Appgain is an omnichannel messaging and mobile marketing automation platform, originally out of the MENA region, that lets marketers acquire, engage, and retain mobile and web users across push notifications, in-app messaging, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and web push from a single cloud. Its REST API and mobile SDKs power smart deep links, micro landing pages, behavior-triggered automation journeys, a customer data platform (CDP) with real-time event logging and purchase tracking, and multi-channel campaign delivery, with marketplace apps for Shopify, Zid, and Salla and no-code integrations via Zapier and n8n. The backend is built on the open-source Parse Server stack, and first-party SDKs cover Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, Cordova/Ionic, and web. Since 2026 the company positions itself as an "AI Workforce Platform" for MENA businesses, adding AI agent products - a RAG-powered customer bot, AI call intelligence with Arabic and English transcription, a visual bot builder, and a unified inbox - on top of the messaging core. The only machine-readable contract Appgain publishes is a public Postman collection served from its own apidocs subdomain; there is no OpenAPI.
Appgain publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: OmniChannel Messaging API, Notify API, and Automator API. Tagged areas include Company, Mobile Marketing, Marketing Automation, Omnichannel Messaging, and Push Notifications.
The Appgain catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Appgain’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, changelog, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 26 more developer resources.
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REST API for sending multi-channel campaigns (rich push notifications, email, SMS, web push), creating smart deep links, managing a media library, and logging user events/purcha...
The messaging send service. A single POST /{projectId}/send endpoint whose channel is selected by the top-level body key (appPush, email, SMS, webPush, WHATSAPP, UOWHATSAPP), pl...
The marketing-automation service. Fires and cancels dashboard-configured automation journeys at a named trigger point, for one user or a batch of users via the v2 form. Authenti...
aid: appgain
name: Appgain
description: Appgain is an omnichannel messaging and mobile marketing automation platform, originally out of the MENA region,
that lets marketers acquire, engage, and retain mobile and web users across push notifications, in-app messaging, email,
SMS, WhatsApp, and web push from a single cloud. Its REST API and mobile SDKs power smart deep links, micro landing pages,
behavior-triggered automation journeys, a customer data platform (CDP) with real-time event logging and purchase tracking,
and multi-channel campaign delivery, with marketplace apps for Shopify, Zid, and Salla and no-code integrations via Zapier
and n8n. The backend is built on the open-source Parse Server stack, and first-party SDKs cover Android, iOS, Flutter, React
Native, Cordova/Ionic, and web. Since 2026 the company positions itself as an "AI Workforce Platform" for MENA businesses,
adding AI agent products - a RAG-powered customer bot, AI call intelligence with Arabic and English transcription, a visual
bot builder, and a unified inbox - on top of the messaging core. The only machine-readable contract Appgain publishes is
a public Postman collection served from its own apidocs subdomain; there is no OpenAPI.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/appgain/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
pricing: contact-sales
onboarding: self-serve
trial: true
trial_days: 14
credit_card_required: false
free_tier: true
try_now: true
try_now_note: https://appgain.io/free-tools - Push Notification Lab (APNS/FCM testers, no account required)
public: false
public_note: API keys are issued per project from the dashboard; no test/live key separation and no sandbox host
label: Self-serve signup with a 14-day free trial; pricing quoted by sales
confidence: high
source:
- plans/appgain-plans-pricing.yml
- sandbox/appgain-sandbox.yml
- authentication/appgain-authentication.yml
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Mobile Marketing
- Marketing Automation
- Omnichannel Messaging
- Push Notifications
- SMS
- Email
- WhatsApp
- Customer Data Platform
- Deep Linking
- Customer Engagement
- AI Agents
- Conversational AI
- MENA
image: https://appgain.io/og-image-blog.jpg
apis:
- name: Appgain OmniChannel Messaging API
description: REST API for sending multi-channel campaigns (rich push notifications, email, SMS, web push), creating smart
deep links, managing a media library, and logging user events/purchases into the Appgain CDP. Authentication is via an
application API key (appApiKey header) scoped to a project ID.
humanURL: https://apidocs.appgain.io
baseURL: https://api.appgain.io
tags:
- Messaging
- Push Notifications
- Deep Linking
- Event Logging
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.appgain.io
- type: Postman
url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/4679101/T17KeScV?version=latest
- type: PostmanCollection
url: postman/appgain-omnichannel.postman_collection.json
name: Appgain.io public Postman collection (verbatim, 30 requests)
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/appgain-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/appgain-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/appgain-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/appgain-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/appgain-rate-limits.yml
- name: Appgain Notify API
description: The messaging send service. A single POST /{projectId}/send endpoint whose channel is selected by the top-level
body key (appPush, email, SMS, webPush, WHATSAPP, UOWHATSAPP), plus SMS target-list subscribe/unsubscribe and WhatsApp
template creation. Authenticated with the project appApiKey header.
