PushWard

PushWard turns plain HTTP requests into iOS Live Activities. Bridge your backend services to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen — one API call starts an activity, another updates it.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Create an activity with a template and slug via the API
2. Update state and content with a simple PATCH request
3. The update lands on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island instantly

No APNs certificates to manage. No device tokens to track.

8 BUILT-IN TEMPLATES

• Generic — Track any progress with a customizable bar, state label, and countdown timer
• Countdown — Auto-managed timer with server-side warning and completion pushes
• Steps — CI/CD step indicator with matrix job support and stage tracking
• Alert — Severity-based alerts with deep links to dashboards and alert rules
• Gauge — Monitor values within a range with auto-calculated progress and min/max labels
• Timeline — Real-time sparkline chart with multi-series support, thresholds, and auto-scaling
• Board — A grid of up to four status tiles, each with a value, unit, icon, color, and trend arrow
• Log — A live, scrolling feed of events with timestamps and severity, newest first

20 READY-MADE INTEGRATIONS
Webhook relay (zero code, no server needed):
Grafana • ArgoCD • Radarr • Sonarr • Bazarr • Jellyfin • Paperless-ngx • Uptime Kuma • Gatus • Overseerr • Proxmox • Changedetection • Unmanic • Backrest

Self-hosted Docker bridges:
GitHub Actions • SABnzbd • Bambu Lab 3D Printer • Unraid NAS • Grafana (advanced)

Smart home:
Home Assistant via HACS — track any entity as a Live Activity

KEY FEATURES

• Apple Watch app — view your Live Activities and notification history on your wrist, with watch-face complications and Smart Stack support for all templates
• Made for iPad — a universal app with an adaptive two-pane layout and full landscape support
• Live Activity designer — build and push a Live Activity right from the app, no code required
• Siri & Shortcuts — send a notification or open your unread inbox hands-free
• Control Center controls — fire a widget webhook or open your inbox from Control Center
• Powerful search — search your entire notification and email history on device, and find any notification from Spotlight
• Critical Alerts — let your most urgent notifications break through silent mode and Focus
• Sign in with Apple — no passwords or email required
• Up to 5 concurrent Live Activities with priority-based smart eviction
• Activity sharing via share codes and universal links
• Push-to-Start — the server starts Live Activities on your device remotely
• Scoped integration keys with slug restrictions and rotation
• Custom accent, background, and text colors (named or hex)
• In-app notification inbox with per-source preferences
• Email delivery — send emails to your verified recipients and browse your sent history
• iCloud sync — your settings stay in sync across all your devices
• Interactive demo — try all templates without any setup
• Full account deletion — instantly, no hoops

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

• No analytics, ad networks, or tracking
• Sign in with Apple only — we never see your email
• API tokens stored as SHA-256 hashes
• Activities auto-clean via configurable TTLs
• All communication over HTTPS/TLS and encrypted APNs

PRICING
PushWard has a generous free tier — no credit card required:

• 500 push notifications and 250 Live Activity updates per month
• 3 registered devices and up to 5 concurrent Live Activities
• All templates and full REST API access

Upgrade any time for unlimited notifications and updates, Activity Sharing via share codes, and up to 10 registered devices:

• PushWard Plan — billed annually, with a 14-day free trial
• Family — billed annually, shared with up to 5 family members
• Founding — a one-time Lifetime purchase that never renews

Pricing is shown on the in-app paywall.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://pushward.app/privacy

PushWard 1.19.0 turns the countdown into Timer: it counts up as well as down, pauses, and can hide its ruler.

• Timer: the countdown template is now called Timer and can count up from a start time, so the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch and the Mac menu bar show how long something has been running - a nap, a workout, a focus session.
• Goals: a timer that counts up can have a goal. The ruler fills toward it, and once it is passed the clock turns orange and counts the overtime.
• Pause and resume: freeze a timer in either direction and carry on where it stopped. A paused countdown's alarm waits until it runs again.
• Hide the ruler: show just the name, the state and a big clock.
• The activity designer can create a timer that counts up, with its start time and an optional goal, and can turn the ruler off.
• iPhone Duo: unfolded, Activities, Widgets and Notifications show the list beside the detail, and folding or unfolding keeps what you had open, sheets included.
• Usage shows how many devices are signed in against your plan's limit.
• Your integration key stays hidden until Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and hides again when you leave the app.
• Deleting your account asks you to confirm with Sign in with Apple, so PushWard's access to your Apple ID is revoked as well.
• Notification list rows lead with the title and show the subtitle.

Fixed:

• Editing a timer in the designer without touching its clock resumed a paused timer, or restarted a countdown from now.
• After a "too many requests" reply the notification list showed an error and tried again right away. It now keeps your history on screen and waits before the next sync.
• Activities created in the designer started out ended, so no Live Activity appeared.
• Creating a Stat List widget failed.
• iPhone banners drawn with a source's name and icon left out the title and subtitle.
• Family Sharing members stayed on the free plan until they tapped Restore Purchases.
• Some languages used the wrong word for Priority and for incompatible changes in What's New.