---
id: apprise
version: "1.12.0"
license: BSD-2-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# apprise — Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 12.3M/mo

## What it is and what it does

Apprise is a notification library that abstracts away the differences between dozens of notification services—Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, SMS, IRC, and many others—behind a single Python API and command-line interface. Instead of writing separate code for each service, you define notification targets using a common URL-like syntax and call one method to send to all of them. The library handles authentication, message formatting, and delivery asynchronously.

It's designed for two audiences: developers who want to add multi-service notifications to applications without learning each service's API, and system administrators or DevOps engineers who need a CLI tool to send alerts from scripts or monitoring systems. The package is lightweight, has low install friction, and supports modern Python versions (3.9+).

Use it for:

- Send alerts from monitoring or CI/CD systems to multiple channels (Slack, Discord, email) with one call
- Build a multi-platform notification feature into an application without hardcoding each service's API
- Notify on-call teams via their preferred channels (Telegram, PagerDuty, Gotify) from a single script
- Aggregate notifications from different sources into a unified CLI tool for system administrators
- Test notification delivery across multiple services during development or staging

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Apprise sends notifications to dozens of popular services (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, and many others) through a single unified library with a common syntax.

Yes. Apprise is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and solves a real problem—coordinating notifications across many services. The permissive BSD-2-Clause license poses no barrier. Install it if you need to send notifications to multiple platforms or want to avoid vendor lock-in to a single service.

## Install

pip install apprise
uv add apprise
poetry add apprise

## Installing apprise

Before you install: Low install friction with seven common runtime dependencies (requests, click, PyYAML, certifi, tzdata, and OAuth support). Active maintenance with recent releases; last commit 2026-08-12 and 17045 GitHub stars indicate sustained development.

License in practice: BSD-2-Clause is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions—suitable for most projects.

Quickstart:

pip install apprise

from apprise import Apprise

a = Apprise()
a.add('discord://webhook_id/webhook_token')
a.notify(title='Title', body='Message')

Verify before relying:

- Whether all listed notification services in the description are fully functional or if some are experimental/deprecated
- Performance characteristics when sending to many services simultaneously despite async claims
- Whether image and attachment support is uniform across all services or varies by provider

## Package facts

- License: BSD-2-Clause (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 12.3M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

multi-service notification library, send notifications to discord slack telegram, unified notification api, notification service abstraction, cross-platform alerts, notification aggregation, cli notification tool, notifications, multi-service, cli-tool

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