worker containers.
• Beginner-friendly yet powerful: Plain-English scheduling for newcomers, with full cron syntax, custom headers and JSON payloads when you need them.
• Reliable by default: Automatic retries, per-run logs and failure alerts mean you find out the moment something breaks.
• Generous free tier: A free-forever plan with one schedule, hourly intervals, email alerts and a 1-day uptime monitor — no credit card required.
• Flat, transparent pricing: Pro unlocks unlimited schedules and minute-level intervals starting at $3.25/month billed annually.

Cons

• API access is gated: Programmatic schedule creation via the REST API is only available on the Enterprise plan, not on Pro.
• Free tier is intentionally limited: One schedule, hourly cadence and 100 log entries mean serious use quickly requires upgrading to Pro.
• HTTP-only by design: Crontap drives endpoints that answer HTTP, so workloads that aren't reachable over a URL aren't a fit.

Links

• Crontap website
• Pricing
• Use cases
• Cron job debugger
• About Crontap

Summary

Crontap turns recurring HTTP calls into something you can set up in about a minute and actually trust. You bring a URL and a schedule — in plain English or full cron syntax — and it handles the timing, timezones, retries, logging and failure alerts. With minute-level cadence, per-schedule timezones, built-in uptime monitoring and a free-forever tier, it's a clean alternative to wp-cron, Vercel Cron and Cloud Scheduler for developers who just want their jobs to run.