{"slug": "pushover", "name": "Pushover", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 7, "warners": 0, "score": 4.502, "rising": 2.67, "first": "2026-05-11", "latest": "2026-09-28", "why": "a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone", "icon": true, "domain": "pushover.net", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://pushover.net", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Pushover"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 788926417, "item_id": 49307901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307901", "by": "wrxd", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ended up switching to pushover and had no issue since", "excerpt": "I used it for a while. The iOS client had issue showing images (I can\u2019t remember the details, it\u2019s probably fixed by now) and the PWA wasn\u2019t 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", "context": "", "use_case": "push notifications", "switched_from": "ntfy", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 788845969, "item_id": 49302873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302873", "by": "shellwizard", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone", "excerpt": "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", "context": "", "use_case": "push notifications", "switched_from": "ntfy", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 788791904, "item_id": 49299494, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299494", "by": "NetMageSCW", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn\u2019t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.", "excerpt": "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\u2019t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.", "context": "", "use_case": "email push notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 769486144, "item_id": 48092884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092884", "by": "weddpros", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "since that's what I use for all my indie web apps events.", "excerpt": "I really wanted to be notified of my Cloudflare builds in Pushover, since that's what I use for all my indie web apps events. You can deploy it in minutes on your Cloudflare account. - create an App in https://Pushover.net - click the Deploy on Cloudflare button on the Github Readme - configure the two Pushover secrets (User key and App token) in the form Enjoy.", "context": "indie web app developer", "use_case": "build notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Send Cloudflare Worker build events to Pushover"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "weddpros", "context": "indie web app developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092884", "date": "2026-05-11"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["push notifications", "irc push notifications on ios", "email push notifications", "agent attention alerts", "mobile notifications", "build notifications"], "compared": [{"slug": "ntfy", "name": "ntfy", "co": 3, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296902", "title": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913", "title": "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756578", "title": "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557937", "title": "Show HN: Memento \u2013 Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092688", "title": "Show HN: Send Cloudflare Worker build events to Pushover", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-09": {"compare": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798131106, "item_id": 49883194, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883194", "by": "stackghost", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "compare", "quote": "for iOS I am still evaluating the alternatives but pushover looks okay", "excerpt": ">I'm searching for a simple, self-hosted chat system that allows me to host unlimited bots and send messages (with notifications) to my iPhone easily. I do this with IRC. I used to have a blog post up about it, back when blogs weren't just training data providers for LLMs, but I'm afraid it's been deleted. tl;dr IRC works great, but you need to wire up push notifications. For android I used pushbullet, for iOS I am s", "context": "", "use_case": "IRC push notifications on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"}, {"id": 788926417, "item_id": 49307901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307901", "by": "wrxd", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ended up switching to pushover and had no issue since", "excerpt": "I used it for a while. The iOS client had issue showing images (I can\u2019t remember the details, it\u2019s probably fixed by now) and the PWA wasn\u2019t 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", "context": "", "use_case": "push notifications", "switched_from": "ntfy", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 788845969, "item_id": 49302873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302873", "by": "shellwizard", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone", "excerpt": "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", "context": "", "use_case": "push notifications", "switched_from": "ntfy", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 788791904, "item_id": 49299494, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299494", "by": "NetMageSCW", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn\u2019t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.", "excerpt": "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\u2019t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.", "context": "", "use_case": "email push notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 781278099, "item_id": 48829881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829881", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I rely on a hook+Pushover to alert me when my attention is needed which works but has not been without frustration.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using tmux (with the wonderful iTerm2 integration) for almost a year now to manage agents as well as organize my workspaces. I initially wrote this off but looking closer I think I\u2019m going to give a shot. My mobile experience is acceptable (Blink shell + tmux) but not ideal and the monitoring of agents is nice. Currently I rely on a hook+Pushover to alert me when my attention is needed which works but has n", "context": "", "use_case": "agent attention alerts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"}, {"id": 777396865, "item_id": 48587304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587304", "by": "georgeck", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I already had Pushover [1], so I connected the script to send notifications to my mobile device.", "excerpt": "The day this story was posted on Show HN, I didn\u2019t want to be glued to the screen, waiting for new comments. So, I asked Gemini to write a script that listens for new comments on Firebase. I already had Pushover [1], so I connected the script to send notifications to my mobile device. I ran the script and forgot about it. Today, I woke up to multiple notifications. I believe this script could be useful for other HN u", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Memento \u2013 Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email"}, {"id": 769486144, "item_id": 48092884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092884", "by": "weddpros", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "since that's what I use for all my indie web apps events.", "excerpt": "I really wanted to be notified of my Cloudflare builds in Pushover, since that's what I use for all my indie web apps events. You can deploy it in minutes on your Cloudflare account. - create an App in https://Pushover.net - click the Deploy on Cloudflare button on the Github Readme - configure the two Pushover secrets (User key and App token) in the form Enjoy.", "context": "indie web app developer", "use_case": "build notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Send Cloudflare Worker build events to Pushover"}]}