Bark

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (MIT)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2018

Status

Active

Website

github.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Notification delivery checklist

3 of 8 confirmed in Bark's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Notifications.

• + Mobile push Yes
• x SMS No
• x Voice calls No
• x Email No
• x Chat apps No
• + HTTP API or webhook ingest Yes
• + Bypass silent mode Yes
• x Acknowledgement No

iOS push-only app driven by HTTP GET/POST; supports critical alerts. No SMS, voice, email, chat or acknowledgement.

Checked against: github.com

Alternatives to Bark

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• ntfy HTTP-based pub-sub push service: POST a message to a topic URL and it arrives on phones and desktops through the ntfy apps. Use the public server, a paid plan, or self-host.
• Pocket Alert Push notifications to an iOS or Android app from a REST API, a webhook with JSON mapping, or integrations such as Grafana, Datadog and Prometheus.
• Prometheus Alertmanager Receives alerts from Prometheus and compatible systems, then groups, deduplicates, silences and routes them to email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks and other receivers.
• PushBits Self-hosted relay that delivers push notifications to you through Matrix, with an API similar to Gotify and Pushover.
• Pushover Push notification service with iOS, Android and desktop apps and a simple API supported by many monitoring tools, including an emergency priority that repeats until acknowledged.
• SIGNL4 Mobile alerting app that delivers alerts to the team on duty by push, SMS and voice call, with acknowledgements, duty scheduling and many monitoring integrations.
• A Apprise Python library, CLI and API server that sends one notification to many services such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, email and SMS gateways using URL-style targets.
• K Kubewatch Kubernetes watcher that reports resource changes in the cluster to Slack, Mattermost and other chat channels or to a webhook.
• M Mailrise SMTP gateway that turns incoming emails into Apprise notifications, so devices that can only send email alerts can reach push, chat and other services.
• P prometheus-msteams Small proxy that receives Alertmanager webhooks and forwards them as formatted cards to Microsoft Teams channels.