Thanks, I may have dismissed Pushover simply because it isn't free but a $5 one time purchase is actually not too bad.

I've used it for a very long time. it does only one thing, and does it well.

It's practically free. I bought the app once many years ago and have never sent more than 1000 pushes a month.

Additionally they support "Critical Alerts" on iOS for when you really need to get a notification regardless of whether or not you've muted your device. Probably something similar is possible on Android as well?

Yes, emergency priority: ignores do-not-disturb, full volume, and repeats every x minutes until acknowledged (x is configurable when sending the notification).

On Android, Pushover is able to (optionally) play notification sounds for high-priority messages through the alarm channel like an alarm app would, so it can bypass the device's mute switch.

This has been requested in ntfy as well. I'll likely implement that eventually. Sounds like a great feature.

+1 for pushover

I’ve been using for quite a fee years. The app is not free but once you pay the one-time fee for the app, they have a generous free tier for personal use, and it has worked quite flawlessly for me so far.

Yep. Same for me. Reliable, not subscription based and very easy to integrate. Nothing fancy in a positive manner.

I'm using Pushover a lot, it exists for a very long time, never changes and just works. It's also very easy to wire it up to existing tools as it can listen to webhooks.

In my case I just did that recently to receive webhooks and send them to my phone: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/push-notifications-from-ap...

I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last.

I set up Tasker on my phone such that when a specific low-priority (no visible/audible alert) message from pushover, containing only a hash key, is received it picks it up and does an HTTPS request to my self-hosted server to retrieve the actual notification text.

I have a bash/websocat client connected 24/7 to wss://client.pushover.net/ as well that I should probably put up on git for other people.

Pushover requires a monthly subscription for teams. I guess that’s what most of their revenue comes from anyway.

That is correct. Pushover has been around for 10 years now and I get most of its financial support from Team subscriptions.

https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2022/3/ten

Any individual users wanting to support Pushover are welcome to join as a personal Team with 1 member :)

For those who have Pushover account, can check this out [1] Hacker News notification service via Pushover.

[1] https://hnn.avci.me

Also pushover fan. I have come to rely on it for critical monitoring alerts, and have not yet experienced failure in many years of use.