Growl Alternatives

Growl is described as 'Notification system for Mac OS X, it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications' and is a popular app in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to Growl for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Growl alternative is Snarl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Growl are Growl for Windows, Zephyr Notification Service, notify.uno and Notify OSD.

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  1. Snarl icon
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    Snarl is a notification system for Windows. It provides a standard, simple way for application to notify you, the end user, of important events.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Growl for Windows is a Windows-compatible version of Growl , a notification system for Mac OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. An institutional/enterprise-scale distributed real-time messaging and notification system. Zephyr allows users to send messages to other users or to groups of

    3 Zephyr Notification Service alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. notify.uno icon
     1 like

    Get notified when your commands are done.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Notify OSD icon
     7 likes

    Canonicals on-screen-display notification agent, implementing the freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification with semi-transparent click-through bubbles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Specto icon
     5 likes

    Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger notifications. For example, Specto can watch a website for updates (or a syndication feed, or an image, etc)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Toasty icon
     Like

    Toasty lets you receive push notifications on your Windows Phone 7 device while you are on the go. Some of the key features are:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows Phone
     
  8. Notifo icon
     3 likes

    Notifo is a mobile notifications platform empowering developers to build their own services with a scalable and reliable notifications API. The Notifo API is a simple and affordable way to add notifications to any web app or project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  9. Notica icon
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    Notica lets you send browser notifications from your terminal to your desktop or phone. No installation or registration is required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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