ntfy.vaspian.me
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Wire up your phone

The ntfy mobile app subscribes to a topic and delivers every published message as a native push notification. You can subscribe to multiple topics; priorities ride per-message.

iOS
App Store
ntfy by Philipp C. Heckel
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AND
Play Store
F-Droid also available
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Steps

  1. 01
    Install the ntfy app on your phone.

    Use the links above. The app is free and open source — no account required.

  2. 02
    Tap the + to add a subscription.

    Leave the server as the default ntfy.sh — we do not run a private broker.

  3. 03
    Enter the topic name exactly.

    Topic names are case-sensitive and globally namespaced — typos silently subscribe you to someone else's topic. Browse the topic list to copy the right one.

  4. 04
    Allow notifications + critical alerts.

    On iOS, enable Time-Sensitive and Critical Alerts in the app's notification settings so Priority: 5 messages bypass focus modes.

  5. 05
    Verify with a test publish.

    Use the test publish page on this site, or send to vaspian-test from any shell.

Recommended subscriptions

Start with these — they're the topics you'll regret missing.

vaspian-alerts
Vaspian operational alerts you should see during work hours
Open in app
aloi-homelab-alerts
Home lab — services, hosts, containers
Open in app
aloi-wan-alerts
Home WAN going down means your work-from-home setup is in trouble
Open in app

Heads up — topics are unauthenticated

Anyone who knows a topic name on ntfy.sh can subscribe to it or publish to it. We don't put secrets, customer data, or anything sensitive in the message body. Treat topic names as low-entropy; if a topic ever needs to be private, we'll switch it to a self-hosted broker with auth.