Alternatives to Apprise API
A self-hosted REST API that wraps the Apprise library to send notifications to many services. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Apprise API
A self-hosted REST API that wraps the Apprise library to send notifications to many services.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Apprise API.
Novu
Open-source notification infrastructure that sends in-app, email, SMS, push and chat messages through one API.
Novu offers one API for in-app, email, SMS, push and chat messages with a workflow editor, but it is aimed at developers building products and some features may be enterprise-only.
Notify
A Go command-line tool that sends the output of other tools or files to messaging platforms.
Notify is a single Go command-line binary that pipes command output to chat platforms, replacing a hosted REST relay with a local tool and supporting fewer providers.
Mailrise
An SMTP server that turns the emails it receives into Apprise push notifications.
Mailrise accepts email over SMTP and turns it into Apprise notifications, suiting email-only devices rather than scripts calling a REST API, and is still self-hosted in Docker.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Apprise API as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Apprise
Send application notifications through many messaging services.
Apprise API wraps the same library in a self-hosted REST API running as a Docker container, so any language can send notifications, but you maintain the server.
ntfy
Send push notifications from scripts using HTTP requests.
Apprise API is a self-hosted MIT-licensed REST API that relays notifications to many services, but has no hosted option and needs another tool to send messages.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pushover
A notification service that delivers push messages from scripts, services and apps to phones and desktops.
Pushsafer
A push notification service that delivers alerts to phones, Windows PCs, browsers and Telegram.
Matrix Hookshot
A self-hosted Matrix bot that bridges GitHub, GitLab, Jira, feeds and generic webhooks into rooms.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
NextPush
An Android UnifiedPush distributor that delivers push notifications through your own Nextcloud server.
Diun
A self-hosted tool that notifies you when container images you use get new tags or digests.
