Introducing earlynotify.com – Know About Apple Updates Before Everyone Else 🚀

May 16, 2025

We got tired of waiting...

Apple has a habit of releasing software updates quietly. Sometimes they take days or even weeks - to show up on device, on the website, or in press/security announcements. That’s a problem if you care about patching quickly, staying secure, or just being ahead.

So we built earlynotify.com

What it does

EarlyNotify monitors Apple’s software update servers directly. As soon as a new update hits - whether it’s for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, or watchOS - we alert you. No waiting for late on device update notifications. Just a clean, fast notification to your inbox.

earlynotify example email

How it works

  • You enter your device and email.
  • We monitor Apple’s update catalogs 24/7.
  • The moment something changes for your device, you get notified.

That’s it. No fluff, no spam, no marketing BS.

Open Source: Check out the code on GitHub

Found a bug? Feature idea? Open an issue or drop us a message below. This is just the beginning.

Under the Hood

For the nerds wondering how it's built, we're currently utilising the ipsw.me API for device querying. We are looking at options to bring this in house.

All of this is built using Cloudflare Server-less tech, their generous free tier allows us to run this all at minimal cost. Sadly Cloudflare doesn't offer an email sending solution so we're using AWS SES for this.

Cloudflare Pages - This runs the site earlynotify.com, the dynamic devices list is pulled in via our API as this list does change.

Cloudflare Workers - We currently have a single worker that runs the API. This provides the device list to users to select from, registers new users and checks for new updates.

Cloudflare D1 - A barebones database is running using D1, this keeps track of emails, their subscribed device and the last OS version they were notified for.

Cloudflare KV - This is mostly used for caching ipsw.me API responses so that we don't hammer their servers. We also store our email templates here which is an added bonus, I'm sure there's probably a more profesional way to do this!

We hope you enjoy receiving earlynotify emails as much as we do! Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

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