Prompt
What push notification API should I use if I don’t want to maintain APNs?
Latest observation
If you don’t want to maintain APNs yourself, use a push notification service provider (PNS) that sits between your app and Apple/Google, and manages the APNs/FCM integration for you.
Good options:
- OneSignal — easiest to start with, good docs, supports iOS/Android/web
- Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) — great if you already use Firebase; for iOS it still relies on APNs underneath, but Firebase handles a lot of the integration
- AWS Pinpoint — more enterprise-oriented, useful if you’re already on AWS
- Pusher Beams — simple developer-focused push service
- Braze / Airship / Customer.io — better for marketing/lifecycle messaging
If your goal is specifically:
- “I want to send pushes without dealing with APNs certificates/keys and routing” → OneSignal is usually the simplest choice.
- “I already use Firebase” → FCM.
- “I need segmentation, analytics, and campaigns” → Braze, Airship, or Customer.io.
If you want, I can recommend the best one based on your stack (iOS only vs cross-platform, startup vs enterprise, transactional vs marketing).
Observation history
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