Push Live Activities, Live Updates, widgets, notifications and email from Grafana alerts, Home Assistant, GitHub Actions or anything else that speaks HTTP.
iPhone Live Activity
{"content": {
"current_step": 1
}}
Android Live Update
One API call. iPhone and Android.
PushWard hands it to APNs and FCM at the same time. No Firebase project, no device tokens, no second integration.
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Every event you send updates the Live Activity instantly — no refresh, no polling. Here's the stream, running live.Every event you send updates the Live Update in the notification shade instantly, with no refresh and no polling.
One HTTP request. Real-time on every iPhone.One HTTP request. Real-time on every phone with Android 12 or later.
Workday script
At 7:00 a small script asks on the Lock Screen. Tapping Start answers it, and the card turns into an eight-hour countdown.At 7:00 a small script asks in the notification shade. Tapping Start answers it, and the card turns into an eight-hour countdown.
Workday script sends through REST API to PushWard, which delivers to iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, Mac.
# 07:00 from cron or launchd
curl -X POST https://api.pushward.app/activities \
-H "Authorization: Bearer hlk_YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"slug": "approval-request",
"name": "Workday"
}'
curl -X PATCH https://api.pushward.app/activities/approval-request \
-H "Authorization: Bearer hlk_YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/merge-patch+json" \
-d '{
"state": "ongoing",
"content": {
"template": "approval",
"state": "Start your workday?",
"source": "Script",
"icon": "calendar",
"accent_color": "blue",
"details": [
{
"label": "Calendar",
"value": "3 meetings, first at 9:30"
}
],
"options": [
{
"id": "start",
"title": "Start",
"style": "primary"
},
{
"id": "later",
"title": "Later",
"style": "secondary"
}
]
}
}'Beyond Live Activities, the same API delivers full iOS push notifications — rich layout, image attachments, action and snooze buttons, custom sender icons, iMessage-style chat bubbles, and notifications the sender takes back once they no longer apply.Beyond Live Updates, the same API sends full Android notifications: action buttons and inline replies, snooze buttons, alerts that stay until someone acknowledges them, notifications the sender takes back once they no longer apply, and approvals a script can wait on, like this production deploy.
Push live data to your Home and Lock Screen from any HTTP source — no polling, no waiting. Tap a widget to fire a webhook, start a job, or open another app, without launching PushWard.Register a widget once and PATCH its value whenever it changes. The home screen updates without opening the app.
Explore the iOS Widgets APIExplore the Widgets API →
Compose a Markdown message and send it to any address you've verified — a written, searchable record that's still there long after a Lock Screen banner has faded.Compose a Markdown message and send it to any address you've verified: a written, searchable record that's still there long after the notification has been cleared.
Generate a share code and the activity syncs to another iPhone or Android phone in real time: updates, state changes and completion pushes, all mirrored. Recipients join free, no subscription needed.
Pick a scenario and watch a real notification land on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and widgets.Pick a scenario and watch a real notification land in the notification shade, in the status bar and as a heads-up.
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Webhooks, Docker containers, or smart home. All paths end on your Lock Screen.
Point your service's webhook URL at relay.pushward.app. We transform it into a Live Activity automatically.
Run dedicated bridges for services that need polling or direct API access.
Install via HACS. Track any entity — sensors, switches, automations — as Live Activities on your Lock Screen.
Install the PushWard integration from HACS and your automations get the notification features you know from the Home Assistant Companion app.
pushward agent hooks into Claude Code and Codex. When the agent wants to run a command or edit a file, or Claude has questions for you, the prompt lands on your Lock Screen as an approval card, one question at a time, and your tap goes back to the session. While you are at your Mac, it stays in the terminal.pushward agent hooks into Claude Code and Codex. When the agent wants to run a command or edit a file, or Claude has questions for you, the prompt lands in your notification shade as an approval Live Update, one question at a time, and your tap goes back to the session. While you are at your Mac, it stays in the terminal.
brew install mac-lucky/tap/pushward
pushward auth login
pushward agent install claude
pushward agent install codex
The PushWard companion app brings your Live Activities, notifications, and widgets to your wrist — paired to your iPhone, with no separate sign-in.
Ongoing activities sync to the Smart Stack and render in full — board, log, timeline, and the rest.
Browse, mark read, and clear past notifications, relayed from your iPhone.
Your Home Screen widgets, mirrored to the watch for a quick glance — and updatable live over the API.
