NotificationAPI Blog - Developer Guides & Product Updates

Sep 10, 2025

Flutter Push Notifications: iOS, Android, Web (Part 2: iOS)

Learn how to implement push notifications in your Flutter iOS app using NotificationAPI and Apple Push Notification service (APNs). Practical, step-by-step guide based on a real device walkthrough.

14 min read

Aug 29, 2025

Announcing: Notification Insights V2 with Unified Analytics Across Channels & Environments

Insights V2 adds time-series charts across channels and environments for improved analytics and deeper breakdowns.

3 min read

Jul 11, 2025

Fix awstrack Links Blocking SES Email Notifications (2025)

This article covers how to fix tracking links, pixels, and image content from AWS SES emails being blocked by corporate firewalls and ad blockers.

6 min read

Jul 10, 2025

Announcing: Email Suppression Management

Take full control of your email suppression lists.

2 min read

Jul 8, 2025

Announcing: Flutter SDK for Mobile Push Notifications

Our new Flutter SDK makes it easy to send mobile push notifications to your Flutter applications with just a few lines of code.

3 min read

Jul 7, 2025

SOC2 Type II Compliance

NotificationAPI is now SOC2 Type II certified with a new Trust Center showcasing our security posture and compliance reports.

3 min read

Jul 6, 2025

Send Notification Content Without Templates

You can now send notifications without designing and using templates, by directly passing content in your API calls.

3 min read

Jun 5, 2025

Flutter Push Notifications: iOS, Android, Web (Part 1: Android)

Learn how to implement push notifications in your Flutter Android app using NotificationAPI and Firebase Cloud Messaging. Step-by-step tutorial with code examples.

12 min read

Jun 1, 2025

Twilio Alternatives for SMS Messaging in United States (2025)

Comprehensive comparison of top Twilio alternatives for US developers including NotificationAPI, MessageBird, and Plivo. Compare A2P 10DLC compliance, US carrier costs, and developer experience.

12 min read

May 29, 2025

Push Notification APIs Compared for Developers (June 2025)

A comprehensive technical comparison of leading push notification services including OneSignal, NotificationAPI, Firebase, and Airship, focusing on developer experience, pricing, features, and scalability.

14 min read

May 28, 2025

Easy and Cost-Effective Transactional Email APIs Compared (2025)

A comprehensive technical comparison of leading transactional email services including NotificationAPI, SendGrid, Resend, Amazon SES, Postmark, and Mailgun, focusing on developer experience, pricing, and features.

12 min read

May 27, 2025

Free and Paid SMS Notification APIs for US & Canadian Developers (2025)

A comprehensive technical comparison of leading SMS notification APIs including NotificationAPI, Twilio, MessageBird, and Plivo, focusing on developer experience, pricing, and features for US & Canadian users.

15 min read

May 22, 2025

Java: Send SMS and Email Notifications with NotificationAPI

Learn how to send SMS and email notifications in your Java application using NotificationAPI. Includes setup, code samples, and security best practices.

8 min read

May 9, 2025

Lovable: Send SMS and Email Notifications from Lovable.dev

Learn how to implement secure SMS and email notifications in your Lovable.dev application using NotificationAPI and Supabase edge functions.

8 min read

May 4, 2025

Announcing Slack Notifications Beta

Send notifications directly to your users' Slack workspaces with our new native Slack integration, now available in beta.

3 min read

May 3, 2025

Introducing Industry-Leading SMS Pricing

NotificationAPI now offers more competitive SMS pricing than Twilio's rates while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability for your critical notifications.

2 min read

May 2, 2025

Improved Notification Logs V2 Interface

We've completely rebuilt our logs interface from the ground up for blazing fast performance and improved usability.

8 min read

May 1, 2025

Introducing Email Open & Click Tracking

Track email opens and link clicks directly in NotificationAPI logs for better engagement analytics and deliverability insights.

