Prowl: Easy Push Notifications app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 5808 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Prowl Solutions LLC
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.5.3, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 03 Jul 2009
App size: 2.8 Mb

Prowl is an easy push notifications client iOS. Push to your device notifications from your Mac or Windows computer, or from a multitude of apps and services. Easily integrate the Prowl API into your applications.

A list of supported apps/services: http://prowlapp.com/apps.php

The only limit of what the service can do is your imagination.

REQUIREMENTS
To receive notifications from your computer, you need the latest:
• Growl on your Mac @ growl.info, or
• Growl for Windows @ growlforwindows.com, or
• Snarl on Windows @ fullphat.net, or
• Any program or web service using the public API.

THE CRITICS
"I was extremely impressed with Prowl and the elegance with which I was able to view Growl notifications on my iPhone.”
—Aron Trimble, TUAW

"[A] powerful tool to connect your Mac with your iPhone, seamlessly over the air.
—Federico Viticci, MacStories

"Great idea. This opens up iPhone push notifications for anything you can think of.”
—John Gruber, Daring Fireball

"Probably the best $3 I’ve ever spent in the App Store.”
—Darrell Etherington, The Apple Blog

FEATURES
• Push Notifications—When a Growl notification pops up on your computer, its sent to Prowl and displayed on your iOS device within seconds.

• Sweet application support—Prowl has support from a bunch of cool applications and services. Check out the full list at http://prowlapp.com/apps.php

• Redirections—Launch a different application when you open a push notification. For example, a notification from your desktop Twitter client can relaunch into your favorite mobile client. You can even pick custom URLs to launch, so you can go anywhere!

• Email to push—Use your Prowl email address (from the Prowl homepages "API keys" tab) to get email delivery right on your device. Generate as many email addresses as you need!

• An amazing API—Use the Prowl API with a multitude of libraries in various programming languages. You can send notifications from anything that can talk to the internet, and do some fun things along with it.

• Quiet Hours—During the hours you specify, only the badge numbers are updated. No matter the source. Instead of getting a noisy alert, messages are quietly delivered. You can allow emergency-priority items to break quiet hours.

• Do Not Disturb—Keep the application quiet whenever youre busy, or when you need a break from a constant alert. Controllable from within the application.

• Control—Open the edit view to get a quick glance at your notifications, and do away with pesky ones. Quickly copy, email or SMS a notification directly from Prowl (depending on device and iOS version).

• Browse quickly—Use Prowls internal browser to quickly open links from a notification without having to open Safari.

• History—Up to 10 days of notifications are kept on the server. You can delete notifications that you dont want to see any more, or remove all of your history.

• Customized notifications—Only events you want are sent to Prowl. You can specify all kinds of conditions from the Prowl plugin for Growl.

• Send any message to your device—From the Prowl website, you can send any text to your device: links and phone numbers are automatically linked, so you can easily navigate around without having to worry about typos. From the website or API, you can also automatically redirect to the attached URL.

SETUP
Prowl is built into Growl 2.0. For earlier versions: http://prowlapp.com/installation.php — for Mac.
http://growlforwindows.com — for Windows.

SUPPORT
@prowlapp on Twitter
http://prowlapp.com/support.php

Pros and cons of Prowl: Easy Push Notifications app for iPhone and iPad

Prowl: Easy Push Notifications app good for

This nifty little utility opens a whole range of possibilities for keeping an eye on your mac. Setup could be easier (Growl should be a standard part of OSX :-) ), the display of the list of received notifications is rather crude (will probably be improved in future versions), but the service gained is huge.
Parfaite integration avec homeseer et les notifications push Un bijou Very well software who is integrate wirh homesser for push notification A jewel
Seamless integration... Just perfect to track my servers activities. An excellent productivity tool !!!
This application would be better if we could choose our own custom sounds from iOS Sound settings.
The app doesnt auto-refresh on start with iOS 9. May you fix it please ?
I was informed by the developer that the update is pending release!

Some bad moments

This app worked fine for years, but now has some errors. No support anymore, the developer doesnt answer. Poor. Dont buy it.
For a paid app, I expected better. Unlike most iOS apps, which look polished, this looks like a cheap Blackberry app from 5 years ago. The websites instructions for how to set up Prowl on your computer were different than what the actual program expected. For example, the instructions said to enter your username and password, but the program wanted an API. I kept getting errors when I entered my API from the website. After reading in the FAQ that you need to open the app once per week or Apple might restrict further notices, I lost interest in contacting the developer for help. I regret buying this app.
It seems the developers of this app have given up supporting it. Last update was from almost two years ago. Interface is horribly dated looking.
These guys are very poor at supporting this app. Without support this app is a complete waste of money!Don’t buy!!!!!!
Not very often do you find an app that does what it says "easily". I think its better for a developer to assume the person using it has no or some knowledge of computers but, not assume that the person knows everything. In theory this is a great app but, on the surface its convaluted mess. 1. There should be a simple server you can download on your Mac/PC to get notifications sent to your iPhone and, not have to pay for a seperate app. 2. The whole API system is not simple. I know of APIs but, dont have the clearest grasp of what it actually is. So, forcing someone to enter API keys is not the best way to go about things. 3. If you want to use it with your browser thats another download.
Would duplicate push notifications, started becoming unreliable. I recommend the app Pushover instead.

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