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Balance Shield by Activehours

Finance — Balance Shield helps users avoid costly overdraft fees by providing smart paycheck management to…
FinanceAnyone can copy thisfreemiumest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 17.9 · 2/4
17.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 371 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
adjust.com
edge
direct origin
server
Vercel
Tranco rank
#779
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Balance Shield by Activehours's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 17.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Chimehardwarecurated0.0-8.0■ inactive
Davefinancecurated46.50.0● live
Price Co Pilotfinancesimilar100%40.00.0● live
Hitlist 2.0traveltag-overlap100%0.40.0■ inactive
MoneyCoachfinancesimilar100%40.00.0● live
Todoist for Apple Watchproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
BabyTimecommunicationtag-overlap88%8.0-32.0— unverified
coin360financesimilar88%0.00.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:09Z429adjust.comVercel430unknown
2026-08-26 09:40Z429adjust.comVercel366unknown
2026-08-19 14:01Z429adjust.comVercel1072unknown
2026-08-11 00:36Z429adjust.comVercel457unknown
2026-08-08 06:29Z429adjust.comVercel486unknown
2026-08-05 18:49Z429adjust.comVercel522unknown
2026-07-30 18:03Z429adjust.comVercel241unknown
2026-07-23 09:24Z429adjust.comVercel301unknown
2026-07-22 09:27Z429adjust.comVercel380unknown
2026-07-21 09:28Z429adjust.comVercel172unknown
2026-07-20 09:56Z429adjust.comVercel312unknown
2026-07-19 09:07Z429adjust.comVercel239unknown
2026-07-18 08:48Z429adjust.comVercel67unknown
2026-07-17 09:09Z429adjust.comVercel151unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Balance Shield by Activehours · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/balance-shield-by-activehours · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.