humanURL: https://apidocs.appgain.io
baseURL: https://notify.appgain.io
tags:
- Messaging
- Push Notifications
- SMS
- Email
- WhatsApp
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.appgain.io
- type: PostmanCollection
url: postman/appgain-omnichannel.postman_collection.json
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/appgain-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/appgain-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/appgain-problem-types.yml
- name: Appgain Automator API
description: The marketing-automation service. Fires and cancels dashboard-configured automation journeys at a named trigger
point, for one user or a batch of users via the v2 form. Authenticated with the project appApiKey header.
humanURL: https://docs.appgain.io/Marketing%20Automation/ServerSideAutomation/
baseURL: https://automator.appgain.io
tags:
- Marketing Automation
- Customer Journeys
- Event Triggers
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.appgain.io/Marketing%20Automation/ServerSideAutomation/
- type: PostmanCollection
url: postman/appgain-omnichannel.postman_collection.json
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/appgain-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/appgain-problem-types.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://appgain.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://docs.appgain.io
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.appgain.io/complete-knowledge-base/
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.appgain.io
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://docs.appgain.io/SDK/gettingStarted/
- type: Postman
url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/4679101/T17KeScV?version=latest
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://headwayapp.co/appgain-changelog
- type: Blog
url: https://www.appgain.io/blog
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.appgain.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
url: https://dashboard.appgain.io
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://appgain.io/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.appgain.io/privacy
- type: Support
url: https://p.appgain.io/slack
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/appgain
- type: Packages
url: packages/appgain-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/appgain-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/appgain-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/appgain-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/appgain-changelog.yml
name: Appgain Changelog (structured)
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/appgain-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/appgain-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/appgain-llms.txt
name: Appgain llms.txt (verbatim from https://www.appgain.io/llms.txt, HTTP 200)
- type: PostmanCollection
url: postman/appgain-omnichannel.postman_collection.json
name: Appgain.io public Postman collection (verbatim, 30 requests)
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/appgain-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/appgain-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/appgain-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/appgain-sandbox.yml
name: Push Notification Lab + free-project testing posture
- type: Plans
url: plans/appgain-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/appgain-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/appgain-webhooks.yml
name: WhatsApp Lite outbound delivery and user-reply webhooks
- type: Components
url: components/appgain-components.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
name: Appgain agent skills (4)
- type: WellKnownProbe
url: well-known/appgain-well-known.yml
name: /.well-known probe record - no document served on any host (recorded absence, not a WellKnown pointer)
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-13'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 17
artifacts_updated: 6
pass: local-v1
headline: Contract discovery found the machine-readable contract the previous pass missed - a real public Postman Collection
v2 (30 requests, 4 hosts) served from Appgain's own apidocs.appgain.io - plus a genuine llms.txt at www.appgain.io/llms.txt.
There is still no OpenAPI on any host.
x-pointers-deliberately-withheld:
note: Artifacts exist on disk for these, but no canonical scored pointer is emitted because the underlying thing is genuinely
absent. Recorded so a later pass does not "fix" it by adding the pointer.
withheld:
- type: WellKnown
reason: no /.well-known document on any of six hosts; www.appgain.io returns HTTP 200 for every /.well-known path but
the body is the identical SPA shell, so those 200s are a catch-all, not documents
artifact: well-known/appgain-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
reason: no security.txt served
artifact: well-known/appgain-well-known.yml
- type: AgentCard
reason: no A2A agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json or /.well-known/agent.json on any host; search-only artifact,
never authored
artifact: none
- type: MCPServer
reason: Appgain ships no MCP server, hosted or installable. mcp/appgain-mcp.yml is a DERIVED candidate tool list with
deployment.mode = none; pointing MCPServer at it would credit an agent surface that does not exist
artifact: mcp/appgain-mcp.yml
- type: StatusPage
reason: Appgain's own n8n guide directs integrators to status.appgain.io, but that hostname has no DNS record - a documented
status page that does not exist is an absence
artifact: lifecycle/appgain-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
reason: no deprecation policy
no Sunset/Deprecation header support: null
artifact: lifecycle/appgain-lifecycle.yml
- type: Idempotency
reason: no idempotency key, header or parameter anywhere in the published contract or docs; retrying a send re-sends the
campaign
artifact: conventions/appgain-conventions.yml
- type: Security
reason: no security.txt, no responsible-disclosure page, no bug bounty; probe-security-programs.py returned vdp=none
artifact: none
- type: TrustCenter
reason: no trust centre on trust.appgain.io (no DNS), security.appgain.io, or /trust|/security|/compliance; probe returned
trust=none
artifact: none
- type: Compliance
reason: no named third-party certification published (no SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP); only marketing compliance
language and a standard GDPR privacy policy
artifact: conformance/appgain-conformance.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
reason: no AsyncAPI document; the webhook surface is advertised in release notes with no event schema, so only Webhooks
is emitted
artifact: asyncapi/appgain-webhooks.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
reason: API-key auth only - no OAuth2 flow
token endpoint or scope surface: null
artifact: none
- type: OpenAPI
reason: no OpenAPI/Swagger on any host after probing /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /v1/openapi.json, /api-docs,
/swagger/v1/swagger.json across six hosts; the published machine-readable contract is a Postman collection
artifact: postman/appgain-omnichannel.postman_collection.json