Firebase Cloud Messaging

What is Firebase Cloud Messaging?

It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.

Firebase Cloud Messaging is a tool in the Notifications category of a tech stack.

Firebase Cloud Messaging Pros & Cons

Pros of Firebase Cloud Messaging

✓Free

Cons of Firebase Cloud Messaging

✗Lack of BI tools

Firebase Cloud Messaging Integrations

Apple Push Notification Service, Deliverpush, Notifee, Engagespot, Camunda and 1 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Firebase Cloud Messaging. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Firebase Cloud Messaging.

Apple Push Notification Service

Firebase Cloud Messaging Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Firebase Cloud Messaging?

Amazon SNS

Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.

OneSignal

OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard.

Google Cloud Messaging

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers.

Amazon Pinpoint

Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement in mobile apps. Amazon Pinpoint helps you understand user behavior, define which users to target, determine which messages to send, schedule the best time to deliver the messages, and then track the results of your campaign.