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7 self-hosted NotificationAPI alternatives

API-first SaaS for sending multi-channel notifications (email, SMS, push, in-app). Provides message templating, user preference management, event-based routing, delivery tracking and integrations to enable developer-driven notification workflows.

Alternatives to NotificationAPI

ntfy is a lightweight HTTP pub-sub service to send push notifications to phones, desktops, and browsers via PUT/POST or a REST API.

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33.8k stars1.6k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

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Svix is an open-source webhook service that handles event ingestion, signing, retries, and endpoint management with scalable delivery and client libraries.

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3.4k stars273 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Developer-focused platform for automated, omnichannel messaging (email, SMS, push, WhatsApp) with low-code journeys, segmentation, templates, and self-hosting.

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2.9k stars380 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Hook0 is an open-source Webhooks-as-a-Service platform to send events via a single API call with subscriptions, retries, persistence, and monitoring.

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1.5k stars103 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open-source multi-channel notification service with REST API, management UI, templates and channel abstraction for email, web, push and SMS; built with ASP.NET Core and React.

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878 stars83 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source event tracker for tech products: ingest key events, send push notifications, run webhook actions, and monitor critical workflows in real time.

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477 stars18 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Lightweight Go service that forwards events from a standalone Frigate NVR to Discord, Matrix, SMTP, webhooks and many services (via Apprise). Supports MQTT or direct API and Docker.

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408 stars43 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

What replacing NotificationAPI actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 7 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, MIT, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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