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  • I wrote a mini bridge for Linux desktop notifications (via notify-send) for anyone that's interested:

    https://github.com/tim-projects/ntfy-notify-send-bridge

    by tim-projects
  • I've been looking for exactly this to run on my Librem 5, Thanks!
    by RunningDroid
  • I wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service.

    cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application

    I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.

    by Superbowl5889
  • I've been using ntfy for ages. Doesn't chew my battery too much. Chrome, mail and mattermost are my top. Ntfy gets less than 30 notifications per day.
    by edoceo
  • If you use ntfy.sh and don't use instant delivery, ntfy uses Google's FCM for delivery, which is what everyone else does. It doesn't require a foreground service and has no battery impact.

    ntfy offers you additional options with instant delivery or the selfhostable server. That requires a server connection and does impact battery a little. On my phone it doesn't show up in the list it's so low, but others have reported more consumption

    by binwiederhier
  • What do you mean by "battery consuming application"? At least the PWA of ntfy can use Web Push, which uses your browser's existing push notification service and should not consume any additional battery.
    by lxgr
  • FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging), and Apple's own APN (Apple Push Notifications) work as a single OS level service, and they are multiplexed so that many different apps can route through them with a single connection, even waking your phone/watch from sleep. There are open/de-Googled alternatives like UnifiedPush, but they're not integrated at the OS layer (they run as a background worker thread), and can't match the battery efficiency or sleep-wake capabilities of those built into the OS/low-level networking layer.
    by robgibbons
  • Probably not permissions so much as proper implementation of push messaging for mobile. Apple created a push message infrastructure and Google followed that allows their messaging infrastructure already running on the phone to multiplex messages for multiple apps without needing additional power for listening.

    I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn’t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.

    by NetMageSCW
  • nearly every MVP of mine adds Ntfy. Its too easy to not add.
    by heatmiser
  • Love ntfy. I've used it for a lot of things, but probably the most esoteric would be sending a notification from Minecraft via ComputerCraft 1.58 when my BuildCraft Quarry finishes: https://pastebin.com/n2PRwW0E
    by tomodachi94
  • Such a great, simple and reliable service. Using it for all sorts of things: nostr push notifications, link sharing between devices, grafana alert notifications.
    by jasonvorhe
  • Been running ntfy in my homelab for several years. Always works great!
    by ozarkerD
  • Incredibly useful to give any app the ability to send you a notification with a single line of code or shell.

    Only one minor caveat for self-hosted iOS users - content of the messages come from your server, but the trigger still comes from ntfy.sh server.

    by sixothree
  • I used them for some time but their Android app used to drain my battery fast, so I moved on onto a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone, and that supports all of the features that I need for push notifications
    by shellwizard
  • Love this service!

    I use it to send commands and URLs between my devices.

    On Linux you can do `ntfy sub` and on android you can have Tasker react when a ntfy notification arrives based on its title and contents. So on just about all my devices I have a background script running that is subscribed to a "DeviceCommands" channel that checks if the Title of new messages contains the device hostname or not. If it does it triggers a script based on the contents of the body.

    E.g.:

    Title: Pixel8

    Message: https://kagi.com

    Will automatically send the URL to my browser.

    Or:

    Title: LivingRoomPC

    Message: Shutdown

    Will shut down the computer.

    by KetoManx64
  • For people in the iOS / Apple ecosystem, check Hyperduck which is a neat app to do this
    by oulipo
  • Not Open Source but I’ve been using https://pushover.net/ for this use case since forever. The website still looks the same as on the day I signed up for it probably more than 10 years ago. Never had an issue and using that in all my scripts or cron jobs.
    by dewey
  • What's the advantage over, say, having a Telegram bot push you messages instead of notifications?
    by oulipo
  • I had all sorts of nfty notification to ios issues despite lots of trial and error and a bunch of AI tokens. I also moved to pushover.
    by Vaslo
  • I've been using Gotify [1] for a very long time and have been quite happy with it. Basically no impact on battery life. For devs - there are mature libraries like shoutrr [2] and apprise [3] that let you support multiple notification systems with no extra work.

    1. https://gotify.net/

    2. https://shoutrrr.nickfedor.com/v0.17.0/

    3. https://github.com/caronc/apprise

    by kayson
  • Right, but if you use ntfy.sh you can get proper mobile push notifications (instead of keeping the app running and using long polling or websockets).

    If you use the public version of ntfy.sh then you don't need to do anything to set this up. If you self-host, you need your own Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) account and (for iOS) your own Apple Developer account so you can use APN.

    by rahimnathwani
  • I'm the maintainer of ntfy. Happy to answer questions. Sorry that I'm late to the party :-)
    by binwiederhier
  • Thank you so much for this perfect product It completely fulfilled my needs

    And the opportunity to host it by myself is really useful The best of both worlds

    Thank you very much for your hard work

    by Fake4d
  • Thanks for building something so sicc.
    by skycaptain1
  • The problem with ntfy for me is that I get notifications on my mobile through the ntfy app. On desktop, in the browser (Safari on Mac), I only get notification pop-ups when the website is open.

    The worst part is that I don’t even see the notifications on the website that I received on my mobile while the website wasn’t open.

    by m_adrian
  • Thank you for ntfy. I self host it and love it.
    by noman-land
  • I'm a privacy focused self hoster and ntfy was not good enough for me so I created Prism with an optional Android app: https://git.lonecloud.dev/lone-cloud/prism

    The difference: Your phone doesn't get notifications from your notification service directly, but from Mozilla which helps to hide your digital fingerprint of you using a separate notification provider like ntfy. Prism also allows Telegram or Signal to act as a notification distributor. In addition, I use Proton Mail which doesn't really allow custom notification services. Prism has a custom integration to work around that so your proton mail notifications don't have to touch google services.

    by lone-cloud
  • In what ways is your digital fingerprint being monitored where your notification providers are being captured?
    by grapemane
  • Interesting, how is it able to send via Mozilla? I did a quick search in the repo and the term isn't found.
    by crtasm