In short, Pushover is a service to receive instant push notifications on your phone or tablet from a variety of sources. To quickly get started:

1. Install our client app on your iPhone/iPad or Android device, or register your Desktop browser.
2. Launch the client and it will walk you through creating a Pushover account and registering your device with our servers.
3. You'll get a new User Key e-mailed to you (which you can always find on your dashboard or through the Settings menu of the Pushover client app on your device). Your User Key is a randomly generated identifier which allows

Short answer For individuals, after a 30-day free trial, it costs $4.99 USD once, per-platform (iPhone/iPad, Android, Desktop), to use on all of your own devices1 on that platform as you want. There are no monthly or yearly fees and you can receive as many notifications as you can handle. Long answer As an end-user receiving push notifications, our iPhone, iPad, Android, and Desktop clients are free to try for 30 days. After 30 days, you'll need to purchase a $4.99 USD license for each platform you wish to use it on. Once you've licensed a particular platform, you can

For most Pushover users, you'll be receiving messages through applications and services that already support Pushover.  You'll input your Pushover User Key or go through the notification subscription process to receive notifications without having to enter a User Key.  You can also use our E-Mail Gateway to receive Pushover notifications from software and services that doesn't support Pushover, but which can send e-mail.

For developers or users wanting to send notifications to other users, you'll use our Message API to send notifications to other Pushover users.  Each user you want to send notifications to will need to have a Pushover

For most users, no. Pushover does all of its communication with your device over the Internet, using the connection your phone already has to Google or Apple for receiving push notifications.

While you will not incur per-message SMS charges for receiving Pushover notifications, it also means that Pushover requires a working WiFi or cellular data connection to receive notifications. If your phone is out of range of a data provider, it will receive all queued up notifications once it establishes a working data connection.

Slide out the application list by sliding left-to-right, then tap-and-hold on a particular application to access its context menu where you'll be able to delete all of its messages or re-fetch its icon.

To delete all messages globally, tap-and-hold on the All Messages entry and then tap on the Delete All Messages option.

Due to the design of our systems, we do not store messages on our servers once they have been reliably received by your device client. To view a notification on multiple devices on your account, it must have been delivered to those devices. By default, all notifications sent to your account will be delivered to all active devices on your account. If you delete a message on one device, it will not affect that message stored on any of your other devices.

No, Pushover's API only integrates with our branded iPhone/iPad, Android, and Desktop client apps and is designed to be a complete, end-to-end solution for individuals and organizations needing to send notifications out, and receive them on their own devices.

Unlike wholesale notification providers like Urban Airship or Parse, who provide an API to handle dispatching bulk notifications through Apple and Google servers to be received by your own iPhone and Android apps, Pushover only works with our own apps and we cannot send notifications to other mobile apps.

Additionally, our service cannot be integrated into other websites to push notifications