Picture this: Bitcoin is in the middle of a wild 15% swing, your target price just got hit, and you're... asleep. Or stuck in a meeting. Or just living your life like a normal person who can't stare at charts 24/7.
That scenario plays out for crypto traders every single day. And honestly, it's not a discipline problem — it's a tooling problem. You need something watching the market for you.
That's the whole pitch behind Cryptocurrency Alerting, a dedicated alert platform that's been quietly building a solid reputation among traders who actually want to, you know, do other things sometimes.
It's not a trading bot. It's not a portfolio tracker. It's not trying to be everything at once.
Cryptocurrency Alerting does one thing and does it well: it watches the market around the clock and pings you the moment something happens that you actually care about. Price hitting a target. A new coin getting listed. A whale wallet moving funds. ETH gas dropping low enough to make a transaction worthwhile.
👉 Set up your first free alert right now
The platform monitors over 20,000 cryptocurrencies across 30+ exchanges — including Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Uniswap, KuCoin, BitMEX, and Bitfinex. That's a lot of ground to cover, and they cover it in near-real-time, typically within 15 to 25 seconds of a price event.
Most people come in thinking "oh, it's just a price alert app." And then they poke around and realize they've been underselling it.
Here's what you can actually track:
Market Alerts
Price Alerts — Classic. Set a target, get notified above or below it. Works across every major exchange.
Percentage / Volatility Alerts — Useful when you care about big moves, not just specific prices. A 10% swing in an hour means something; a flat $500 price point might mean less.
Volume Alerts — Unusual trading volume often precedes price action. This catches it early.
Funding Rate Alerts — Handy for futures traders watching leverage sentiment in the market.
Periodic Price Alerts — Get a price update delivered at a regular interval you define, no trigger required.
Market Cap & BTC Dominance Alerts — For macro-level market watchers.
On-Chain Alerts
Wallet Watch — Track any BTC, ETH, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Tron, or Base wallet address. Get notified when funds move in or out. Great for watching your own wallets or monitoring known addresses.
Wallet Balance Alerts — Get pinged when a wallet drops below a minimum threshold.
Whale Alerts (Beta) — Large transactions happening on-chain get flagged. If a whale is moving, you'll know.
ETH Gas Price Alerts — ETH fees are unpredictable. Set an alert for when gas drops below your threshold so you can transact at the right time.
Bitcoin Mempool Alerts — For Bitcoin transactions, mempool congestion is the bottleneck. This watches it for you.
Blockchain Metric Alerts — Block height, mining difficulty, and other on-chain data points.
Exchange Listing Alerts
This one's interesting. New coin listings on major exchanges often cause significant price spikes in the first minutes of trading. Being first to know can matter a lot. Cryptocurrency Alerting monitors exchanges in real time and notifies you the moment a new listing is detected.
Stock & ETF Alerts
Newer addition, but a meaningful one: they now cover price and volatility alerts for over 10,000 stocks and ETFs. If you're a trader who moves between crypto and traditional markets, this is a nice feature to have in a single dashboard.
This is where Cryptocurrency Alerting separates itself from exchange-native alert tools.
Most exchanges send alerts only through their own app. Cryptocurrency Alerting sends them through basically everything:
Email — Simple, reliable, works for everyone.
SMS (Text Message) — Direct to your phone. US/Canada coverage on paid plans; international SMS on Pro.
Phone Call — An automated call that reads your alert aloud. For when you need to be certain you won't miss something.
Push Notifications — Via their iOS and Android apps.
Browser Notifications — Even when the tab is closed.
Telegram Bot — The most popular option for active crypto traders. Clean, instant, and works in groups too.
Discord Bot — Pipe alerts directly into your server or a private channel.
Slack Bot — For teams or anyone who lives in Slack.
Webhook — For developers who want to programmatically react to alerts and chain them into other automations.
👉 Start with a free account and explore the notification options
Nine delivery methods is a lot. Most people will pick two or three and stick with them, but the flexibility is there when you need it.
Let's talk money.
Hobby (Free)
The free plan gives you 3 active alerts and up to 10 notifications. It's enough to test the platform and get a feel for how alerts work in practice. Not enough for serious trading, but a solid starting point.
Trader — $7.99/month (or $3.99/month billed annually)
20 active alerts, unlimited notifications, all premium features unlocked. The annual plan cuts the price in half — $47.88 per year versus $95.88. For casual-to-moderate traders, this is the sweet spot.
👉 Grab the Trader plan at $3.99/month with annual billing
Pro — $39.99/month (or $19.99/month billed annually)
120 active alerts, unlimited notifications, priority customer support, branding removed from alerts, and international SMS and phone calls. The annual deal brings it to $239.88 per year. For active traders running multiple strategies, this is where the capacity starts to match the need.
Business — $99/month (or $49/month billed annually)
300 active alerts, zero rate-limiting, webhook support, everything in Pro. $588 per year on the annual plan. Built for power users, teams, and anyone running alert-heavy operations.
One thing worth noting: they accept crypto payments. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Solana, BNB, USDT, USDC — you can pay for a yearly subscription directly in crypto via Coinbase Commerce or by sending directly to their wallet address. It's a logical move for a crypto-native tool.
The reviews on the App Store and Google Play tend to cluster around a few common themes.
Users consistently mention the breadth of alert types as a standout — the fact that you're not limited to price alerts, but can track listings, wallets, gas fees, and more from a single interface. The notification delivery is praised as reliable and consistent across channels. Several reviewers specifically called out the responsive customer support, including one who noted that after writing in to request a missing token, the team added it within 48 hours.
The more critical feedback tends to focus on app-side login persistence on mobile — some users have reported being logged out unexpectedly, though the team notes that you don't actually need to stay logged in to continue receiving alerts.
Overall sentiment from Product Hunt and app store aggregators is clearly positive, with particular praise for dependability during volatile market conditions — which is exactly when you need alerts to work.
Cryptocurrency Alerting is a good fit for a pretty wide range of people:
DeFi traders who need wallet monitoring and ETH gas alerts alongside price tracking. Managing multiple wallets across chains is easier when you're not manually checking everything.
Swing traders who aren't glued to charts all day. Set your levels, go about your life, and get a call or message when something actually happens.
Listing hunters who want to catch new exchange listings early. The real-time listing detection is one of the more differentiated features here.
Developers and power users who want to integrate crypto market events into their own systems. The webhook support and developer API open up a lot of automation possibilities.
Anyone managing serious crypto holdings who wants a second set of eyes on wallet activity. Knowing immediately when funds move — especially unexpectedly — is genuinely useful.
This isn't an analysis platform or trading signals service. It doesn't tell you what to do — it tells you when something happened so you can decide. If you're looking for AI-driven trade recommendations or technical indicator alerts (RSI levels, MACD crossovers), this isn't that tool.
What it does, it does well. The scope is intentional rather than a gap.
Crypto moves fast. The edge often goes to whoever acts first, and acting first requires knowing first.
Cryptocurrency Alerting has built a platform that does this competently, with real depth across alert types and notification channels, a reasonable free tier for getting started, and pricing that doesn't require a second mortgage to actually use the good features.
The free plan is genuinely usable as a starting point. The annual Trader plan at $3.99/month is probably the best value proposition for most individual traders.
👉 Sign up free and set your first alert
If you've been relying on exchange-native alerts that only ping you inside a single app, or you've been trying to manually watch charts across multiple platforms, a dedicated alerting tool is an upgrade worth making.
All pricing information is based on currently published rates. Annual billing offers 50% savings versus monthly pricing.