Gotify Alternatives

Gotify reviews and mentions

• Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2026

  I do use gotify [1] which seems to be pretty much the same, and does the job quite well. Not sure how they compare, does ntfy goes through Google / Apple network or it's directly connected to your server instance?

  [1] https://gotify.net/

• Pushover
  3 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2026

  Gotify is a self-hosted notification server with a clean web UI for managing applications and messages. Each application gets its own token, and messages arrive via WebSocket — no polling, no push service dependency.

• The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2025

  I was reflecting on the whole chat apps and protocols the other day and felt we might just have trapped ourselves artificially.

  If I want to casually keep in touch with a friend, I am supposed to have the following options:

  - SMS/RCS: no need for an app but is controlled

  - WhatsApp: no good to many reasons

  - Signal: how can you believe it is not controlled once it becomes the mandatory app in the US Gov.

  - Matrix: great but you need to self host a server, create accounts, etc.

  - SimpleX: very interesting, but centralised and I feel it might just be the next Signal. Might be a solution since you can exit at some point by self hosting a server and I guess have alternative implementations.

  - Delta chat: great but I guess email fall into the mass surveillance target.

  Now most people do not have crazy security requirements and just want to be able to send a simple text message to a friend and be notified instantly without participating in mass surveillance. So why even using a formal Chat app that will be target by a regulation like Chat Control or kicked out of the App store?

  Something like Gotify [0] or ntfy [1] are almost enough for most users. It has the whole free from Google and Apple push notification system figured out. You would just need to modify a bit the app to exchange keys with a QR code for individual topics (that you would use as contact or groups).

  In a way we just need MQTT servers, a client with reliable push notifications and a manual key exchange mechanism. That would be really hard for govs to target.

  - [0] https://gotify.net/

  - [1] https://ntfy.sh/

• Gotify: A simple server for sending and receiving messages
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
• Self hosted alternative to email alerts?
  6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Jun 2023

  I use apprise with Gotify

• GitHub: List of open-source alternatives to everyday SaaS products
  8 projects | /r/opensource | 23 May 2023
• How to start a background service in Flutter that runs forever and listens on a WebSocket?
  1 project | /r/flutterhelp | 16 May 2023

  You can self-host a notification service using https://gotify.net/ for example, but you may need to ask the user to disable battery usage restrictions if you don't want the OS to kill the background process.

• [Self Hosted] Comment utilisez-vous Gottify?
  1 project | /r/enfrancais | 16 May 2023
• [Self Hosted] ¿Cómo usas Gotify?
  1 project | /r/enespanol | 27 Apr 2023
• Opposite version of healthchecks
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 12 Apr 2023

  If you do not need the state tracking, but instead need something that can deliver push notifications to you, check out ntfy and gotify

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