Set up in under a minute.
Paste a URL, pick your schedule, done. Patchday handles everything from there.
Add the apps you run
Paste a GitHub URL. No OAuth dance, no GitHub App install, no permissions to approve. Track up to 5 apps for free.
Patchday watches every release
When a new release drops, Patchday reads the full release notes and writes a plain-English summary of what actually changed.
You get your briefing
On your schedule, one digest lands with everything that shipped. Read it in two minutes. Stay current all week.
What's in your briefing?
Every briefing surfaces the three things that actually decide whether tonight is a patch night.
Start tracking freeBreaking changes flagged
Updates that could break your setup are called out clearly so you can read the migration notes before touching anything.
Features worth noting
Plain-English summaries of what actually shipped, without the internal ticket IDs and dependency noise.
How far behind you are
For each app, you can see how many versions you've missed so you can prioritize what to update first.
Everything that makes it work.
The supporting capabilities behind every briefing.
One digest, everything you track
Instead of a flood of per-release emails, Patchday batches everything into a single briefing on the schedule you choose: weekly or monthly.
Pre-release filtering
Opt in to alphas, betas, and release candidates, or keep your dashboard and notifications focused on stable updates only.
No GitHub App or OAuth
Paste the URL, done. Patchday reads public release data and asks for nothing else. No permissions to approve, no access to grant.
Push notifications via ntfy
Get an alert shortly after a release drops, checked every 15 minutes. Works with your own self-hosted ntfy server as well as ntfy.sh. No third-party cloud required, no account to create.
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Why not just use...?
Fair question. GitHub Watch, NewReleases.io and RSS feeds tell you that a release shipped, and NewReleases.io covers more sources and channels than Patchday does. Patchday tells you what a release means for the version you run.
| Feature | Patchday | GitHub Watch | NewReleases.io | RSS feeds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upgrade guide from the version you run | Yes | No | No | No |
| Plain-English release summaries | Yes | No | No | No |
| Email digest | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Pre-release filtering | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Releases from GitLab, npm, PyPI or Docker Hub | No | No | Yes | Partial: Where a feed exists |
| Alerts via Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhooks | No | No | Yes | No |
| Free for any number of projects | Partial: Up to 5 apps | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Free for 5 apps. Pro when your stack grows.
Both plans get the full briefing. Pro lets you track up to 50 apps.
Pro
Coming soon€48 / year
or €5 / month, incl. VAT
Up to 50 apps
Outside the EU: $48 / year or $5 / month plus tax.
Every plan includes
- Plain-English release summaries
- Upgrade guide from the version you run
- Weekly or monthly Patch Day briefing
- Push notifications via ntfy
- Pre-release filtering
I built Patchday because I was tired of opening a dozen release pages every Sunday before touching my homelab.
Every week I'd tab through GitHub, check each app manually, try to remember which version I was running, and decide whether tonight was worth it. Half the time I gave up and left things un-patched. Once I missed a breaking Immich update and had to restore from backup. That was the last time.
Patchday is early, five apps are free, and there are no fake reviews on this page. Just the thing I wanted to exist.
Jonas
Building Patchday
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