# PushWard — Webhooks to Live Activities

> Webhooks to Live Activities (iPhone/iPad app by MACIEJ KEDZIORA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pushward/id6759689999 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MACIEJ KEDZIORA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1880217479)
- Category: Developer Tools, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 54 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Bangla, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and 15 more
- Released: 2026-05-27
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pushward/id6759689999/reviews.md

## What is PushWard?

PushWard turns plain HTTP requests into iOS Live Activities. Bridge your backend services to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen — one API call starts an activity, another updates it.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Create an activity with a template and slug via the API
2. Update state and content with a simple PATCH request
3. The update lands on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island instantly

No APNs certificates to manage. No device tokens to track.

8 BUILT-IN TEMPLATES
• Generic — Track any progress with a customizable bar, state label, and countdown timer
• Countdown — Auto-managed timer with server-side warning and completion pushes
• Steps — CI/CD step indicator with matrix job support and stage tracking
• Alert — Severity-based alerts with deep links to dashboards and alert rules
• Gauge — Monitor values within a range with auto-calculated progress and min/max labels
• Timeline — Real-time sparkline chart with multi-series support, thresholds, and auto-scaling
• Board — A grid of up to four status tiles, each with a value, unit, icon, color, and trend arrow
• Log — A live, scrolling feed of events with timestamps and severity, newest first

20 READY-MADE INTEGRATIONS
Webhook relay (zero code, no server needed):
Grafana • ArgoCD • Radarr • Sonarr • Bazarr • Jellyfin • Paperless-ngx • Uptime Kuma • Gatus • Overseerr • Proxmox • Changedetection • Unmanic • Backrest

Self-hosted Docker bridges:
GitHub Actions • SABnzbd • Bambu Lab 3D Printer • Unraid NAS • Grafana (advanced)

Smart home:
Home Assistant via HACS — track any entity as a Live Activity

KEY FEATURES
• Apple Watch app — view your Live Activities and notification history on your wrist, with watch-face complications and Smart Stack support for all templates
• Made for iPad — a universal app with an adaptive two-pane layout and full landscape support
• Live Activity designer — build and push a Live Activity right from the app, no code required
• Siri & Shortcuts — send a notification or open your unread inbox hands-free
• Control Center controls — fire a widget webhook or open your inbox from Control Center
• Powerful search — search your entire notification and email history on device, and find any notification from Spotlight
• Critical Alerts — let your most urgent notifications break through silent mode and Focus
• Sign in with Apple — no passwords or email required
• Up to 5 concurrent Live Activities with priority-based smart eviction
• Activity sharing via share codes and universal links
• Push-to-Start — the server starts Live Activities on your device remotely
• Scoped integration keys with slug restrictions and rotation
• Custom accent, background, and text colors (named or hex)
• In-app notification inbox with per-source preferences
• Email delivery — send emails to your verified recipients and browse your sent history
• iCloud sync — your settings stay in sync across all your devices
• Interactive demo — try all templates without any setup
• Full account deletion — instantly, no hoops

PRIVACY BY DESIGN
• No analytics, ad networks, or tracking
• Sign in with Apple only — we never see your email
• API tokens stored as SHA-256 hashes
• Activities auto-clean via configurable TTLs
• All communication over HTTPS/TLS and encrypted APNs

PRICING
PushWard has a generous free tier — no credit card required:
• 500 push notifications and 250 Live Activity updates per month
• 3 registered devices and up to 5 concurrent Live Activities
• All templates and full REST API access

Upgrade any time for unlimited notifications and updates, Activity Sharing via share codes, and up to 10 registered devices:
• PushWard Plan — billed annually, with a 14-day free trial
• Family — billed annually, shared with up to 5 family members
• Founding — a one-time Lifetime purchase that never renews
Pricing is shown on the in-app paywall.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://pushward.app/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PushWard Plan | $23.99 | per year |
| Family | $34.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $99.00 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #192 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools (US App Store)


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.10.0 — 2026-08-31

Widgets on the Apple Watch now draw their real charts, and an activity pushed out by the limit comes back when a slot frees.