5 min read

Mar 11, 2025

Email Deliverability Best Practices | A Developer's Guide to Avoiding the Spam Folder

A technical guide designed for software developers, including technical requirements and best practices ensuring product-to-user emails reach the inbox.

6 min read

Mar 10, 2025

NotificationAPI Joins NVIDIA Startup Program

We've been accepted into the NVIDIA startup program. This gives us access to AI expertise and resources that will help us improve our notification system faster.

3 min read

Feb 21, 2025

Auth.js Email 2FA Implementation Guide | Code samples (2025)

This guide shows you how to implement email-based 2FA that's maintainable and secure.

9 min read

Feb 19, 2025

Auth.js Magic Link: Custom Email Provider + Code Samples (2025)

Learn how to use a custom email provider for sending Auth.js magic link emails. Step by step guide with code examples for Node.js, Next.js and TypeScript.

8 min read

Feb 11, 2025

Send Custom Notifications from Supabase - With Example (2025)

Send custom Email, SMS, In-App and other types of notifications from Supabase with one library. Including code example using TypeScript and Supabase Edge Functions.

12 min read

Feb 4, 2025

Courier Alternatives - Top 3 Competitors (With Comparisons)

In this article, we discuss three respectable alternatives to Courier as your 3rd party notification service to weigh against, along with a comparison table.

15 min read

Feb 4, 2025

Knock Alternative: NotificationAPI - In-Depth Comparison (2025)

NotificationAPI is a Knock alternative, with many differences in how they manage third-parties, notification workflows, pricing, and support. Learn more here!

5 min read

Feb 4, 2025

Knock Alternatives - Top 3 Competitors (With Comparisons)

In this article, we discuss Knock's notification features & shortcomings and provide three respectable alternatives with comparisons.

15 min read

Jan 30, 2025

A2P 10DLC Registration: The Ultimate Developer's Guide (2025)

A practical guide to A2P 10DLC for developers at SaaS or startup companies wanting to send SMS to US. Step-by-step instructions and Twilio setup included.

20 min read

Jan 23, 2025

Announcing: Notification Logs v2

Introducing the revamped Notification Logs feature on NotificationAPI: Better tracking, faster searches, and richer data for teams that want to debug notifications.

4 min read

Jan 23, 2025

Introducing: NotificationAPI's European Data Center

NotificationAPI now supports an EU region, based out of Frankfurt, ensuring better performance and data residency compliance for our European customers and users.

2 min read

Jan 23, 2025

React 19 Support

Our React SDK now supports React 19, Next.js 15, and any framework powered by React 19, allowing you to integrate in-app notifications to your front-end with ease.

2 min read

Dec 11, 2024

Introducing Notification Events Webhook API

We are excited to roll out our Notification Events Webhook. This feature calls your APIs with important notification events, such as Delivery or Click.

2 min read

Dec 3, 2024

Announcing Auth0 Email and SMS Partnership

We are excited to announce our partnership with Auth0 to bring developers using Auth0 the ability to fully customize their authentication Emails and SMS templates.

2 min read

Nov 20, 2024

Announcing Web Push Support in React SDK

Web Push or Browser Push Notifications are now supported in our latest React SDK version. Previously, they were only supported in the Vanilla JavaScript library.

3 min read

Aug 10, 2024

Courier Alternative: NotificationAPI - In-Depth Comparison (2024)

NotificationAPI is a Courier alternative, with many differences in notification features, pricing, support, and more. Read more here!

8 min read

Aug 10, 2024

Hidden Scalability Bottlenecks In User Notifications

This article covers the not-so-obvious bottlenecks that cause scalability issues in the Notification Service of your software, along with easy-to-implement remedies.

10 min read

Aug 10, 2024

MagicBell Alternative: NotificationAPI - In-Depth Comparison (2024)

NotificationAPI is a MagicBell alternative, with many differences in pricing, email capabilities, and their smart workflow capabilities. Read more here!

8 min read

Jul 25, 2024

Building a Notification Service: Top Technical Mistakes

Sending product-to-user notifications looks easy. But this blog post lists software teams' critical technical mistakes when implementing their notification service.

