Prompt
I'm unhappy with Twilio for app notifications
Latest observation
Totally fair—Twilio can be great for SMS/voice, but for app notifications it’s often not the best fit.
A few better alternatives depend on what you mean by “app notifications”:
If you mean push notifications for mobile/web
- Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) — best default for Android and web; can also work with iOS via APNs
- Apple Push Notification service (APNs) — if you’re iOS-only
- OneSignal — easier “all-in-one” push notification platform with dashboards, segmentation, automation
- Airship — more enterprise-grade notification + marketing automation
If you mean in-app notifications / event messaging
- Ably or Pusher — good for real-time in-app updates
- Firebase — good if you already use the Google ecosystem
- Stream — if notifications are part of an activity feed / social app
If you need email/SMS/push together
- Customer.io
- Braze
- OneSignal
- SendGrid + FCM/APNs for a custom stack
If you’re unhappy with Twilio specifically, common reasons are:
- too much setup for push notifications
- pricing/complexity
- limited push-first tooling compared to dedicated notification platforms
- dashboard/segmentation not as nice as notification-focused tools
If you want, I can help you pick the best replacement based on:
- platform (iOS, Android, web, all three),
- notification type (push, in-app, email, SMS), and
- your stack (native, React Native, Flutter, backend language).
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