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Install apprise with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman

Send notifications from the command-line to popular notification services. Version 1.12.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-05.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install apprise

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add apprise

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · apprise · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install apprise

Debian stable package indexes · apprise · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install apprise

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · apprise · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#apprise

nixpkgs package indexes · apprise · source: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S apprise

Arch Linux sync databases · apprise · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

overview

Package summary

Send notifications from the command-line to popular notification services

Commands and aliases

  • apprise

history

Project history and usage

Apprise is a Python notification library and CLI that sends messages to many notification services through one URL syntax. It wraps services such as Discord, Slack, Telegram, Gotify, email, SMS gateways, webhooks, and desktop notification systems behind one command and API.

Project history

PyPI records Apprise releases beginning with 0.0.1 in November 2017. The official README frames the project as a way for developers and operators to avoid writing one integration per notification provider.

The 1.0.0 release appeared on PyPI in August 2022, and current releases continue to add providers and service syntax while keeping the central model: notification targets are encoded as URLs and can be supplied directly, through config files, or through environment variables.

Adoption history

Apprise's adoption came from the automation and self-hosting world: backup scripts, monitoring jobs, CI tasks, download managers, and home-lab tools can send alerts through whatever notification service a user already has. Package availability across Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, Nix, and Ubuntu reflects that sysadmin-style use case.

Because Apprise is both a library and a CLI, it fits into Python applications as an embedded notification backend and into shell scripts as a standalone `apprise` command.

How it is used

The most direct CLI usage is to pass one or more notification URLs and a message body. More durable setups store URLs in Apprise config files, which the CLI searches by default, or point to explicit config locations with `--config`.

Apprise configuration files often contain provider tokens, webhook IDs, API keys, or passwords as part of service URLs. The project does not document a separate credentials file; secrets live in the notification URLs/configs users choose.

Why package nerds care

Apprise is package-manager-friendly glue: it turns dozens of optional API integrations into one dependency with a stable CLI surface. That makes it attractive to packagers and downstream tools that want broad notification support without vendoring service-specific clients.

The package is also a reminder that URL schemes can be a compact configuration language. For package nerds, Apprise's long service table is effectively a registry of notification transports encoded as CLI-friendly strings.

Timeline

  • 2017: PyPI records the first Apprise 0.0.1 release.
  • 2022: PyPI records Apprise 1.0.0.
  • 2026: PyPI records active 1.x releases, including 1.11.0.

Related projects

  • Apprise API is a companion service endpoint supported by Apprise URLs.
  • The project overlaps operationally with provider-specific CLIs and webhook senders for Slack, Discord, Telegram, Gotify, ntfy, email, and SMS services.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for apprise. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.apprise~/.apprise.conf~/.apprise.yml~/.apprise.yaml~/.config/apprise~/.config/apprise.conf~/.config/apprise.yml~/.config/apprise.yaml~/.apprise/apprise~/.apprise/apprise.conf~/.apprise/apprise.yml~/.apprise/apprise.yaml~/.config/apprise/apprise~/.config/apprise/apprise.conf~/.config/apprise/apprise.yml~/.config/apprise/apprise.yaml/etc/apprise/etc/apprise.yml/etc/apprise.yaml/etc/apprise/apprise/etc/apprise/apprise.conf/etc/apprise/apprise.yml/etc/apprise/apprise.yaml
Windows
%APPDATA%\Apprise\apprise%APPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.conf%APPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.yml%APPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.yaml%LOCALAPPDATA%\Apprise\apprise%LOCALAPPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.conf%LOCALAPPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.yml%LOCALAPPDATA%\Apprise\apprise.yaml%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise.conf%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise.yml%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Apprise\apprise.yaml%PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise%PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.conf%PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yml%PROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yaml%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.conf%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yml%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Apprise\apprise.yaml

executables

Installed executables

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apprisecliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.12.0
manager updated2026-07-05
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://pypi.org/project/apprise/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:apprise
Version1.12.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/apprise
Homepagehttps://pypi.org/project/apprise/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/caronc/apprise
Upstream docshttps://appriseit.com/
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ff/f7/95a52cda9355f32c5db9ef77bac18e85977472d29c555fafd825cf60c309/apprise-1.12.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-05T18:01:38Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciescertifi, libyaml, python@3.14
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameapprise
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

apprise 1.9.3-1

Push Notifications that work with just about every platform

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo apt install apprise
  • Section: misc
  • Architecture: all
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: apprise from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

apprise

nix profile install nixpkgs#apprise
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: apprise from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Ubuntu apt95%

apprise 1.7.2-1ubuntu1

Push Notifications that work with just about every platform

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo apt install apprise
  • Section: universe/misc
  • Architecture: all
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: apprise from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

apprise 1.11.0-r0

Push Notifications that work with just about every platform

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo apk add apprise
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: apprise
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apprise from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

apprise-doc 1.11.0-r0

Push Notifications that work with just about every platform (documentation)

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo apk add apprise-doc
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: apprise
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apprise-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

apprise-pyc 1.11.0-r0

Precompiled Python bytecode for apprise

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo apk add apprise-pyc
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: apprise
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apprise-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

apprise 1.11.0-2.fc45

Notify messaging platforms from the command line

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo dnf install apprise
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: python-apprise
  • 4 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: apprise from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

apprise 1.10.0-1

Push Notifications that work with just about every platform

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

sudo pacman -S apprise
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: any
  • 5 dependencies
  • 3 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Apprise
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: apprise from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment