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Currently using Parse for Push notifications (it's simple to send a request to Parse and it handles iOS vs Android issues).

Is there any tool out there that has similar functionality? Ie. you register all your users devices there and they simplify the sending of push notifications.

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I just created an account on OneSignal: https://onesignal.com/

Free - what's the catch? I don't want to have the same problem all over again. Forget the fine print, the body text is really hard to read superthin gray text on white.

Hi, I'm one of the founders of OneSignal.

We make revenue from products that help companies with advertising and competitive research. Our push service helps us collect the data necessary to make this work, similar to services like Flurry Analytics. So we're happy to provide it for free. Happy to go into more detail via email: contact@onesignal.com

We just released an automatic Parse data importer for Parse users who are switching to OneSignal: https://onesignal.com/parse

We started using Parse for the simple push notifications, stayed for the DB.

Also had looked into Urban Airship but it's several times more expensive. I do want to pay for a service so it doesn't go away, but at those enterprise prices I'm definitely better off setting up my own APNS server.

I'm head of developer evangelism at http://pubnub.com and we can handle push notifications for you easily. What is your use case?

Hey, we are migrating from Parse and planning to use PubNub. With parse, 1. we use channels to subscribe. 2. All the cross platform thingy like iOS/Android/Windows is managed by Parse.

I have a couple of questions.

1. Do you have a way to upload all the channels+device tokes and stuff that we can extract from Parse? 2. What does the "Daily Active Devices" - 100 for Free tier mean? Does it have to do with Push notifications? because we are NOT using it for realtime connections.

We will have about 7-8 thousand devices registered and < 1 million push notifications. So are we still under the Free tier?

It may be worth checking out Taplytics. We do transactional, behavioral and event-driven pushes (plus, you can A/B test all of it in one place) :)

Disclamer - I work at Taplytics!

Google Cloud Messaging actually works really well for this.

It's not quite as simple to use but Amazon SNS works decently and I doubt it will shut down any time soon :-)

Appboy, Kahuna, or (shameless plug) mParticle if you want multiple options :)

Urban Airship too.

Urban airship as well I believe. I just remember typically finding Parse the easiest each time I had the opportunity to re-evaluate.

Yep definitely, Urban is a great option.

We migrated from Parse to Pushwoosh.

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