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Forward Notification Center alerts across your Mac apps to your iPhone.

A startup from France, founded by Antoine Berton.

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NotiFerry is a native macOS menu bar utility (macOS 13 Ventura or later) that watches the local macOS Notification Center store and forwards newly delivered desktop notifications to your iPhone through the free ntfy app (ntfy.sh or your own self-hosted ntfy server).

Key capabilities

  • App-wide macOS Notification Center capture: Works automatically with any Mac app that posts to Notification Center — including Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Xcode, Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Warp, Docker, Slack, and Calendar — without wrapping every command in a custom script or webhook.
  • Per-app routing & filtering: Set individual Mac apps to Enabled, Muted, or Excluded from the dashboard or menu bar popover.
  • Privacy & redaction modes: Choose Title + Body, App + Title Only, or App Name Only so sensitive message previews never leave your Mac when you only want an arrival ping.
  • Burst grouping & quiet hours: Collapses rapid notification bursts into a single summary alert and respects scheduled quiet hours.
  • Direct local architecture: Reads the local Notification Center SQLite database read-only on your Mac and publishes directly over HTTPS to your chosen ntfy server using Keychain-stored Bearer token or Basic authentication. There is no NotiFerry cloud account or third-party relay.
  • Pay-once license: Includes a 7-day free trial followed by a €9.99 one-time personal license covering up to 2 Macs (brew install --cask n2ctech/tap/notiferry or direct signed & notarized DMG).

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Push Notifications Productivity Mac Utilities Web Push Notifications Mobile Push Messaging Developer Tools Tech

Screenshots and images

  • Landing page //
    2026-10-30
  • NotiFerry menu bar popover and dashboard //
    2026-11-02
  • NotiFerry General & Privacy settings //
    2026-11-02
  • macOS menu bar status item and popover //
    2026-11-02
  • NotiFerry on macOS forwarding alerts to ntfy on iPhone //
    2026-11-06
  • Forwarded NotiFerry notifications in the free ntfy iPhone app with burst folding //
    2026-11-06

Features & Specs

  1. Push Notifications

    Forwards newly delivered macOS Notification Center alerts from any Mac app to iPhone via ntfy

  2. Per-App Rules

    Enable, mute, or exclude individual macOS apps from the menu bar or dashboard

  3. Privacy Controls

    Redaction modes (Title + Body, App + Title Only, or App Name Only) and local-only SQLite reading

  4. Self-Hosting Support

    Supports ntfy.sh or self-hosted ntfy servers with Keychain-stored Bearer token or Basic auth

  5. Quiet Hours & Burst Grouping

    Collapses rapid notification bursts and pauses forwarding during scheduled quiet hours

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Questions & Answers

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  1. What makes NotiFerry unique?

    Unlike command-line wrappers or webhook scripts that only notify you when you remember to instrument a specific command, NotiFerry watches the local macOS Notification Center store and forwards newly delivered desktop notifications across all your Mac apps to your iPhone via ntfy (ntfy.sh or your own self-hosted ntfy server) with per-app rules, quiet hours, burst grouping, and local privacy redaction.

  2. Why should a person choose NotiFerry over its competitors?

    • Works with existing Mac apps out of the box: Captures native macOS Notification Center alerts from Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Xcode, Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Docker, Slack, and Calendar without writing per-tool webhook glue.
    • Bring your own ntfy server: Publishes directly from your Mac over HTTPS to ntfy.sh or a self-hosted ntfy instance using Keychain-stored Bearer token or Basic authentication, with no proprietary NotiFerry cloud relay.
    • Granular privacy & noise control: Per-app Enable/Mute/Exclude controls, burst grouping, quiet hours, and content redaction (Title + Body, App + Title Only, or App Name Only).
    • Pay-once pricing: 7-day free trial followed by a €9.99 one-time personal license for up to 2 Macs (no recurring subscription).

  3. How would you describe the primary audience of NotiFerry?

    macOS developers, engineers, and power users who run long-running builds, AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), Xcode compilations, terminal jobs, or Mac-only desktop apps and want reliable alerts on their iPhone or Apple Watch when they step away from their desk.

  4. What's the story behind NotiFerry?

    I built NotiFerry because macOS has no built-in way to mirror arbitrary desktop Notification Center alerts to an iPhone when you step away from your Mac, and wrapping every terminal command or IDE task in a custom curl script quickly breaks down across GUI apps like Xcode, Cursor, and background daemons. Pairing a native macOS menu bar watcher with the open ntfy ecosystem gives Mac users instant iPhone and Apple Watch delivery without a middleman cloud service.

  5. Which are the primary technologies used for building NotiFerry?

    • Swift & SwiftUI / AppKit for the native macOS menu bar application (macOS 13 Ventura and later)
    • SQLite (read-only access to the local macOS Notification Center database) and macOS Keychain for credentials
    • HTTPS / ntfy protocol (ntfy.sh and self-hosted ntfy servers) for push delivery to iPhone and Apple Watch
    • Sparkle and Homebrew Cask (n2ctech/tap/notiferry) for signed, notarized updates and installation

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