What's a free way to send notifications to my phone?
The easiest way is Lert. Download the app, copy your link, and POST to it — free. The free tier covers one channel and 50 notifications a day, with no account and no API key. Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited.
Free usually comes with strings — an ad-heavy app, a trial that expires, or a "free" tier you can't reach without a credit card. Lert's free tier is just free: install the app, copy your link, and start sending. You get one channel and 50 notifications per day, which is plenty for pinging yourself when a script finishes, a deploy ships, or a sale lands. No card, no account, no expiry.
Start free — under 30 seconds
- Download the app. It's free to install. Open it once — no account.
- Copy your link. Your private link is on screen — one tap copies it.
- Give it to your app or AI. Paste it into your code or a webhook and send.
Every one of those 50 daily notifications lands on your lock screen in about a second.
Your first free notification
curl -X POST "https://lert.dev/p/your-id" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"title":"Free and working","body":"Notification #1 of 50 today"}'
Fifty a day is more than most people need for personal alerts. If you're firing a stream of events, Lert Pro is $2.99/month and lifts the cap entirely — no per-notification pricing.
What "free" gets you: one channel, 50 notifications per day, and the same one-request API as Pro — no key, no account. It's a genuinely free ntfy alternative with a native iOS app, and a simpler Pushover alternative.
Common ways people use it
See the pricing page for the free-vs-Pro breakdown, or the docs for the full API.
Send your first one in 30 seconds.
Download Lert, copy your link, POST to it. Free — no card.