Alternatives to Pushover
A notification service that delivers push messages from scripts, services and apps to phones and desktops. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pushover
A notification service that delivers push messages from scripts, services and apps to phones and desktops.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pushover.
Pushsafer
A push notification service that delivers alerts to phones, Windows PCs, browsers and Telegram.
Pushsafer also sends alerts by API, email or URL to Android, iOS, Windows and browsers and can forward to Telegram, but it has no self-hosted option either.
Pushcut
An iOS app that shows actionable notifications and widgets triggered by webhooks, Shortcuts and HomeKit.
Pushcut delivers webhook-triggered actionable notifications that run Shortcuts, but it works only on Apple devices.
NextPush
An Android UnifiedPush distributor that delivers push notifications through your own Nextcloud server.
NextPush is free and open source, delivering push through your own Nextcloud server, but it is Android only and works only with UnifiedPush apps.
Pushbullet
A service that links phones and computers for sending pushes, sharing files and mirroring SMS.
Pushbullet is a freemium service for pushes, file sharing and SMS mirroring between phones and computers, aimed at personal use rather than script and server alerts.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Pushover as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Prowl
An iOS app that receives push notifications sent from computers, apps and services through its API.
Pushover delivers script and server alerts to Android, iOS, watches and desktop browsers with no subscription for individuals, but it is paid per platform after the trial.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Apprise API
A self-hosted REST API that wraps the Apprise library to send notifications to many services.
Novu
Open-source notification infrastructure that sends in-app, email, SMS, push and chat messages through one API.
Alerter
A command-line tool for sending interactive macOS notifications from shell scripts and other programs.
Mailrise
An SMTP server that turns the emails it receives into Apprise push notifications.
Notify
A Go command-line tool that sends the output of other tools or files to messaging platforms.
Notifiarr
A notification hub that sends alerts from media servers, arr apps and system monitors to Discord.
