Introducing Echobell

Echobell is a privacy-first notification app for iOS that receives triggers from webhooks or email and delivers them to your device as normal, time-sensitive, or call-style alerts. You organize alerts into channels, shape content with templates, and choose the urgency level per channel.

Key Features

Channels

Channels are the core unit. Each one has:

A name and color for quick identification
Title and body templates with variables (e.g. {{server}}, {{message}}, {{timestamp}})
A webhook URL or dedicated email address as its trigger
A shareable subscription link so teammates can subscribe

Webhook and email triggers

Webhook notifications: Call your channel's unique URL with GET or POST. Echobell notifies all subscribers. Works well for server monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, IoT status updates, and order notifications.

Email-to-notification: Send or forward an email to the channel address to trigger alerts — no code required. Useful for forwarding important emails, integrating with legacy systems, or building notification flows without writing code.

Templates and variables

Title: {{server}} status alert
Body: {{message}} detected at {{timestamp}}

Pass variables in the webhook payload or query string. For email triggers, variables like from, subject, and text are available automatically.

Notification types

Normal (Active): Standard notifications for routine updates
Time Sensitive: Breaks through Focus modes
Calling: Rings like a phone call for critical incidents

Privacy

Accounts, channels, and subscriptions are stored server-side. Notification content and history stay on your devices.

Use cases

Developers: Server and uptime monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus), CI/CD and GitHub Actions alerts, production error reporting.

Traders: Price threshold alerts for stocks or crypto, signals via email forwarding.

Teams: One channel per project, teammates subscribe at their preferred urgency level.

Personal: Website down alerts, important email notifications, custom reminders.

Getting started

Download Echobell from the App Store
Create an account (email or Sign in with Apple)
Create a channel and set a title/body template
Add a webhook or email trigger
Send a test notification