Add a PushWard complication to your watch face and jump straight in.
On iPad, PushWard opens into a two-pane layout — your activities and notifications on the left, the detail on the right.On a tablet or an unfolded foldable the app moves to a navigation rail, and on a wide screen it puts the list next to the detail.
Unfold it to see every activity and its details side by side. Activities, Widgets and Notifications put the list beside the detail, and folding or unfolding keeps what you had open, sheets and typed text included.
List and detail side by side, so you never lose your place.In landscape the list and the detail sit side by side, so you never lose your place.
The layout adapts to any orientation, including Pro Max landscape.On a tablet or an unfolded foldable, the app's sections move to a rail along the edge.
The same account, activities, and history across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.Your account, activities and history on every Android phone and tablet you sign in on, and on your iPhone too when you use Sign in with Apple.
The Android app is one more client for the PushWard you may already use on iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Updates go to every device signed in to your account, iPhone and Android alike. The relay, the bridges, Home Assistant, the CLI and the GitHub Action need no changes.
Use Sign in with Apple to open the account you made on your iPhone, or start a new one with Google. No passwords either way.
Already subscribed on iPhone? Use Sign in with Apple on Android, with the same Apple ID, and the plan works there too. New plans on Android go through Google Play.
PushWard collects only what it needs and nothing more. No analytics. No tracking. No data sales.
No third-party analytics, ad networks, or tracking scripts. Your usage data stays private.
Sign in with Apple only. We never require your email or a password to use PushWard.Sign in with Apple or Google, never a password. Choose Sign in with Apple and we never require your email; a Google sign-in shares it.
API tokens are stored as SHA-256 hashes. Plaintext tokens never touch our database.
Activities automatically clean up via configurable TTLs. No stale data lingers on our servers.
All communication uses HTTPS/TLS. Push notifications travel through Apple's encrypted APNs channel.All communication uses HTTPS/TLS. Push notifications travel through Google's encrypted Firebase Cloud Messaging channel.
Delete your account and all associated data instantly from the app. No hoops, no waiting periods.
Generous free tier, simple annual plans, and a one-time lifetime option.
Everything in PushWard Plan, shared across:
Sold on the App Store only
Everything in PushWard Plan, plus:
For ops, on-call and dev teams. Every member joins with their own PushWard account.
Everything you need to know about sending iOS Live Activities over HTTP.
The iOS Live Activity API is how PushWard turns an HTTP request into a Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. You send a small JSON payload to the REST API with your integration key, and PushWard delivers it through Apple Push Notification service - no ActivityKit code, no Xcode, and no app of your own. The Live Activities page walks through it end to end.
No. Install the PushWard app on your iPhone or Android phone, create an integration key, and send HTTP requests to the REST API. There are no APNs certificates, no Firebase project, no Xcode and no store review on your side - PushWard handles delivery through Apple Push Notification service and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
Yes. The PushWard app is on Google Play for Android 12 or later. Live Activities arrive as Android Live Updates, promoted to the top of the notification shade from Android 16 on, and notifications, home screen widgets, sharing and organizations work as on iPhone. The same API request reaches both platforms, and with Sign in with Apple one account covers both.
Send a POST request to the PushWard API with your integration key and a small JSON payload. It appears as a Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, or as a Live Update on Android, and you update or end it with follow-up requests. The getting-started guide walks through it with curl.
Anything that can make an HTTP request - Grafana alerts, Home Assistant automations, GitHub Actions, SABnzbd downloads, Bambu Lab prints, or your own scripts. Ready-made bridges and a hosted webhook relay cover the most common services.
There is a free tier to get started, plus yearly, family, and lifetime plans that raise the limits. Live Activities, Lock Screen widgets, notifications, and email all run through a single API.
All three deliver iOS Live Activities over HTTP, and only PushWard has an Android app, where the same request becomes a Live Update. PushWard also adds a permanent free tier, ten Live Activity templates with alarms, transactional email, critical alerts, a full widget API, a self-hostable relay with a universal webhook, and a broad set of open-source integrations. The comparison page lays out the full feature matrix.
Yes. With PushWard 1.19.0 or later, unfolding iPhone Duo puts the list beside the detail in Activities, Widgets and Notifications, as on iPad. Folding or unfolding keeps the item you had open, along with any open sheet or alert and the text you were typing.
Start sending Live Activity updates in minutes. No APNs certificates required.Start sending Live Updates in minutes. No Firebase project or server keys required.
