ntfy

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service that lets you send push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST requests from any script or computer. It ships as a self-hostable Go server, a CLI, and open-source Android/iOS apps, with a free hosted instance at ntfy.sh.

Use cases

• notify me when a long-running script or backup finishes
• send push alerts to my phone from curl or a cron job
• self-host a push notification server without sign-ups or fees
• alert on unauthorized logins or home automation sensor events
• send files and images to my phone from a server
• integrate notifications into Home Assistant, Uptime Kuma, or changedetection.io

When to choose

• you want dead-simple push notifications via plain HTTP PUT/POST with no client SDK
• you need a self-hosted, free, open-source alternative to proprietary push services
• you want to alert from shell scripts, cron jobs, or monitoring tools like Uptime Kuma or Healthchecks.io
• you need notifications on Android/iOS with priorities, action buttons, tags, and attachments

When to avoid

• you need guaranteed message delivery, queuing semantics, or durable consumer offsets rather than best-effort notifications
• you require end-to-end encryption of message content on the public ntfy.sh service
• you need rich two-way chat or a full messaging platform instead of one-way alerts

Facets

service · maturity stable

message-queue http-server cli webhook self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted monitoring windows self-hosted go cross-platform push-notifications pub-sub rest-api notifications curl-friendly unifiedpush messaging automation linux macos android ios docker

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