# Apprise

Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

Repository: https://github.com/caronc/apprise
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/apprise
Homepage: https://hub.docker.com/r/caronc/apprise
Language: Python
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: notifications, notification-hub, notification-api, python, notification-service, alerts, notify, push-notifications, framework, apprise, notifier
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:40:36+00:00
Link (homepage): https://hub.docker.com/r/caronc/apprise
Link (site_page): https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub
Link (site_page): https://www.docker.com/docs
Link (site_page): https://www.docker.com/company

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3203, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 44.5, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17181, forks 648 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:17.785746+00:00)

## What it is
Apprise is a Python library and CLI tool that lets you send push notifications to 100+ popular services (Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, SMS, and more) through a single unified URL-based syntax. It also ships as a companion REST API (apprise-api) deployable as a lightweight Dockerized microservice.

## Use cases
- send alerts to slack discord and telegram from a script
- notify me when a backup finishes
- add push notifications to my python app without integrating each service
- self-host a notification gateway api
- send email and sms alerts from cron jobs
- unified notification library for devops alerting

## When to choose
- you need to notify many different services from one codebase or CLI
- you want a self-hosted notification API microservice
- you want to avoid integrating each notification provider individually

## When to avoid
- you only ever target a single notification service and want a minimal dependency
- you need a full monitoring/alerting pipeline with dashboards and escalation rules

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: middleware, webhook, cli, email, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, messaging-platforms, self-hosted
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli, self-hosted
- tags: push-notifications, notification-hub, alerts, notification-api, microservice, automation, devops, docker

## Member repositories
- caronc/apprise (main) score 95
- caronc/apprise-api (backend) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.785746+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:03:28.577337+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/caronc/apprise (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.785746+00:00, sha 0d7bbc8e7467)
  - homepage: https://hub.docker.com/r/caronc/apprise (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:31.848391+00:00, sha 7b4dfebd243f)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:31.851250+00:00, sha caaa18892709)
  - site_page: https://www.docker.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:31.853086+00:00, sha aeada2272712)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/apprise/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:31.856532+00:00, sha 4b03f6bd53e1)
  - site_page: https://www.docker.com/company (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:31.854851+00:00, sha 05ab59b2bc29)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.