Pushcut: Shortcuts Automation2026.9 - App Store

Pushcut helps you kick off your automation when it matters. Create fine-tuned interactions for HomeKit, Shortcuts, and custom workflows through smart notifications and widgets combined with powerful automation actions.

Use HomeKit scenes, shortcuts, online integrations, and web services as notification actions that pop up exactly when they matter to you. Trigger these smart notifications from Shortcuts, HomeKit, schedules, locations, iBeacons, online services (like IFTTT, Zapier, Flow, Integromat, ...), home servers, or anywhere that knows what HTTP is.

Design beautiful custom widgets and display dynamic information that you can provide using Shortcuts actions, online services or our own API.

"The premiere companion utility for Shortcuts and Home on iOS" - Federico Viticci (MacStories)
"An essential tool for HomeKit power users" - Christopher Close (HomeKit Hero)
"Very powerful" - Rosemary Orchard (Take Control of Shortcuts)

Features
+ Set up alerts & reminders to trigger scheduled & location-based smart notifications
+ Combine time and location triggers (eg: "weekdays at 6 PM when I am at work")
+ Schedule notifications from Shortcuts
+ Schedule a shortcut from Shortcuts
+ Design custom home-screen widgets
+ Trigger notifications and widget updates through a secure webhook or Pushcut API
+ Trigger notifications and widget updates from third-party integrations and online services like Zapier, Integromat, IFTTT, etc.
+ Define notifications with custom titles and messages
+ Add action buttons to the notifications for quicker access
+ Run shortcuts directly from notification actions
+ Activate HomeKit scenes directly from notification actions
+ Add URLs to the push notifications and open them directly from the notifications
+ Run online actions (webhooks, HTTP requests) directly from notifications without opening any app or website
+ Execute online actions in the background based on location or iBeacon events
+ Customize notification sounds and images
+ Deliver push notifications to specific devices individually
+ Use a powerful JSON API to deliver dynamic texts, shortcut inputs, and URLs
+ Turn a dedicated iOS device into your personal Shortcuts and HomeKit server

Apple Watch
+ Interactive notifications (requires watchOS 6)
+ Run HomeKit scenes, online actions, and HTTP requests (like IFTTT webhooks) directly from your wrist
+ Execute multiple actions from one notification (with "Keep Open" flag)
(Note: Opening Shortcuts, Safari, or other apps is not supported on Apple Watch)

Free version limits:
+ define up to 3 notifications
+ define up to 2 background actions
+ define up to 1 action per notification
+ use with local triggers or basic webhooks (no dynamic content or online actions)

- Pro -
+ custom dynamic widgets
+ unlimited notification definitions
+ unlimited actions per notification
+ activate HomeKit scenes
+ unlimited background actions
+ dynamic notifications from service integrations
+ fully customizable actions using the powerful JSON API
+ execute online actions and web requests directly
+ input parameters for shortcuts and online actions
+ run and monitor an Automation Server (limits apply)

- Automation Server Extended -
+ schedule server actions periodically
+ trigger delayed server actions
+ up to 5000 server requests per day

Payments
You can subscribe to a monthly or annual subscription plan. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase. A subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after making the purchase.

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Version History • Ask Siri: check your server status, run a shortcut, open Pushcut or refresh your shortcuts, all by voice.
• Search your notifications or triggers in Spotlight and tap a result to jump straight to its details.
• Leading and trailing spaces are now removed from notification and widget names. 2026.9 Oct 4 - Widget AI now suggests alternative options when it can't create a widget from initial prompt
- Find Logged Notifications can now be sorted by date or name
- Logged Notifications now also tracks local and scheduled notifications, not just push notifications 2026.8 Aug 31 - Added Find Logged Notifications shortcuts action. Currently you can filter this by name, title, date sent, or error status. This is intended to help you build workflows that need to check whether a notification was delivered.
- Automation Server now shows your last successful action at-a-glance. If you're encountered a series of failures, it will show you the first action that failed to help you find the broken shortcut. 2026.7 Aug 5 - Pushcut's URL Scheme now supports x-callback-urls. Now other apps can trigger Automation Server actions, integrations, and HomeKit Scenes without you writing a shortcut.
- Fixed the "Copy curl" button on widgets providing an invalid URL when the widget name contained spaces. 2026.6 Jul 1 - Shortcuts list now allows you to manually add and delete imported shortcuts. It should also perform better when you have a large number of shortcuts.
- Add Find Images shortcut, which allows you to fetch the list of images that have been imported into Pushcut.
- Upload Image shortcut is now categorised under the Images section.
- Add updateWidget action to URL scheme.
- Workaround bug in iOS 26.5 that causes Shortcuts import to fail due to the now-broken x-callback-url implementation.
- Fix crash when deleting the last entry from the list of triggers on a Notification.
- Fix automatic trigger backups not always running automatically.

