Alerter 26.3 — Schedule It, Style It, Own It

Alerter 26.3 brings powerful new scheduling capabilities and a polished notification experience. You can now precisely control when your notifications appear, and they'll look better than ever doing it.

What's New

• Schedule notifications for later with --at — You can now deliver a notification at a specific time using --at HH:mm (fires at the next occurrence) or --at "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" for an exact date and time. Perfect for reminders, cron-like alerting, or time-sensitive workflows.

• Delay delivery with --delay — Need a notification to appear in a few seconds? The new --delay flag lets you defer delivery by a specified number of seconds — no external sleep command needed.

• Persistent banner-style notifications — Notifications now use the alert style by default, meaning they stay on screen until you interact with them. No more missing important alerts because a banner disappeared too quickly.

• A proper app icon — Alerter now ships with its own icon, giving your notifications a clean, recognizable look in Notification Center instead of a generic placeholder.

• Available on MacPorts — In addition to Homebrew, you can now install Alerter via MacPorts for seamless integration with your preferred package manager.

Upgrading

Install or update via Homebrew:

brew upgrade vjeantet/tap/alerter

Or via MacPorts:

sudo port upgrade alerter

Enjoy the new scheduling superpowers!