Alerts on a timer, and what to use instead
CoinPriceAlert does not send alerts on a fixed timer, and that is deliberate rather than a gap we are apologising for. An alert every 2 hours is twelve messages a day, of which roughly eleven say nothing happened: Bitcoin moved about 1.19% on a typical day over the last year, so most two-hour windows contain noise. The two features that serve the same intent are a daily digest at an hour you choose, and a repeat alert that re-arms and fires again whenever the price crosses your level — so you hear from it when something moved, not when the clock ticked.
Key facts
| Fixed-interval alerts | Not offered here, by design — see below for why |
|---|---|
| Daily digest | One message at an hour you choose, covering your whole watchlist, on the free plan |
| Repeat alerts | Re-arm after firing, so a level can trigger again on the next crossing |
| Percentage alerts | Fire on a move over 24 hours, or over 1 hour on Pro, rather than on a timer |
| Quiet hours | Hold anything that fires overnight and log it, instead of waking you |
| Widget | A home screen widget for when you simply want the current price on demand |
How often each alert would have fired, last 365 days
| Asset | Typical day | 1 day in 10 | Largest day | 2% alert fires / month | 3% alert fires / month | 5% alert fires / month | 8% alert fires / month | 10% alert fires / month | 15% alert fires / month | 20% alert fires / month | 25% alert fires / month | 30% alert fires / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | 1.19% | 3.53% | 14.02% | 8.1 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ethereum | 1.48% | 4.92% | 17.46% | 11.8 | 7.4 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Solana | 1.75% | 5.3% | 14.95% | 13.5 | 9.5 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How often each 24-hour threshold actually fired over the last year, from Binance daily closes. Compare any row with the twelve messages a day a two-hour timer would send. Highlighted: the tightest threshold that still fired three times a month or fewer. 365 trading days measured; updated 27 October 2026.
What an alert every 2 hours actually delivers
Twelve notifications a day. Three hundred and sixty a month. Bitcoin moved about 1.19% on a typical day over the last year, and a two-hour slice of that is usually a fraction of a percent — so the overwhelming majority of those messages report that nothing has happened. That is not a small annoyance. It is the mechanism by which you stop reading the notification, and the cost lands on the day the price does move.
The request is reasonable, though, and it is worth naming what is behind it. People asking for a two-hour alert usually want one of three things: reassurance that they have not missed a move, a periodic figure for a spreadsheet or a journal, or a way to watch a position during a volatile stretch. A timer is a poor instrument for all three, but each has a better one.
The three real needs, and what serves each
If you want reassurance you have not missed anything, use a percentage alert. It is silent precisely when nothing has happened, which is the condition you were trying to confirm — silence is the reassurance, and it costs you no attention. Size it from the table above: on Bitcoin, a 5% alert fired about 1.4 times a month over the last year.
If you want a periodic figure, use the daily digest. One message at an hour you choose, covering the whole watchlist, is a better record than twelve fragments and it does not interrupt you. If you want the number on demand rather than pushed, the home screen widget shows it without a notification at all.
If you are watching a position through a volatile stretch, set levels rather than a timer: a price you would act on above, a price you would act on below, and a repeat alert so the level re-arms if it crosses back. That is the two-hour check you were going to do anyway, except it only happens when it would have told you something.
When a timer genuinely is the right answer
There is one case, and it is worth being straight about it: if you need a regular reading regardless of whether it changed — for a log, a report, or a dataset — then you want sampling, not alerting. A digest covers the daily version of that. For anything finer, a price API and a scheduled job is the correct tool, and no alert app is a good substitute for it. We would rather say so than sell you twelve notifications a day that you will mute within a week.
Three alerts worth setting
- Daily digest at 8am, whole watchlist, one message
- Bitcoin moves 5% in 24 hours → push or Telegram
- Bitcoin falls below $77,280, repeating, so it re-arms on the next crossing
Never miss a move in the markets you follow
Name the price that would change your mind, set it once, and get told when it happens rather than watching a chart for it.
- Fires about a second after the price hits
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Frequently asked questions
Can I get a Bitcoin price alert every 2 hours?
Not from CoinPriceAlert — there is no fixed-interval alert, deliberately. A two-hour timer sends twelve messages a day, and Bitcoin moved about 1.19% on a typical day last year, so most of them would report nothing. Use a percentage alert, a daily digest, or the home screen widget instead.
What is the closest thing to a scheduled alert?
The daily digest: one message at an hour you choose, covering your whole watchlist. It is on the free plan and it replaces routine checking without interrupting you twelve times a day.
What is a repeat alert?
An alert that re-arms after it fires, so if the price crosses your level again it notifies you again. It is the right tool for watching a level over a volatile stretch, because it responds to the price rather than to the clock.
I want a reading every 2 hours for a spreadsheet. What should I use?
That is sampling rather than alerting, and an alert app is the wrong tool. A price API on a scheduled job is the right one. The daily digest covers the once-a-day version.
Does the 1-hour percentage alert work like a timer?
No. The Pro 1-hour pump alert measures the move over the past hour and only fires if that move exceeds your threshold. It is silent on quiet hours rather than reporting hourly.
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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.