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  • I used it for a while. The iOS client had issue showing images (I can’t remember the details, it’s probably fixed by now) and the PWA wasn’t too reliable. I had to frequently login again to get it back in a working state

    I ended up switching to pushover and had no issue since

    by wrxd
  • Silly question maybe: why use this at all when you already have a well known, decentralised, vendor-independent, almost real-time, and persistent notification system at your disposal? I'm talking about email of course.
    by prima-facie
  • Email notifications are dependent on whatever push notifications your email app are using. Either it's set to reach out and check for new messages at a set interval or use a service like bluemail where you hand over your credentials and they send you a proper push via APNS or Google. Either way not as reliable in my experience.
    by panja
  • 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