ntfy - PUT/POST to your phone

Philipp C. Heckel

About this app

Send push notifications to your phone from any Bash or PowerShell script, or from your own app using PUT/POST requests, e.g. via curl on Linux or Invoke-WebRequest.

ntfy is an Android client for https://ntfy.sh, a free and open source HTTP-based pub-sub service. You can subscribe to topics in this app, and then publish messages via a simple HTTP API.

Uses:
* Notify yourself when a long-running process is done
* Ping your phone when a backup has failed
* Alerts when someone logs into your server

Example:

$ curl -d "Your backup is done" ntfy.sh/mytopic

Find more examples and usage instructions here: https://ntfy.sh

Ratings and reviews

Incredible. Not only is it great but it's self hostable. I needed an unsecured way to send hundreds of push notifications to a batch of devices I own - to automate a task in tasker - and this app did it wonderfully after I self hosted and changed some parameters. Almost all devices get the notification instantly with no delay. I remember the day this app launched and it has come such a long way.

This is, by far, the best app I've found to seamlessly send notifications to my phone from nearly anything, including Home Assistant, Node-RED, random shell scripts, healthchecks.io; anything that can publish to webhooks. It's fully open source; you can even host the server yourself. There are some minor limits with the free tier, but they are *very* reasonable (250 notifications/day), and only apply to the official instance.