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

I think you may have a an unrealized audience. I switched to a flip phone a while back and was able to sideload this app. I also set up ntfy in conjunction with Automate on my old smartphone. Now, I can get any notifications on my flip phone by essentially using my smartphone as a relay. Then, I can respond to people whenever I get back to my laptop. Ntfy keeps me aware of important notifications, but doesn't keep me on my phone all day. Love it!

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.

I'm definitely an old dog teaching myself new tricks, and so happy I came across this. Its just a great app and over all ecosystem. I'm just starting with the self hosted version of it and absolutely loving what it can do. My ONLY request is a widget for the android app, right now I'm using a work around, with another app I found, but I know if you make a native one, it will be that much better.

What’s new

This release is mainly a platform and dependency upgrade release, sprinkled with lots and lots of bugfixes. This version now targets SDK 33 (Android 13), and brings a few Android 13 specific improvements. Most prominently, ntfy now supports thematic/adaptic launcher icons.

Other than that, the app now doesn't crash anymore when you send large attachment images, and we fixed the notification icon color.

Details at https://docs.ntfy.sh/releases/