Notifo
Multi-channel notification platform for apps and customers
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Last commit 2 Aug 2026.
Notifo is an open-source, multi-channel notification service for applications, e-commerce and publishing scenarios. It provides a REST API and a management UI to create templates, manage users and subscriptions, and deliver notifications across channels.
Key Features
- Rich REST API with OpenAPI-style documentation for creating events, users and subscriptions
- Management UI for notification templates, users, projects, subscriptions and settings
- Email template support with MJML and Liquid-style templating
- Channel abstraction with adapters for Email (Amazon SES), Web (SignalR / sockets), Web Push, Mobile Push (Firebase) and SMS (MessageBird)
- Reliable delivery with retry mechanisms, queues and schedulers for undelivered or unconfirmed notifications
- Topic-based subscription model (hierarchical topic paths) and per-topic user preferences
- Tracking of read/confirmed notifications and delivery reporting
- Web plugin / overlay to embed notifications into client applications
Use Cases
- Customer alerts and marketing notifications for e-commerce (price drops, order updates)
- Real-time notifications for collaboration and task management systems (project/task events)
- Publishing and news delivery where users subscribe to topics or categories for updates
Limitations and Considerations
- Project is marked beta: some channels/features (notably mobile push and email integrations) have limited production usage
- Currently relies on MongoDB as primary datastore; multi-database support is planned but not complete
- Provider ecosystem is limited out of the box (specific providers implemented; adding new email/SMS providers requires development)
- Tests and automated API/UI test coverage are limited and further hardening of queues/schedulers is recommended
Notifo is suitable for teams wanting a self-hostable notification platform with topic-based subscriptions and multi-channel delivery. It combines an ASP.NET Core backend and a React/TypeScript frontend and is intended for integration into web and mobile applications.
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