I'm John Mobley. I've been helping people build systems since 2000, when I was 16. Most of that work came down to the same chores, over and over: keep the jobs running, catch what broke, don't let a bad change go live, don't let the disk fill up, and tell the right person only what actually needs them.
So I automated it. Mobley is the operator that runs my own companies every day, on one Mac, while I work on other things.
A lot of companies charge every month for tools that do part of this. Here it is for one dollar. Pay once and it's yours: one file on your own machine, no account, no subscription, nothing leaving your computer.
One payment through VendyAI's secure checkout. You get a key and a one-line install for macOS (launchd) or Linux (systemd); it needs python3 3.9+. One file, standard library only, so you can read every line before you run it.
Backups, reports, syncs: mobley add backup --every 1h -- ./backup.sh, then mobley sync. Each run is locked, logged and timed out if it sticks.
A watchdog every 10 minutes reruns any job that failed or is overdue, retries with backoff, and flags it after two failures in a row.
mobley ship --live … --preview … -- deploy compares the new version with live first and holds it if scripts, images, the title, the heading, text or links went missing.
Register folders of throwaway output; when free space drops under your floor, Mobley sweeps old files there, and only there.
mobley check example.com: status, https, speed, title, description, heading, HSTS, broken links, mixed content, scored out of 100.
Repeat failures, held ships, a low disk and anything you add yourself, tagged money, irreversible or new scope. Every morning at 08:00.
The guard Mobley runs before every ship. Give it the live page and the new version.
The demo pair is a bakery's page and a broken redesign of it.
The nightly check Mobley runs on every site you own.
Enter any public site.
An illustration of the output format; run mobley selftest to watch every part work for real on your machine.
| Tool | What it covers | Listed price |
|---|---|---|
| Zapier Professional | Automations between apps | from $19.99 a month |
| Healthchecks.io Business | Alerts when scheduled jobs stop running | $20 a month |
| Cronitor Business | Job and uptime monitoring | $2 a month per monitor + $5 a month per user |
| Mobley | Runs and restarts your jobs, holds bad site changes, keeps the disk clear, checks your sites, one list of what needs you | $1, once |
Prices as listed on each company's own pricing page on 29 October 2026. Each also has a limited free tier, and each does things Mobley doesn't; the comparison below says which.
n8n is the self-hosted automation leader. It is the better tool for wiring hundreds of apps together in a visual editor. Mobley is for keeping one machine and its sites working without you watching.
| Mobley | n8n (self-hosted) | |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled runs on your own machine | Yes | Yes |
| Run history and logs | Yes | Yes |
| Retry on failure, timeouts | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts when something keeps failing | Yes, on the needs-you list and a desktop notice | Yes, error workflows |
| Visual workflow editor | No: jobs are commands | Yes |
| Hundreds of app integrations | No | Yes |
| Webhook triggers | No | Yes |
| Stored credentials | No: your jobs read their own | Yes |
| Holds a site change that would make a page worse | Yes | No |
| Keeps the disk from filling | Yes | No |
| Site health check | Yes | No (build it yourself) |
| One list of what needs a person | Yes | No |
| Install | One file, no database, no server | Node or Docker, a database, a web server |