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.

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.

What’s new

Features:
* Show notification when connection to server has been lost for 15+ minutes, with dismiss, snooze and never-show-again actions

Bug fixes + maintenance:
* Fix crash in settings when fragment is detached during backup/restore or log operations