Alternatives to Pushcut
An iOS app that shows actionable notifications and widgets triggered by webhooks, Shortcuts and HomeKit. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pushcut
An iOS app that shows actionable notifications and widgets triggered by webhooks, Shortcuts and HomeKit.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pushcut.
Pushover
A notification service that delivers push messages from scripts, services and apps to phones and desktops.
Pushover delivers push messages from scripts and services to Android, iOS and desktop browsers, but it does not run Shortcuts or offer HomeKit triggers and widgets.
Pushsafer
A push notification service that delivers alerts to phones, Windows PCs, browsers and Telegram.
Pushsafer sends alerts to Android, iOS, Windows, browsers and Telegram, but it lacks Shortcuts actions and is not free to use.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Pushcut as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
ntfy
Send push notifications from scripts using HTTP requests.
Pushcut is a proprietary iOS app with actionable notifications triggered by webhooks, Shortcuts and HomeKit, limited to Apple devices and without a self-hosted server.
Prowl
An iOS app that receives push notifications sent from computers, apps and services through its API.
Pushcut stays on Apple devices but adds actionable notifications that run Shortcuts, HomeKit triggers and widgets, with a freemium model instead of Prowl's paid app.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Alerter
A command-line tool for sending interactive macOS notifications from shell scripts and other programs.
Make
A visual automation platform, formerly Integromat, that connects apps and webhooks into workflows.
Activepieces
An open-source automation platform for building workflows, AI agents and app integrations, self-hosted or cloud.
Pushbullet
A service that links phones and computers for sending pushes, sharing files and mirroring SMS.
Apprise API
A self-hosted REST API that wraps the Apprise library to send notifications to many services.