Overview
Connect Pushover to your Taskade workspace and any automation can put a line on your lock screen. Paste two keys once, add a Send Notification step, and the things you care about reach you on your phone and desktop. This is the alert path for people who do not run a team chat workspace. You do not need Slack, and you do not need to keep a tab open to find out something happened.
TL;DR: Pushover connects to Taskade as one action, Send Notification, with no triggers. Give it a title, a message, and a priority, and it pushes to every device on your Pushover key. Emergency priority repeats until you acknowledge it. Pushover is not in the premium integration set, so the step works on every plan, alongside 100+ bidirectional integrations.
Pushover Is a One-Way Connector
Pushover is a one-way connector. Taskade pushes alerts out to it. There is no Pushover trigger, so an automation never starts from Pushover. You start the run with a Taskade-native trigger like Schedule or Webhooks, or with any other app's trigger, and then finish with a Pushover step.
That shape is the point. Pushover is the last step of a run, the part that tells you the run happened.
Connect & Configure Pushover
Pushover uses two keys instead of a sign-in window. Get both from your Pushover account, paste them once, and the connection is reusable across every automation and agent in your workspace.
- Sign in at pushover.net and copy Your User Key from the dashboard.
- Under Your Applications, create an application and copy its API Token.
- In Taskade, open Workspace → Automations and click Create to build a new automation. You can also prompt Taskade EVE to build it for you.
- Add the Pushover Send Notification step, then click Connect in the sidebar on the right.
- Paste the API Token and the User or Group Key, then click Test connection and Save.
Both values are stored encrypted and are only used to send your notifications.
💡 Note: To alert a whole group instead of yourself, paste your Pushover group key in place of the user key. Everyone on that group receives the notification.
If a Pushover step fails, read the error on the run first. A blank Title or Message names the field to fix, and a Pushover rate limit or outage clears on its own. If the error says Pushover rejected the credentials, reopen the step, paste the current keys, and test the connection again.
The Send Notification Action
One action covers the job. Two fields are required, the rest shape how the alert arrives.
| Field | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Yes | The headline on the notification. Keep it short enough to read on a lock screen. |
| Message | Yes | The body of the notification. |
| Priority | No | How loudly it arrives. Defaults to Normal. |
| Link (optional) | No | A link shown under the message, so the alert opens the record it is about. |
| Link Text (optional) | No | Friendly text to show instead of the raw link. |
| Sound (optional) | No | Overrides the sound set in your Pushover app. Leave it empty to use yours. |
Both Title and Message accept variables from earlier steps, so an alert can quote the row, the customer, or the error that caused it.
Picking a Priority
Priority is the whole reason to use Pushover over email. Match it to how much the alert deserves to interrupt you.
| Priority | How it arrives | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | No alert. It waits quietly in the Pushover app | Background logging you read later |
| Low | No sound or vibration | Routine "the run finished" notices |
| Normal | A standard notification | Most alerts. This is the default. |
| High | Bypasses your quiet hours | A customer is waiting, or a payment failed |
| Emergency | Repeats until acknowledged | A real outage you must not sleep through |
Emergency re-alerts every 60 seconds for up to an hour, and stops the moment you acknowledge it in the Pushover app. Reserve it for the handful of events that justify waking you up. Everything else reads better as High or Normal.
Use Pushover with AI Agents
Your AI agents can call Send Notification as a tool during a chat. Ask an agent to keep you posted and it pushes the alert itself, with no automation to build first. This is one of the tools an agent can reach for.
- Connect Pushover to your workspace (see above).
- Open your agent and go to the Tools tab.
- Enable Automation Actions, or add Pushover as a custom tool.
- Ask the agent in plain language. It fills in the title, message, and priority for you.
Prompt examples that map to the action:
- "Push me a notification when you finish the competitor summary."
- "If the overnight import finds a duplicate, send me a high priority alert with the row."
Example Workflows
A few patterns worth stealing.
- Job lands, you know: When a form fills your intake project, push the customer name and the request. You answer from your phone before a competitor does.
- Overnight watchdog: Run a scheduled automation at 6am that checks yesterday's numbers, and push a Normal alert with the total. You start the day already briefed.
- Failure that cannot be missed: Pair a Pushover step with the Fail Flow step so a broken run pushes an Emergency alert. Use Get Run Info in the message to quote the run id you need to open.
- Solo on-call: Send High priority alerts for anything customer-facing, and Low for the rest. Your quiet hours stay quiet unless it matters.
TRIGGER TASKADE YOUR PHONE
┌────────────┐ ┌────────────┐ ┌────────────┐
│ New form │ ───────▶ │ automation │ ───────▶ │ "New lead: │
│ response │ starts │ runs │ pushes │ Jane Doe" │
└────────────┘ └────────────┘ └────────────┘
the event the rule the alert
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pushover start automations too?
No. Pushover is a one-way connector with one action and no triggers, so it sends alerts out and never starts a run. Begin your automation with a Taskade trigger such as Schedule or Webhooks, or with another app's trigger, then finish the run with a Pushover step.
Which plans include Pushover?
Every plan. Pushover is not part of the premium integration set, so its automation step and agent tool are available on Free as well as paid plans. Plans differ mainly in how often your automations run. See the pricing page for the details.
Why did my step stop and say the Title is empty?
The Title was built from a variable, and the earlier step returned no value. An empty title makes Pushover show the application name instead, so Taskade stops the step and names the empty field. Open the step it reads from and check the variable.
How do I stop an Emergency alert?
Acknowledge it in the Pushover app on any of your devices. It stops immediately everywhere. If nobody acknowledges it, the alert repeats every 60 seconds and gives up after an hour on its own.
Can I notify my whole team?
Yes. Create a group in Pushover, add your people, and paste the group key in place of the user key when you connect. Every Pushover step on that connection then reaches everyone in the group.
My Pushover step stopped working
Read the error on the run. If it names an empty Title or Message, fix the variable that feeds it. If Pushover is rate limiting or unreachable, the next run usually succeeds on its own. If Pushover rejected the credentials, open the step, paste the current API token and user key, and test the connection.
Build the dashboard the alerts point at
An alert tells you something happened. It does not tell you where things stand. Those are different jobs, and most people only ever build the first one.
Describe an operations dashboard to Taskade Genesis and you get a live app that holds the current state of your work. Then let Pushover be its voice. A scheduled automation reads the dashboard overnight. It pushes one Normal alert with the numbers that matter, and an Emergency alert only when something is wrong. You stop checking, because the important things now come to you. Build it from a prompt and add Pushover as the final step.
Related guides
- Other ways to be notified: Slack · Discord · Telegram · Twilio
- Automation Guide. How a run is put together.
- Schedule. Start the run that sends your alert.
- Build with Taskade Genesis. Explore Automations, AI Agents, Integrations, and the Community Gallery.