Prowl is the Growl client for iOS. Push to your iOS device notifications from your Mac or Windows computer, or from a multitude of apps and services. Easily integrate the Prowl API into your applications.
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Get instant Google Voice notifications free by forwarding the emails to your Prowl email address. Quick directions available at http://prowlapp.com/faq.php#gvoice. You can even redirect and listen to the voicemail automatically!
Full list of supported apps/services outside of Growl on Mac and Windows: http://prowlapp.com/apps.php
The only limit of what the service can do is your imagination.
REQUIREMENTS
To receive notifications from your computer, you need the latest:
• Growl on your Mac @ growl.info, or
• Growl for Windows @ growlforwindows.com, or
• Snarl on Windows @ fullphat.net, or
• Any program or web service using the public API.
THE CRITICS
"I was extremely impressed with Prowl and the elegance with which I was able to view Growl notifications on my iPhone.”
—Aron Trimble, TUAW
"Best non-IM use of iPhone 3.0's push notifications yet.”
—Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo
"Great idea. This opens up iPhone push notifications for anything you can think of.”
—John Gruber, Daring Fireball
"Probably the best $3 I’ve ever spent in the App Store.”
—Darrell Etherington, The Apple Blog
FEATURES
• Push Notifications—When a Growl notification pops up on your computer, it's sent to Prowl and displayed on your iOS device within seconds.
• Sweet application support—Prowl has support from a bunch of cool applications and services. Check out the full list at <http://prowlapp.com/apps.php>.
• Redirections—Launch a different application when you open a push notification. For example, a notification from your desktop Twitter client can relaunch into your favorite mobile client. You can even pick custom URLs to launch, so you can go anywhere!
• Email to push—Use your Prowl email address (from the Prowl homepage's "API keys" tab) to get email delivery right on your device. Generate as many email addresses as you need!
• An amazing API—Use the Prowl API with a multitude of libraries in various programming languages. You can send notifications from anything that can talk to the internet, and do some fun things along with it.
• Quiet Hours—During the hours you specify, only the badge numbers are updated. No matter the source. Instead of getting a noisy alert, messages are quietly delivered. You can allow emergency-priority items to break quiet hours.
• Control—Open the edit view to get a quick glance at your notifications, and do away with pesky ones. Quickly copy, email or SMS a notification directly from Prowl (depending on device and iOS version).
• History—Up to 10 days of notifications are kept on the server. You can delete notifications that you don't want to see any more, or remove all of your history.
• Customized notifications—Only events you want are sent to Prowl. You can specify all kinds of conditions from the Prowl plugin for Growl.
• Send any message to your device—From the Prowl website, you can send any text to your device: links and phone numbers are automatically linked, so you can easily navigate around without having to worry about typos. From the website or API, you can also automatically redirect to the attached URL.
SETUP
http://prowlapp.com/installation.php — for Mac.
http://prowlapp.com/faq.php#windows — for Windows.
SUPPORT
http://prowlapp.com/support.php
UPCOMING FEATURES
iPad support, offline notification access, more condensed display 2011 Zachary West
Prowl: Growl Client reviewed by Users
Great for on the go updates! Prowl is a great application for people constantly on the go! It's great to be able to see what's going on when you're not at the computer. Being able to send my self notifications from the website is a life saver instead of typing notes on the actual phone. Definitely recommend this app to any "busy body" out there!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 3, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Jesse1087
Wonderful idea expertly executed I use Growl extensively on my computer, often to notify me of tasks which will complete hours or more later. I've only been using Prowl relay those messages to my iPhone for a short time, but I'm already in love!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 3, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
tekjew
Great app The API makes this app worth much more than the current price!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 9, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Outlet
awesome, incredibly useful and works great! ive been using prowl and it works great, i receive all the notifications i expect to receive and its quite snappy too! (no, you WONT receive prowls when your computer is turned off. you dont get growl notifications when your computer is off so why would you expect to get prowls?!) if youre crafty the possibilities are pretty endless, especially with the API.some people have complained about a possible connection timeout on wifi connections, but i contacted the dev instead of just dropping an uneducated negative review and he said its just a little database flaw that he is already fixing. not only that but i can say ive never experienced it myself!looking forward to prowl 1.1, i hear there are a lot of great new feature additions.
