Crypto price alerts, set from how coins actually move

By Gurjeet Singh, developer of CoinPriceAlert · Numbers updated 27 October 2026

Key facts

How often each alert would have fired, last 365 days

Close-to-close moves over the last year. A "firing" is a day whose move exceeded the threshold. Highlighted: the tightest threshold that still fired three times a month or fewer. 365 trading days measured; updated 27 October 2026.

What threshold a crypto alert should use

This is the question every alert app leaves you to guess at. Bitcoin moved about 1.19% on a typical day over the last year and more than 3.53% on one day in ten. A 1% alert therefore fires most days and trains you to swipe it away; a 5% alert fired roughly 1.4 times a month, which is rare enough that you still open it. The table above is recomputed hourly from real closes, so it reflects the regime the market is in now rather than a number from a textbook.

Altcoins need wider thresholds than Bitcoin, not the same one. Solana and most large caps move noticeably more on a typical day, so a threshold that is rare for Bitcoin is routine for them — which is exactly how a useful alert turns into noise you ignore.

Five kinds of crypto alert, and when each earns its place

A price alert is the obvious one: you name a level and we watch it. A percentage alert is better when you care about a move rather than a number, and it can measure over an hour or a day. A trailing stop follows a coin up and only fires on the way back down, so a winner keeps running and you still hear about the reversal — almost nothing else in this category offers it. A volume alert fires when a coin trades two, three or five times its usual volume, which is often the first sign something is happening, before the price shows it. An RSI alert tells you when a coin crosses into overbought or oversold.

Repeat alerts behave the way people expect and most apps get wrong. An alert at $0.16 fires once, stays quiet while the price runs to $0.20, and fires again only after the price crosses back down and crosses $0.16 again — not every hour while the price sits above the line. Switch on rebasing and each new alert measures from where the last one fired, so "every further 10%" means exactly that.

Why crypto alerts stop working, and how this app handles it

The most common complaint about every alert app in this category is the same: the alerts quietly stopped and nobody said anything. It is almost never the alert engine. It is a link further down the chain — notification permission revoked months later, a push token the provider retired, battery optimisation holding notifications back on Android — and each of those fails silently, so you find out by missing a trade.

This app checks the whole chain and tells you which link is broken, with a one-tap fix beside it. You can also see exactly when our servers last checked your alerts, down to the second. That is a strange thing for an app to show you, and it exists because the alternative is silence that is indistinguishable from a broken service.

How to set a crypto price alert

Open the app, search for a coin, and tap the bell on its row — or open the coin and use Set price alert. Choose a price, a percentage, a trailing stop, a volume multiple or an RSI level, pick push, Telegram or both, and optionally a quiet window so nothing wakes you at 3am. No account is required to start; add an email later only if you want your alerts to follow you to a new phone.

Alerts are evaluated on our servers from that moment on, whether the app is open, closed or swiped away. Add the home screen widget to keep up to six coins in view without opening anything at all.

A crypto alert app versus exchange alerts

Binance, Coinbase and Kraken all offer price alerts, and they are free and reliable — for coins listed on that exchange, delivered to that exchange app. If you hold across several venues, or watch coins your exchange does not list, you end up with alerts in three apps and no single list. This app watches the market quote for more than a thousand coins regardless of where you trade, and puts stocks, gold and forex in the same watchlist. It also never asks for an exchange key, a wallet connection or a payment method to watch a price, because watching a price does not require any of them.

Three alerts worth setting

• Bitcoin rises above $82,060
• Bitcoin falls below $77,280
• Bitcoin moves 5% in 24 hours

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Frequently asked questions

Other alert pages

• Gold price alerts, with the numbers that set the threshold
• Silver price alerts that fire on the days that matter
• Crude oil price alerts for WTI and Brent
• Forex rate alerts for the pairs that move your money
• Stock price alerts in the same app as your crypto
• Crypto price alerts delivered to Telegram
• Percentage change alerts, sized from real volatility
• Bulk market alerts: one rule, hundreds of coins
• Coinbase price alerts, and where they run out
• Price change notifications you keep reading
• Alerts on a timer, and what to use instead

Data: Binance daily candles for the last year, recomputed on a schedule. Nothing here is financial advice. Never asks for a private key, seed phrase or exchange API key; it holds no keys of any kind, so the app cannot trade or move funds.