# Pushover

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pushover/  
**Website:** https://pushover.net  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Pushover is a simple push notification service that delivers real-time notifications to phones, tablets, desktops, and watches from servers, scripts, and applications. The Pushover Message API accepts HTTPS POSTs with an application token and user/group key to send formatted messages with priorities, sounds, images, and supplementary URLs. Additional APIs exist for groups, subscriptions, licensing, receipts, and Open Client.

## Kin Score — 31.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 20.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (6)

- **Pushover Open Client API** — Real-time client API for Pushover. Combines a WebSocket channel at wss://client.pushover.net/push that streams single-byte control frames (`#` keepalive, `!` new message, `R` re...
- **Pushover Apps API** — The Apps API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for apps.
- **Pushover Messages.json API** — The Messages.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for messages.json.
- **Pushover Receipts API** — The Receipts API from Pushover — 2 operation(s) for receipts.
- **Pushover Sounds.json API** — The Sounds.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for sounds.json.
- **Pushover Users API** — The Users API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for users.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pushover Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 3 acting

## Security (1)

- **Pushover Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Notification, Push Notifications, Messaging, Alerts, Monitoring

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/pushover/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.