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Notable changes to Simplepush, newest first.

27 September 2026 ​

Priority levels. Every notification, task, and subtask can now say how loudly it should interrupt, from 1 to 5. The default, 3, is what you had before.

  • 1 and 2 are quiet. No sound and no banner. They wait in Notification Center on iOS and in the shade on Android.
  • 4 gets through Focus and Do Not Disturb. Time-sensitive on iOS, a long vibration on Android.
  • 5 is for emergencies. A critical alert that sounds even on a muted phone, on both platforms. On iOS you can set its volume with criticalVolume.
  • Everywhere you send from. Priority and Critical-Volume headers for curl, priority and criticalVolume in the TypeScript and Python libraries, --priority and --critical-volume in sp task, sp subtask, and sp notify. critical: true keeps working and means priority 5. See Priority.
  • Android channels. The app has one notification channel per level, so you can change sound, vibration, and Do Not Disturb behavior for each level in the system settings.
  • App 1.1.0 on iOS and Android.

9 September 2026 ​

The new Simplepush. A rebuilt app, backend, and toolchain. This release replaces the previous generation of Simplepush.

  • Interactive tasks. Send a question along with your notification: free text, single or multiple choice, sliders, or Accept and Deny buttons. Answers arrive on your devices or back in your scripts.
  • Replies. Respond to tasks from the app with text, photos, voice notes, and files.
  • Send to your own devices. Send without a topic to reach only your devices.
  • Topics. Keys from the previous app are now topics. The app migrates your existing keys to topics.
  • Encryption, rebuilt. End-to-end encryption stays opt-in. When enabled, content is unreadable to us and to the push providers. Unfortunately encryption keys can not be migrated from the previous app and every user needs to setup encryption again.
  • Organizations. Invite members, assign topics centrally, and manage everything from the command line. Includes organization-wide end-to-end encryption.
  • New command line tool. sp sends notifications and tasks, collects answers, and streams events, built for scripting and automation.
  • New Python and TypeScript libraries. Redesigned APIs for sending, receiving, and collecting replies.
  • Markdown formatting. Task content can opt in to Markdown rendering.
  • File attachments. Photos, voice notes, and files with per-account storage pools.