Moving from Pushover to PushBell
Your Pushover integrations keep working: change the URL and the key. Notifications arrive with your own logo, sound and rules.
Move in three steps
- 1
Sign up
Create a free PushBell account and install the app on your phone.
- 2
Create a Pushover-compatible key
In the dashboard: API keys → Create key → "Pushover compatible (30 characters)".
- 3
Change the URL
api.pushbell.app instead of api.pushover.net; your PushBell user key as user. Parameters, responses and sound names stay the same.
- https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json + https://api.pushbell.app/1/messages.json
What's compatible
- Message API: title, message, priority (including emergency), sound, URL, HTML, attachment, TTL, timestamp, encrypted messages
- Receipts, cancel by tag and callbacks
- Groups and the groups API
- Subscriptions and user key migration
- Widget data (Glances), user validation, sound list, limits
- Team management (Teams API)
- Open Client API: desktop and Linux clients
- Sound names map to the closest PushBell sound
What you get with PushBell
- Notification types
- Many types in one project, each with its own logo, sound, link, buttons and text template.
- No request is ever rejected
- Every request is queued first; even when the quota runs out, notifications are held, not lost.
- Every device
- iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, the browser, Apple Watch, Wear OS and Android TV.
- No-code connections
- An email address and webhooks from Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, GitHub, Grafana and Uptime Kuma.
- Channels and smart devices
- Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, email; WLED, Tasmota and clock displays over MQTT.
- Teams and dashboards
- Roles, project permissions, delivery log, statistics, shop screen and agency mode.
Pricing model
The two services charge differently: Pushover sells a one-time license per receiving device platform, PushBell offers plans by monthly notification volume.
| Pushover | PushBell | |
|---|---|---|
| Receiving app | $4.99 one-time per platform (iPhone/iPad, Android, desktop separately), 30-day trial | Free plan, or one-time Personal – Lifetime ($9.99, all platforms) |
| Free sending | 10,000 messages per user per month | 1,000 notifications a month on the free plan |
| More volume | Sending capacity is upgraded separately | Monthly plans (e.g. Starter $5/mo), or overage billing / top-up packs |
| Teams | $5 per user per month (Pushover for Teams) | Team members are part of your plan; people who only receive notifications don't take a seat |
Pushover's figures are from pushover.net/pricing (October 2026). All plans →
Pushover is a trademark of Pushover, LLC. PushBell is not affiliated with Pushover, LLC; the name is used only to describe compatibility.