Price change notifications you keep reading
A price change notification service watches a market you cannot watch continuously and messages you when a condition you set is met. The hard part is not creating the alert, it is keeping the set of them worth reading: an alert that fires on an ordinary day trains you to dismiss the one that matters. CoinPriceAlert evaluates alerts on its servers, delivers to push or Telegram, holds anything that fires inside your quiet hours, and sizes thresholds from a year of real daily closes — Bitcoin moved about 1.19% on a typical day, so a 5% alert fired roughly 1.4 times a month.
Key facts
| What it does | Watches prices continuously and notifies you when your condition is met |
|---|---|
| Where it runs | On our servers, so nothing depends on the app being open or the phone being awake |
| Conditions | A price level, a percentage move over 24 hours, or over 1 hour on Pro; repeat alerts that re-arm when price crosses back |
| Delivery | Push notification, Telegram or email, in any combination, with quiet hours that hold anything fired overnight |
| Managing a set | A daily digest at an hour you choose, a history of what fired, and bulk rules that scan a segment on Pro |
| Cost | Free plan includes 3 active alerts; Pro is $6.99 a month for unlimited |
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 fired over the last year, from Binance daily closes. Read it as a notification budget: the row you pick is roughly how many messages a month you are signing up for. Highlighted: the tightest threshold that still fired three times a month or fewer. 365 trading days measured; updated 27 October 2026.
The only number that matters: how often it fires
Every notification service can tell you when Bitcoin crosses a price. What separates a useful one from a nuisance is whether you still read the messages after a month. That is decided before you set the alert, by the threshold. Over the last year Bitcoin’s typical day was about 1.19%; a 1% alert would have fired on most of them. The table above turns that into a budget — choose the row whose frequency you would genuinely tolerate, not the number that sounds dramatic.
The same logic explains a request we see often, an alert for a fixed dollar drop such as 500 USDT. On a $100,000 Bitcoin that is a 0.5% move, well inside an ordinary day, so it fires constantly; on a $20,000 Bitcoin it is 2.5% and genuinely rare. A fixed cash amount silently changes meaning as the price moves, which is why a percentage, or a price level you re-set deliberately, ages better.
Managing a set of alerts rather than one
Alert management becomes a real problem at about the tenth alert. Four habits keep a large set readable. Give every alert an action you would take if it fired, and delete the ones with no answer. Keep levels rare enough that firing is information. Put the routine monitoring in a daily digest at a fixed hour instead of individual alerts. And audit the history every few weeks: an alert that has fired three times without changing anything you did is costing you the attention the next one needs.
The mechanics should support that. Alerts here carry a note so you remember why you set one, they re-arm only if you asked them to, quiet hours hold overnight firings rather than dropping them, and the history shows what actually fired so an audit takes a minute rather than an evening.
Why server-side evaluation matters
A notification that depends on an app being open is not a notification service, it is a chart you left running. Alerts here are evaluated on our servers against public market data, so they fire with the app closed, the phone locked, or the device replaced. Delivery is push, Telegram, or both, because the channel you will actually read differs from person to person and a muted phone should not cost you the alert.
There is nothing sensitive in the loop. Alerts are computed from public prices, so the system never needs an exchange login, an API key, a wallet address or a seed phrase, and therefore has none to lose.
Three alerts worth setting
- Bitcoin moves 5% in 24 hours → Telegram
- Bitcoin falls below $77,280 → push, with a note saying why
- Daily digest at 8am instead of ten separate alerts
Never miss a move in Price change notifications you keep reading
Set a price or percentage alert once and get a push notification the moment it triggers — free, with quiet hours so nothing wakes you at 3am.
- Fires about a second after the price hits
- Runs on our servers, so it reaches you with the app closed
- Free for 3 alerts — no card, no account
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Frequently asked questions
What is a bitcoin price change notification service?
A service that watches the price continuously and messages you when your condition is met — a level, or a percentage move over a window. CoinPriceAlert evaluates alerts on its servers and delivers to push or Telegram, so nothing depends on the app being open.
Can I get an alert for a fixed dollar drop, like 500 USDT?
You can set a price level, which is the equivalent. Be aware that a fixed cash amount means different things at different prices: 500 USDT is 0.5% of a $100,000 Bitcoin but 2.5% of a $20,000 one. A percentage alert keeps the same meaning as the price changes.
How many alerts is too many?
The limit is not a number, it is whether you still read them. If you dismiss alerts without opening them, the set is too large or the thresholds are too tight. A watchlist of four alerts you always act on beats forty you have learned to ignore.
What threshold should I use?
Use the table above and pick the row that fires two or three times a month. For Bitcoin that is around 5%, which fired about 1.4 times a month over the last year.
Do alerts work when the app is closed?
Yes. They are evaluated on our servers, not on your device, and arrive as a push notification or a Telegram message. Quiet hours hold anything that fires overnight and log it in the app instead.
Is there a free plan?
Yes — 3 active alerts, push and Telegram delivery, quiet hours and the daily digest, with no card. Pro removes the alert limit for $6.99 a month.
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Other alert pages
- Crypto price alerts, set from how coins actually move
- 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
- 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.