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24 alternatives to Pusher Channels

Build scalable realtime infrastructure for your apps

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pusher Channels launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Pusher Push Notifications API▲441

   Send push notifications programmatically at scale

   2016 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Pusher Beams▲165

   Hosted API for devs to deliver transactional notifications

   2018 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   PushRadar▲95

   Real time notifications for your apps

   2017 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Pusher Chatkit▲114

   Developer-driven chat done simply.

   2017 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   In-App Notification Center by SuprSend▲233

   Pre-built real-time notification center for your app & web

   2024 · suprsend.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   SuprSend▲406

   We as developers, build and maintain many services in code, one of them being notification service. In the last 5-7 years, API-to-user communications have exploded across SMS, email, chat apps, mobile, and web push. As a consequence, notification service handling them has become quite complex. Developers spend time building integrations with multiple providers, create templates for each channel, managing scheduling and routing based on preferences, maintaining queues to deliver notifications on time while managing scale. Besides, product teams have poor visibility on notifications as…

   2022 · suprsend.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Pusha▲135

   Send push notifications from your desktop or web application

   2018 · haaretz.co.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Knock▲342

   Notification infrastructure for developers

   2022 · knock.app · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Pushpin▲79

   Building and scaling realtime APIs made easy

   2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Pusher▲4

    Write less code, ship your app faster & scale massively.

    2020 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Stream Chat▲327

    Build, code and ship in app messaging in a few hours

    2019 · getstream.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    PushPrime▲211

    Supercharge your website with push notifications

    2017 · business2community.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Hooks Chats▲117

    Push notifications meet real time conversations

    2016 · gethooksapp.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Intercom Real-Time▲510

    Have live conversations with users inside your apps

    2015 · fin.ai · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Stream 2.0▲304

    API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds

    2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Slack RTM API▲112

    Slack's Real Time Messaging API

    2015 · docs.slack.dev · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Parse Push ▲147

    Creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications

    2014 · parseplatform.org · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Hyperlink▲266

    Get push notifications when your links get clicked

    2019 · usehyperlink.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Pusher▲81

    Create a chat app in 5min

    2014 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Push▲86

    Notifications made for you.

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Push Chat▲113

    Your decentralized, uncensorable & web3-native chat solution

    2023 · app.push.org · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Push.js▲236

    Cross-browser solution for JavaScript desktop notifications

    2016 · pushjs.org · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Ably Push Notifications▲69

    Send native push notifications with a simple unified API

    2019 · ably.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Layer Platform API▲202

    Build rich application-to-user messaging

    2015 · its alternatives →

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