pingground
Notifications you can answer
Free
Every notification your scripts send, in one inbox: images, labeled links, and questions you can answer. Honest APNs results, never a fake success.
pingground is an inbox for the notifications your own scripts, servers, and services send you — and the only one that can ask you a question back.
INBOX
Every notification lands in an inbox named after, and pictured with, the application that sent it. Read the full text, see the image, and open a labeled link. Search everything, filter to unread or to questions still waiting on you, and mark all as read. Time-sensitive messages keep their tint and symbol. Read markers stay on this device and are never reported to the sender as delivery receipts.
QUESTIONS
A notification can ask you something and wait for the answer. Two to four choices, a plain No/Yes, or a typed reply. Answer in the app, straight from the notification's actions, or on the web: the first answer the server accepts is final everywhere, on every device. Questions expire on a deadline the sender chooses, thirty minutes by default and anywhere from one minute to twenty-four hours. Senders poll for the result or receive a signed webhook. Opening, reading, dismissing, or letting a question expire is never counted as an answer.
PLAYGROUND
Compose an alert once, try it locally on the spot, then send the same draft through the real Apple Push Notification service. Before anything is sent you see the canonical JSON the server will actually transmit, the provider headers, and the exact UTF-8 payload byte count against the 4096-byte ceiling. Invalid payloads are rejected before APNs is contacted, naming the exact field to fix. Save drafts you keep reaching for as templates.
HONEST SEMANTICS
Most push tooling tells you a send "succeeded." pingground refuses to overstate. A local test says the device accepted a local request. A remote test says APNs accepted the provider request. Neither is reported as proof that a notification was presented on a screen, because an APNs 200 does not mean that. Every send is kept with its request time, target, APNs identifier, HTTP status, rejection reason, and whether the device token was invalidated.
A NOTIFICATION SERVICE FOR YOUR SCRIPTS
Create an application, issue an API credential, and let your cron jobs, CI runs, deploy scripts, and webhooks notify your phone over a simple HTTP API. The credential is shown once and never again. A retried request can opt into a 24-hour idempotency contract so an uncertain send is never duplicated. Uptime Kuma works through one dedicated preset adapter.
CONSENT IS THE ONLY ADDRESS
Notifications can never be addressed by device token, installation, or user ID — only through a consent edge the recipient created. You subscribe yourself to an application from your own signed-in surface. That grant carries your own hourly and daily caps and a mute switch, and one tap revokes it. Connected Applications in Settings lists every application allowed to notify you, when each last sent, and the limits you set.
WEB DASHBOARD
The same account signs in on the web for application, credential, subscription, inbox, device, and account management, plus the public API reference.
PRIVACY
Sign in with Apple is the only sign-in. There is no advertising, tracking, or analytics SDK. Sent and received history is retained for 30 days. pingground keeps the provider facts needed to debug a send and does not log credentials, raw device tokens, or payload data it does not need. Sign out, unregister a device, or delete your account and its server data outright from inside the app.
Ratings & Reviews
pingground now runs natively on the Mac, and images in your inbox open full screen.
• pingground for Mac: your inbox, questions, playground, and connected applications in a native Mac app with a sidebar, a Settings window, and an Inbox menu with keyboard shortcuts
• Sign in on the Mac with the same Apple Account, and answer a question straight from its notification there too
• A Text Size setting on the Mac, under Settings › Appearance, that applies to every pingground window
• When notifications are off on the Mac, a banner offers to enable them or open System Settings, and stays dismissed once you close it
• View an inbox image full screen, or in its own window on the Mac: zoom in to read the detail, and share it
• Opening a notification shows its text at once while the rest of the message loads, with a clear Try Again when it can't
The developer, Connor Larkin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Connor Larkin
- Size
- 3.1 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 27.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 27.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 27.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 27.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Connor Larkin