Novu
Novu is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Team Chat category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Twilio SendGrid and ships a Docker image. It has 40,202 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 40,202
- Forks
- 4,519
- Open issues
- 64
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,453
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- @novu/framework@v2.14.0Sep 28, 2026
- Created
- Aug 26, 2021
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 2,453 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,453 |
| Latest release | @novu/framework@v2.14.0 (Sep 28, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 153 |
| Open issues | 64 |
| Open pull requests | 67 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 26, 2021 |
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About Novu
Notification infrastructure for developers.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/novuhq/novu.
Topics
- notifications
- communication
- sms
- push-notifications
- transactional
- typescript
- nodejs
- notification-center
- react
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Is Novu free and open source?
Yes. Novu is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Novu with Docker?
Yes. Novu provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Novu?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Novu include Rocket.Chat, Mattermost and Chatwoot. Novu itself is a self-hosted alternative to Twilio SendGrid.
Is Novu actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Novu was on Oct 26, 2026 with 2,453 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is @novu/framework@v2.14.0, published Sep 28, 2026. It had 64 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.