Pushcut: Shortcuts Automation 2024.5

Pushcut is a powerful automation tool that allows you to create personalized interactions for HomeKit, Shortcuts, and custom workflows. With its smart notifications and widgets combined with robust automation actions, Pushcut helps you kick off your automation when it matters.

One of the standout features of Pushcut is its ability to use HomeKit scenes, shortcuts, online integrations, and web services as notification actions. You can set up notifications that pop up exactly when they matter to you, triggered by Shortcuts, HomeKit, schedules, locations, iBeacons, online services like IFTTT, Zapier, Flow, Integromat, home servers, or anywhere that supports HTTP.

Pushcut also allows you to design beautiful custom widgets that display dynamic information. You can provide this information using Shortcuts actions, online services, or even Pushcut's own API.

Pushcut has received rave reviews from industry experts:

• "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)

Key Features:

• Set up alerts & reminders to trigger scheduled and location-based smart notifications
• Combine time and location triggers for precise automation
• Schedule notifications and shortcuts
• Create custom home-screen widgets
• Trigger notifications and widget updates through a secure webhook or Pushcut API
• Integrate with third-party services like Zapier, Integromat, IFTTT, etc.
• Customize notification titles and messages
• Add action buttons to notifications for quick access
• Run shortcuts and activate HomeKit scenes directly from notifications
• Add URLs to notifications and open them directly
• Execute online actions (webhooks, HTTP requests) from notifications without the need to open any app or website
• Background execution of online actions based on location or iBeacon events
• Customize notification sounds and images
• Deliver push notifications to specific devices individually
• Utilize a powerful JSON API for dynamic texts, shortcut inputs, and URLs
• Use a dedicated iOS device as your personal Shortcuts and HomeKit server

For Apple Watch users, Pushcut offers:

• Interactive notifications (requires watchOS 6)
• Run HomeKit scenes, online actions, and HTTP requests directly from your wrist
• Execute multiple actions from one notification with the "Keep Open" flag

• Note: Opening Shortcuts, Safari, or other apps is not supported on Apple Watch.

Pushcut offers both a free version and a Pro version. The free version includes some limitations, such as a maximum of 3 notifications, 2 background actions, and only local triggers or basic webhooks. The Pro version unlocks numerous benefits, including custom dynamic widgets, unlimited notification definitions and actions per notification, activation of HomeKit scenes, unlimited background actions, dynamic notifications from service integrations, fully customizable actions using the JSON API, execution of online actions and web requests directly, input parameters for shortcuts and online actions, and the ability to run and monitor an Automation Server (limits apply).

If you opt for the Automation Server Extended plan, you can enjoy additional features like scheduling server actions periodically, triggering delayed server actions, and up to 5000 server requests per day.

Pushcut offers subscription plans that can be billed monthly or annually. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase, and your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions through your account settings on the App Store after making the purchase.

For more information, you can refer to Pushcut's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.