KumaAlert/Uptime Kuma app
There is no official one. Here is every way to get Uptime Kuma onto your phone, and how to choose between them.
Uptime Kuma has no official mobile app. The project ships a self-hosted server with a web dashboard, and nothing else. There are three ways to get it onto a phone:
1. Point Uptime Kuma at a notification service (ntfy, Pushover, Telegram) and install that service's app — free, but text alerts only. 2. Add the web dashboard to your Home Screen — free, but no push notifications and your server has to be reachable. 3. Install a third-party native client — a real dashboard with history, widgets and push, from about £2 to £15 depending which you pick.
No. Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted server with a web dashboard, and the project ships no iOS or Android client of its own. Louis Lam has been clear that the project's scope is the server; anything you install on a phone is either a generic notification app, the web UI in a browser, or a third-party client written by someone else. The project does keep a community list of those clients on its 3rd Party Addons & Apps wiki page, which is the closest thing to an official index.
That leaves three genuinely different ways to get Uptime Kuma onto a phone, and they solve different problems. It is worth understanding all three before you pay for anything, because for a lot of home-lab setups the free route is the correct answer.
Uptime Kuma has built-in support for dozens of notification services. You never install an “Uptime Kuma app” at all: you point Kuma at a push service, install that service's app, and outages arrive as normal push notifications. Set it up under Settings → Notifications → Setup Notification, then attach the notification to the monitors you care about.
| Service | Cost | Why you'd choose it | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| ntfyntfy.sh or self-hosted | Free | Topic-based, open source, self-hostable, no account needed on the public server. | Anyone who guesses your topic name on the public server can read it unless you add auth. |
| Pushover | One-off per platform | Reliable, has priority levels, and emergency priority repeats until you acknowledge. | Paid per platform, and it is a third party holding the delivery path. |
| Telegram | Free | Everyone already has it; a bot takes five minutes to wire up. | Alerts land in the same app as your group chats, and get muted with them. |
| Gotify | Free, self-hosted | Fully self-contained if you refuse to depend on anything you don't run. | Another container to run, and Android-first — the iOS story is weak. |
| Discord / Slack | Free | Good for a team channel and an audit trail of who saw what. | Terrible for waking one person up. Channel noise buries outages. |
The honest summary: this route is free, it works, and it is what most people should try first. What it does not give you is state. You get a line of text saying something went down. You cannot see uptime history, scrub a response-time chart, check a certificate expiry, silence a monitor for a maintenance window, or acknowledge an incident so your co-admin knows you are on it. For that you need the dashboard, which brings us to the other two routes.
The 3am problem. Every route in this table delivers a normal push notification, and a normal push notification is silent when your phone is. If the reason you are reading this is that you slept through an outage, none of these fix it on iOS — only an app entitled to send Apple Critical Alerts can sound through Silent mode and Focus.
Uptime Kuma's dashboard is responsive and works reasonably well in a mobile browser. On iPhone you can open it in Safari and use Share → Add to Home Screen; on Android, Chrome's Add to Home screen does the same. You get an icon that opens the real dashboard full-screen, with everything the desktop has.
Two things stop this being the whole answer. First, no push: Uptime Kuma does not implement web push, so an installed dashboard cannot notify you of anything. It is a viewer, not an alerter. Second, reachability: your phone has to be able to reach the server, which means either exposing Uptime Kuma to the internet (and then hardening it, keeping it patched, and putting something in front of it) or running a VPN or Tailscale on the phone and remembering to connect before you look.
If you already run Tailscale on your phone and only want to glance at status now and then, this route costs nothing and you can stop reading here.
A native client logs into your Uptime Kuma instance with the same credentials or API key you use on the web, and gives you the dashboard as a real app: monitor list, heartbeat bars, response-time charts, uptime percentages, and in most cases push notifications and widgets. Here is the field, taken from public App Store and Google Play listings on 5 August 2026 on the UK storefront. Prices vary by country, and we have deliberately not made feature claims about other developers' apps that a store listing cannot support.
| App | Download | In-app purchases | Platforms | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KumaAlertthis site | £3.99 once | None | iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch, Wear OS | August 2026 |
| Uptime Kuma ManagerHALLIHARP TECH LLC | Free | Premium subscription, £0.99/month or £9.99/year | iPhone, iPad, Android | January 2026 |
| WumaGianpiero Radano | £4.99 | Premium, £9.99 | iPhone, iPad | October 2023 |
| Kuma : StatusTheo Vankoekelberg | Free | Premium Lifetime, £3.99 | iPhone, iPad | July 2026 |
| Uptime MateChristoph Scherbeck | Free | Pro £1.99, Premium Icon £3.99 | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | April 2026 |
Two of those are a different kind of app than the rest. Kuma : Status reads public status pages only and never asks for admin credentials, which is a genuinely good property if a status glance is all you want. Uptime Mate is built around Apple Watch and its own listing describes it as deliberately quiet. Neither is trying to be a full dashboard. There is a longer, honest breakdown on the Uptime Kuma app alternatives page.
KumaAlert is the native client made by this site, and it exists for exactly one of the cases above: you want the dashboard in your pocket and you want an alert that actually wakes you. Marked-critical monitors send Apple Critical Alerts that sound through Silent mode, Do Not Disturb and every Focus. Alerts arrive by an outbound webhook from your server to a push relay, so Uptime Kuma never has to be reachable from the internet. Everything else — heartbeat history, incident timelines with Acknowledge and Snooze, home-screen widgets, Apple Watch and Wear OS, maintenance windows, multiple servers — is in the one £3.99 purchase, with no subscription and nothing else to buy.
It is not the right answer for everyone. If free text alerts do the job, use ntfy and keep your money. If you only need to watch a public status page, do not give an app your admin credentials. KumaAlert is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Uptime Kuma project.