# Apprise

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Apprise and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-source library that lets scripts and apps send notifications to many services through one common interface, and it has matured since about 2018.

## Why people recommend it

- One interface for many notification systems (2 comments): "there are mature libraries like shoutrr [2] and apprise [3] that let you support multiple notification systems with no extra work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300041)) "give scripts and applications one common interface for sending notifications" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887740))
- Sends to many different services (2 comments): "The nice thing about Apprise is that it can direct notifications to various places" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598812)) "we've chosen Apprise just for the big number of services supported" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291714))

## What people warn about

- Far more services than most setups need (1 comments): "Seems like most setups only really need 2-3 channels, rather than the ~140 supported by Apprise." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304129))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ntfy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ntfy.md): 41 recommend
- [Pushover](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pushover.md): 13 recommend
- [Firebase Cloud Messaging](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firebase-cloud-messaging.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Apprise", https://hackerapproved.com/p/apprise/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).