# Big Arrow vs Pushary

> Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) to Pushary's 51.4 (D) for hitl ask. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do hitl ask.

- Big Arrow: grade BB, 70.7/100, rank #151 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json
- Pushary: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #807 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.json
- Best human approval and handoff for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/human-in-the-loop/index.md
- All 53 human approval comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/human-in-the-loop/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Big Arrow (BB)

Good for: An agent on a person's Mac that reaches a step only the person may do, such as a permission prompt, 2FA code or payment, and needs to show where.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 75 against 20
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 73
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 70 against 60

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions

### Pushary (D)

Good for: One developer running coding agents unattended who wants questions and approvals on a phone.

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Big Arrow | Pushary | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 20 | Big Arrow +55 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 73 | Big Arrow +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 76 | Big Arrow +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 64 | Big Arrow +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 10 | Big Arrow +50 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 60 | Big Arrow +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 63 | Pushary +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **70.7 · BB** | **51.4 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Big Arrow | Pushary |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | MCP server |
| Vendor | Franz Enzenhofer | Pushary |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT (skill, hooks and adapters) |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Pushary/pushary` |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 747 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Big Arrow.** An agent can show a person which control to click, with a labelled arrow that needs no permission to draw, never takes focus and always removes itself. The tool is a week old at version 0.4.6, runs only on macOS, reports no answer beyond how an arrow ended, and has no security policy.

**Pushary.** Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

## Before you call either

### Big Arrow

1. Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person
2. Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does
3. Pass `--app` or `--window` for any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered
4. On exit 4, run `bigarrow doctor` and ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow
5. Call `bigarrow stop` once the step is done, and add `bigarrow stop --hook` as a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook

### Pushary

1. Read `answered`, `status` and `handoffAction` on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
2. Expect `ask_user` to return at once with `answered: false` when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
3. Poll `wait_for_answer` once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
4. Cancel a live question with `cancel_question` before asking the same thing in chat
5. Group open decisions into one `select` question, since each push interrupts the user

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or Pushary?

Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Can an agent call Big Arrow and Pushary without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Big Arrow. Pushary has a hosted endpoint at https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp.

### Are Big Arrow and Pushary open source?

Big Arrow is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Pushary.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-pushary.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-pushary.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "bigarrow", "b": "pushary"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bigarrow pushary`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.json

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