Happy Pride Month! 2026.5 Jun 1 - More updates to shortcuts import flow that works around iOS26.5 breaking x-callback-url support in Shortcuts. 2026.4.2 May 20 - Replace shortcuts import flow to workaround iOS26.5 breaking x-callback-url support in Shortcuts. 2026.4.1 May 19 - Add Notes field to Notifications
- Add Server Settings button to Server tab
- Add "Display true black screen" setting to Automation Server
- Use markdown in widget content templates
- Fix iBeacon triggers sometimes not running for "When Leaving" triggers 2026.4 Apr 30 - Add context menu option to convert back and forth between widget rows and columns
- Allow default values to be set for widget inputs
- Allow notifications to be sent in 'passive' mode (delivered silently)
- Fix crash when importing shortcuts 2026.3 Apr 1 - You can now set your Triggers to backup automatically to a folder of your choice
- Pushcut should now launch faster, especially if you have a lot of Triggers
- Fixed some bugs causing Triggers to sometimes not fire when they should 2026.2 Feb 28 In 2026.1.1:
- Fix Triggers iBeacon proximity config being overwritten when syncing your account
- Fix "Detectable Beacons" showing up as "Major xxxxx, Major: xxxxx" when it should be "Major xxxxx, Minor: xxxxx"

In 2026.1:
This release brings a powerful set of new capabilities for iBeacons and new Triggers controls, including:

- You can now search for iBeacons based on the UUID, Major and Minor values.
- You can see the status of a selected iBeacon, including its UUID, Major and Minor values, and proximity to the current location of your device.
- You can set your Triggers to only fire when in a certain proximity to one or more iBeacons.
- There is also a new Shortcuts action, Modify Trigger, that allows the enabling and disabling of triggers. 2026.1.1 Feb 9 This release brings a powerful set of new capabilities for iBeacons and new Triggers controls, including:

- You can now search for iBeacons based on the UUID, Major and Minor values.
- You can see the status of a selected iBeacon, including its UUID, Major and Minor values, and proximity to the current location of your device.
- You can set your Triggers to only fire when in a certain proximity to one or more iBeacons.
- There is also a new Shortcuts action, Modify Trigger, that allows the enabling and disabling of triggers. 2026.1 Feb 1 - Server Status Widget is now experimentally available on Apple Watch
- Modify Notification Shortcuts Action allows Notifications to be enabled or disabled automatically (coming soon to the API!)
- Fix requests not being processed when network connection drops and reconnections
- Numerous internal improvements that lay the groundwork for making Pushcut even better in 2026 2025.12 Jan 3 - "Automation Server Status" widget displays the current status of your Automation Server.
- Widget updates should now appear more rapidly, without requiring you to open the app.
- We've received feedback that the red circle next to "Ready For Requests" is misleading; we agree! The circle is now green when the Automation Server is running correctly.
- Fix a bug where request to the Automation Server would timeout without being executed, even when the server was showing "Ready For Requests". 2025.11 12/01/2025 - Redesigned layout on iPadOS 26
- Widget editor now offers Gradient Presets for "linear" backgrounds
- You can trigger any of the attached actions when viewing a logged notification (and the page has been refreshed with liquid glass)
- Vision Pro is now recognised in the Devices list
- Fix "Search" button appearing twice in notifications list on iPad
- Fix preview of HomeKit Gold icon in dark mode 2025.10 11/04/2025 - Liquid Glass UI refresh for iOS 26.
- Updated app icons on iOS 26.

In 2025.9.1:
- Fix Update Widget not passing inputs to the widget

In 2025.9.2:
- In our haste to share our new Liquid Glass design we accidentally took out the button for creating new Triggers on iOS 18 and earlier. Sorry about that, this update fixes it! 2025.9.2 10/02/2025 - Liquid Glass UI refresh for iOS 26.
- Updated app icons on iOS 26.

In 2025.9.1:
- Fix Update Widget not passing inputs to the widget 2025.9.1 09/26/2025 - Liquid Glass UI refresh for iOS 26.
- Updated app icons on iOS 26. 2025.9 09/24/2025 - Latest Update section of a Widget definition now shows the inputs that were sent with that update.
- Added Import Widget Content JSON Shortcuts Action, allowing you to directly import a Widget Content into Pushcut using Shortcuts.
- Added Find Widget Contents Shortcuts Action, allowing you to search for Widget Content and export a JSON copy using Shortcuts.
- Find Widgets Action now appears under the Widgets category in Shortcuts.
- Add links to re-open some of the Widgets onboarding pages. 2025.8 08/31/2025 - Fix an issue where the app would unnecessarily force you to sign-in again.
- Add a Find Widgets Shortcuts Action. 2025.7 08/01/2025 - You can now add tags to notifications
- New actions added to a notification now have more helpful default names rather than "New Action" 2025.6 06/30/2025 - You can now add (and filter by) tags in your Widget Content
- Fix image displayed in images in-app not necessarily updating when the file uploaded to Pushcut is changed 2025.5 06/01/2025 - Add Preview Widget Content Shortcuts action. This allows you to generate an image of any of your widgets on-demand. 2025.4 04/30/2025 - Widget AI is now better at answering imprecise requests
- You can now set the maximum height and width of a Spacer component in a widget
- Logged Notifications now shows the actions that were attached to the notification 2025.3 04/01/2025 - Add explanatory text when Widget AI is unable to generate a widget from the prompt
- Rename “Send Feedback” in Widget AI to “Report Issue” 2025.2.1 03/09/2025