# Push Notifications API

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## Overview

The Push Notifications API lets you send push notifications to Android devices, Apple devices, and web browsers through a single API. It supports the following platform-specific messaging services:

* **Android and all web browsers (including Safari)**: Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
* **iOS devices**: Apple Push Notification service (APNs)

You can send personalized notifications to up to 10,000 recipients in a single request, with a mix of APNs and FCM recipients.

## How it works

1. **Obtain and upload credentials** from [FCM](/docs/push-notifications/fcm-credentials), [APNs](/docs/push-notifications/apn-credentials), or both.
2. **Send notifications** to one or many recipients with a single API request. See [Send a push notification](/docs/push-notifications/send-a-push).

## Next steps

* Learn how to [send a push notification](/docs/push-notifications/send-a-push).
* Set up [FCM credentials](/docs/push-notifications/fcm-credentials) for Android and all web browsers, including Safari.
* Set up [APNs credentials](/docs/push-notifications/apn-credentials) for iOS devices.
* Learn to [register a device](/docs/push-notifications/device-registration).