---
title: Introducing Echobell
date: 2025-03-30
description: "Echobell is a privacy-first instant alert app for iOS. Send webhook or email triggers to channels and receive normal, time-sensitive, or call-style notifications on your device."
author: Nooc
authorAvatarLink: /images/avatars/nooc.webp
authorLink: https://nooc.me
---

# 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](/en/features/webhooks):** 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](/en/features/email-triggers):** 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](/en/focus-mode-alerts):** Breaks through Focus modes
- **[Calling](/en/features/call-notifications):** 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](/en/docs/developer/grafana), [Prometheus](/en/docs/developer/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

1. Download Echobell from the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743597198?pt=128151925&ct=blog-echobell-is-here-en&mt=8)
2. Create an account (email or Sign in with Apple)
3. Create a channel and set a title/body template
4. Add a webhook or email trigger
5. Send a test notification

## Related pages

- [Pushover alternative](/en/pushover-alternative)
- [ntfy alternative](/en/ntfy-alternative)
- [Server down phone call alerts](/en/server-down-phone-call-alerts)
- [App Store Connect review notifications](/en/app-store-connect-review-notifications)
- [How to bypass iOS Focus Mode for critical alerts](/en/blog/how-to-bypass-ios-focus-mode-for-critical-alerts)