12 min read

Jul 25, 2024

Notification Service Design | The Ultimate Guide with Diagrams

The essentials for designing a full-featured Notification System to send product-to-user notifications at scale for less. Compatible with AWS, Azure, and GCP.

22 min read

Jul 25, 2024

Serverless Notification Service Design in AWS - with diagrams

In this article, we design a fully Serverless Notification Service using AWS to send product-to-user notifications. Fully scalable, extensible, with minimal cost.

12 min read

Jul 25, 2024

Top Non-Technical Mistakes With Your Notification Service

This article discusses the common mistakes that engineers make when building their own notification service; Mistakes that are easy to resolve with a little help.

12 min read

Jul 25, 2024

Ultimate Guide on Notification Services - A Technical Overview (2024)

Do you need a 3rd-party notification service? In this article, we review the challenges of a typical notification project and review the viable solutions.

15 min read

Jul 23, 2024

Announcing: Logs API

NotificationAPI’s new Logs API grants developers full access to their notification system’s logs & data.

2 min read

Jul 23, 2024

Developers Guide to Dark Mode Email Design

We discuss steps for developers to create and improve email templates for dark mode in their notification service.

15 min read

Jul 17, 2024

Announcing: Core Vanilla JS

NotificationAPI’s new Core Vanilla JS library provides Headless UI features for developers looking to design their own UI in their notification system.

2 min read

Jul 17, 2024

Announcing: In-App Digest

We discuss steps for developers to create and improve email templates for dark mode in their notification service.

2 min read

Jul 10, 2024

Announcing: In-App Replies

The latest update from NotificationAPI allows developers to enable replies directly within their in-app notification system through the front-end SDK.

2 min read

Jul 3, 2024

NotificationAPI Alternatives

Learn about NotificationAPI alternatives and how they compare.

15 min read

Jul 2, 2024

Announcing: React SDK

NotificationAPI’s new React SDK release grants developers more tools for designing their ideal notification service and experience.

2 min read

Jun 16, 2024

Best Practices for Your Notification System

We discuss the best practices to include in your notification system to improve effectiveness and scalability.

6 min read

Jun 12, 2024

Collision 2024

When & where to find NotificationAPI at Collision 2024

2 min read

Jun 5, 2024

3 Ways to Send Emails with Supabase

We discuss and implement 3 solutions for including email notifications in your Supabase project using NodeJS.

20 min read

Jun 5, 2024

How North Star Payroll Manages Payrolls and more using NotificationAPI

We talked with North Star Payroll's technical project manager, Uzo Okonkwo about their platform's use of notifications and NotificationAPI's role as a solution

20 min read

May 12, 2024

4 Ways to Send Notifications to a Mobile Phone

We discuss 4 viable methods of including mobile users in your notification system, providing pros/cons & high-level table for a quick comparison.

8 min read

May 1, 2024

Announcing: User Dashboard

NotificationAPI's new user dashboard allows developers to manage and debug issues on a per-user basis, by providing user info from your notification service.

2 min read

Apr 23, 2024

How TeeBox assists golfers in finding their next course using NotificationAPI

We spoke with TeeBox founder, Kelly Gold to learn about TeeBox’s need for notifications and the impact of NotificationAPI as a solution.

2 min read

Apr 11, 2024

Announcing: API Documentation

NotificationAPI now has REST API documentation and Administrative API features in addition to SDKs, letting you manage your NotificationAPI account via our API.

2 min read

Apr 9, 2024

NotificationAPI vs. SendGrid - Implementing your Notification System

NotificationAPI delivers an intuitive all-in-one notification system, Whereas SendGrid specializes in a fully email-oriented service.

12 min read

Mar 25, 2024

Announcing Server-Side C# .NET SDK

NotificationAPI now officially supports a C# .NET library. This library is available on NuGet and thoroughly documented on our server SDK documentation website.

