Desktop Notifications has been discontinued on February 28, 2019.

All good things come to an end. Desktop Notifications was initially created as a student project in 2012. Since then, the app has been downloaded almost 600,000 times and billions of notifications were sent to desktops around the world.

Why is this happening? Last year, multiple things came together that eventually led to our choice to discontinue Desktop Notifications. The human-computer interaction group at the University of Stuttgart split and moved to the University of Munich and the University of Regensburg, with only a few people remaining in Stuttgart. Additionally, Google announced the plans to discontinue Google+ for consumers (including the Google+ APIs) and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), the latter which powers the actual distribution of push events. While replacements for the Google+ sign-in and GCM exist, switching to them would require a complete rewrite of most components of Desktop Notifications.

Last year, multiple things came together that eventually led to our choice to discontinue Desktop Notifications. The human-computer interaction group at the University of Stuttgart split and moved to the University of Munich and the University of Regensburg, with only a few people remaining in Stuttgart. Additionally, Google announced the plans to discontinue Google+ for consumers (including the Google+ APIs) and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), the latter which powers the actual distribution of push events. While replacements for the Google+ sign-in and GCM exist, switching to them would require a complete rewrite of most components of Desktop Notifications. What will happen? We will roll out final updates for the Android app and Chrome extension. The updates will remove all functionality from the app/extension and will allow you to uninstall them with a single click. Server-side account and device data will be deleted. You can optionally revoke the Google account authentication by visiting this page. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at hcilab@gmail.com.

Thank you for using Desktop Notifications.

The hciLab team