- Trend, countdown, battery, schedule and flow used to fall back to a plain number on the Apple Watch. They now draw the same sparklines, charge rings, period bands and flow rates as the phone, and a bright accent color dims itself once the display goes always-on.
- A Live Activity in the watch Smart Stack now carries its template icon, board mini-tiles and a remaining-time clock, and a media card gets previous, play/pause and next chips that fire on your iPhone.
- When a slot frees up - an activity ended, was deleted, ran out its countdown, or you swiped it off the Lock Screen - the highest-priority activity that had been pushed out to make room comes back on its own. Swiping also clears the card on your other devices.
- A steps activity now prints its subtitle under the name on the Lock Screen and in the expanded Dynamic Island.
- severity_label on an alert now takes 40 characters instead of 32, and every text limit the API enforces is published in the schema.

Fixed:
- A countdown row in the widget list showed the clock time it was drawn at instead of counting down, and kept showing a past time after it expired rather than its completion message.
- A battery row named the first device instead of the emptiest one, and a flow row dropped the sign, so exporting to the grid read exactly like importing from it.
- A trend row that carries only points showed no reading at all, and a schedule row did not say which period its number belonged to.
- An iPad or Mac that was never woken after an activity started kept the finished card frozen on the Lock Screen.
- A push too large for its budget drops the full artwork and keeps the blurred preview, instead of arriving with no image at all.

### 1.9.1 — 2026-08-26

Fixes for the media player card, from a user bug report.

Fixed:
- The play/pause button drew the current state instead of the action, so it showed play while playing. The tap always fired the right control; the glyph now matches it.
- Cover art could stay on the previous track when a player reuses one artwork URL across tracks. A changed thumbhash now refreshes the cached art instead of losing to it.

### 1.9.0 — 2026-08-22

A media player Live Activity, driven by your own server.

- New media template: a Now Playing card with cover art, a scrubber that keeps ticking on its own between pushes, and transport buttons - previous, play/pause, next, stop, a favorite heart and volume - that fire your webhooks, so the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island steer your player directly. Play/pause flips the instant you tap it; your next push confirms the state.
- Buttons on every template now light up when tapped and settle back as soon as the webhook completes.

Fixed:
- A Live Activity whose share was revoked now leaves the Lock Screen promptly instead of lingering until it expires.
- Reinstalling the app no longer briefly dismisses ongoing Live Activities on the next launch.

### 1.8.0 — 2026-08-18

Live Activities now appear at the notch on your Mac.

- On a MacBook with a notch, an ongoing activity wraps around it, Dynamic Island style, and pops up when it starts or something meaningful changes. It steps aside on its own while another notch app is running, and you can turn it off in Settings.
- On iPhone, a steps activity now shows a progress ring and the current step's name right in the compact Dynamic Island, so you can see where things stand without expanding it.

Fixed:
- Cover art no longer shows as a black frame on the iPad Lock Screen.
- A blank step label no longer draws an empty caption row on the Lock Screen or in the expanded island.
- On Mac, segmented pickers in forms sit centered again.

### 1.7.0 — 2026-08-10

Live Activities can now show cover art.

- Send an image with a progress or steps activity and it appears in place of the icon on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on your Apple Watch. Posters keep their 2:3 shape, and square and circular artwork work too.
- The artwork now shows inside the app as well, on the Activities list and at the top of an activity's detail screen.
- A tiny preview of the image travels with the update itself, so the card is never empty. You see a blurred version of the real artwork straight away, and it sharpens once the full image has been fetched.

Also new, outside the app:
- The PushWard integration for Home Assistant is now in the official HACS repository. You can install it by searching for PushWard in HACS, with no custom repository to add first.

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