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Version 1.0
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Aug 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
boxofclocks
Shhh...the API is the hidden secret The API just made my day!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 12, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Mr McDowell
I've been waiting for something like this! It's hard to describe how useful this application really is - I use Growl for a lot of stuff on my Mac, and it's nice to be able to receive some of those notifications on my iPhone as well. For example, the delivery status widget (available from Apple's downloads section) pops up and update for my package, and that notification is immediately forwarded to my phone. It definitely beats refreshing a webpage to check a package status!
The beauty of Prowl is that it isn't limited to just one thing - it does whatever you need it to. If you want it to forward Mail notifications, that works. If you want to be notified when someone messages your on AIM, you can do that. If you want a message saying that your download completed in Transmission, that's as simple to configure as anything else. This is definitely a 5 star application. Simple, but as powerful as you want it to be.
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Version 1.1.5
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Aug 20, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
greatcaffeine
Been waiting for something like this Prowl and growl work really nice together. I'm now getting all sorts of notifications... Using it with Growlmail let's me get popup notifications anytime mail arrives... With growlnotify and a bit of scripting I have custom push notifications coming from my Mac
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Version 1.0
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Jul 4, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Not Cowboy
Awesome! Great idea, well done, super simple, works perfectly, worth $3 for sure. Take the rest of the summer off buddy.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 6, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Kevin Conner
Brilliant What an amazingly well executed app! This is perfect for those of us who want to be notified of changes to a different computer or server (network changes, battery time, disk space), app alerts (twitter DM or @ messages), new email from an account not on the iPhone or perhaps even file download completions. Coupled with Growl and a little AppleScript, you can be notified of virtually anything, anytime, anywhere.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 6, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
BabyGotMac.com
I love this app This app does exactly what it says it does, and very well. You can extend push pretty much however you like. Very cool.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
bendavis
Really nice app, works as expected. Useful if you use Growl but are away from your Mac. This app basically adds push notification to your Growl installation on your Mac. If you have a torrent client or IM client that you have installed, it makes it easier to check on those apps without actually visiting your Mac. Only drawback, due to no fault of the author, but due to the nature of Growl, is that you can only see the message that Growl displays and can't click through like you can on your Mac. Regardless, this app is very useful and can see it being very handy in the future. Additionally, the developer is very responsive and actively solicits feedback and feature improvements.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
bastula
So far, so good It works well so far. Reserving the 5th star until I find out how it works out for the next couple days.
Looking forward to it!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
echostats
Perfect Amazing. Just what the iPhone needs to show off push. Perfectly executed. Well done.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
CJ Mahoney
Finally! Outstanding app!! Best app to come to the app store. The possibilites are endless!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
pt.massage
So simple, yet so right Such a great idea, such a simple yet perfect implementation. Works as advertised and does exactly what I need it to do. For those not sure about what "Growl" is, just some of the things I can now get via push notifications: weather, news scores, tweet mentions/direct messages (could do all tweets on my timeline but that's too much:)), every announced concert that matches with an artist in my iTunes library, iCal reminders, weather notifications; really this app is only limited by what the growl community has come up with. This app is going to get a lot of attention and deservedly so. Hopefully this has a reverse effect of creating some more innovative growl compatible apps. My only minor, and it is extremely minor nitpick is that the UI and Icon could be prettier and perhaps blend in a little more with the rest of the iPhone UI, but really, the app is only there so that I can get the push notifications. This would be a five star app if the UI was all neon colors, it's not enough to offset the extreme usefulness here.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
heynow
Works great Good idea!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Raymond Brigleb
Absolutely brilliant! It works wonderfully. The ease of use of growl. Per app alerts and even priority level threshold. Anything I write or script on my mac now with push alerts to just me via growl.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
georgestarcher
No brainer If you use growl then this app is must have. I am using it with multiple applications with no problem.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
h3jam
Swiss army push notification tool! For a couple of bucks, now I can send any push notification I please to my iPhone from perl, plain HTTPS, or, yes, even Growl. Setup is a snap, and it just works. Not only is it going to be great for Growl-enabled event notification ("torrent is done!"), but I foresee hooking into Prowl from lots of custom AppleScript, perl, shell, and web-based tools, too. Awesome iPhone "glue". Great idea, great implementation; five stars.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
Kriegsman
Amazing! Great idea and works great! Thanks!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 7, 2009
- Prowl: Growl Client review by
rwojo
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