- CategoryUtilities
- First releasedJuly 3, 2009
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerProwl Solutions LLC
- Bundle IDnet.weks.prowl
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueProwl 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, it's 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 homepage's "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 you're 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 Prowl's 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 don't 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
Chart History
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Growl is quickly becoming obsolete. Apps are quietly dumping it. I only have a single app that still uses it via a plugin. I’m just glad the server is still working at least. But in every other way this is abandonware.
I've been using Prowl for years. Very stable, easy to use. No brainer download if you want to receive any push notifications you want on your iPhone.
Needed a simple way to send notifications to my phone from my Arduino. With Prowl, I had it working in less than 5 minutes. Well worth a few bucks!
When opening first time to view an alert, the new alert is superimposed on the previous one (graphical draw issue). Closing and reopening fixes. If that's fixed, great app.
10 years(!!!!!!!) since the last update and Prowl is still dependable! My only wishlist item would be customizable icons honestly, none of Prowl’s other UI holdovers from yesteryear bother me at all. Reassuring to know this app will never have “Liquid Glass”. But choice of icons would be a great add!
Love this capability... wrote a Python script to push notifications from Raspberry pi projects to my phone, works great.
I use this to receive alerts from my home automation system(isy994i) and from a myriad of scripts running on servers I administer. I even have a couple of IoT projects that use it(Arduino, ESP8266). Easy to setup and use. (Dead. Simple. API.)
I use prowl to notify me about local air quality in realtime. It’s great! Apple ought to allow custom sounds for third party app notification. Would be perfect to have arbitrary number of types and user custom sound based on message contents. This change would allow very versatile notifications like voice announcing data inside message etc. Can select 5 different sounds from a preset list of 6. Defaults are solid, but would greatly benefit from even purchased ringtones being available.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.