2 min read

Mar 20, 2024

Announcing: Front-End SDK Internationalization

Our front-end SDK now supports displaying the in-app notifications widget and notification preferences widget in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English.

2 min read

Mar 10, 2024

Announcing: Environment Controls

NotificationAPI's environments feature allows developers to create and test notifications in a muted environment, where no message leaves the notification service.

2 min read

Mar 10, 2024

Announcing: Notification Scheduling

Notification scheduling is built into NotificationAPI and replaces the cron, databases or other systems you have in place to send notifications at future dates.

2 min read

Feb 26, 2024

Interview: Adopting a Notification Service at a Milk Moovement

Jacob Brown, development team lead at Milk Moovement, joined us to talk about switching from their own code to using NotificationAPI to send notifications.

21 min read

Feb 18, 2024

NotificationAPI vs. Twilio - Building a Product Notification System

NotificationAPI uses Twilio under the hood but expands to Email, In-App, and other features for software teams that want an all-in-one notification service.

15 min read

Feb 9, 2024

How SongFlow helps songwriters stay in sync using NotificationAPI

We spoke with Songflow’s founder about their notification needs in a collaboration tool, why they picked NotificationAPI, the integration experience and the results.

15 min read

Feb 5, 2024

The Developer's Guide to Google Bulk Sender Requirements

A step-by-step technical guide for developers and SaaS companies that want their email notifications to comply with Google's and Yahoo's new bulk sender policies.

17 min read

Jan 17, 2024

Announcing: Batching and Digest

With the Batching & Digest feature, you can batch similar notifications together or build digest notifications without additional custom code or infrastructure.

4 min read

Jan 3, 2024

Introducing Notification Throttling

NotificationAPI helps de-risk your notifications by letting you configure the number of times a notification is allowed per each user within a timeframe.

4 min read

Jun 14, 2023

Announcing: Mobile Push Notifications

Save engineering time by using NotificationAPI to implement your push notifications, while giving your non-technical team access to design, manage and monitor them.

4 min read

Jun 13, 2023

Introducing: Web Push Notifications

NotificationAPI adds Browser Web Push support to its list of channels. Simply update to the latest version of the front-end SDK and start designing in our dashboard.

2 min read

May 30, 2023

Welcoming Devin Marsh

NotificationAPI is thrilled to announce the addition of Devin Marsh, back-end software engineer, to its team to help improve our product-to-user notification service

2 min read

May 18, 2023

Announcing: Duplicate Notification Prevention (Deduplication)

With NotificationAPI's Deduplication, you can rest assured that human error or retrying failed worker jobs will not generate repeat notifications for your end-users.

2 min read

Apr 12, 2023

Announcing: Canada Only Region

NotificationAPI is now implemented in a Canada-only region where no log or user data will leave Canada, helping you comply with Canada's data residency laws.

2 min read

Apr 12, 2023

Introducing Multi-Environment Support

When using NotificationAPI as your notification service, you can now differentiate between production and staging API keys, logs, and all your end-user information.

2 min read

Aug 31, 2022

Announcing: Insights

With NotificationAPI Insights, teams get high-level reports and an understanding of what notifications they are sending, where they go, and what happens to them.

2 min read

Jun 24, 2022

Announcing: No-Code Unsubscribe Links

Unsubscribe Links allows you to append an unsubscribe link to any of your notifications and improve your notifications user experience without writing any code.

2 min read

Jun 9, 2022

Announcing Logs: In-Depth and Searchable History of All Notifications

With Logs, you can search and review all your outgoing notifications in order to address customer tickets or debug software issues.

3 min read

Jun 8, 2022

How to prevent AWS SES review and suspension

Developers may find their AWS SES account banned even if they never sent any spam. Follow these best practices to prevent your SES from being reviewed and suspended.

18 min read

Jun 6, 2022

Milk Moovement revamped their notifications, saving weeks of dev time

Learn how Milk Moovement's team leveraged NotificationAPI's notification service to simplify their infrastructure and save weeks of software development time.

15 min read