Gotify Has a Free Push Notification Server — Self-Hosted Alternative to Pushover

Gotify is a simple, self-hosted push notification server with a REST API.

What You Get for Free

• REST API — send notifications with a single HTTP call
• WebSocket — real-time notification delivery
• Android app — native push notifications
• Web UI — manage and view notifications in browser
• Applications — separate notification channels
• Priorities — urgent, normal, low priority levels
• Markdown — rich text notifications
• Plugins — extend with Go plugins
• Docker — single container deployment
• Unlimited notifications — no per-message pricing

Quick Start

# Docker
docker run -d -p 8080:80 gotify/server

# Send a notification (one curl)
curl "http://localhost:8080/message?token=APP_TOKEN" \
  -F "title=Deploy Complete" \
  -F "message=v2.3.1 deployed to production" \
  -F "priority=5"

Why Developers Choose It

Pushover costs $5 (one-time) per platform. PagerDuty is $19/user/mo:

• Free — unlimited messages, unlimited devices
• Self-hosted — notifications don't go through third-party servers
• Simple API — one HTTP call to send a notification
• Scriptable — trigger from cron jobs, CI/CD, monitoring

A DevOps engineer used to check deployment status manually. They added Gotify notifications to their CI pipeline — now every deploy, test failure, and alert pings their phone instantly. Setup took 10 minutes.

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