Notifee is Archived. Here’s a Maintained, New-Architecture Drop-in Replacement

In December 2024, Notifee stopped receiving updates. In April 2026, Invertase officially archived the repository. If you shipped a React Native app that depended on Notifee’s advanced Android features such as foreground services, rich styles, progress indicators and full-screen intents, this left a real gap with no clean migration path. I ran into that gap directly. My workout tracking app relies on local notifications and foreground-service timers to keep set counters and rest timers running when the screen is off. The official alternative, expo-notifications , doesn’t support foreground services. For this class of apps, there wasn’t a viable replacement. So I forked Notifee, migrated it to React Native’s New Architecture (TurboModules), and started fixing long-standing issues that had accumulated in the upstream tracker. The result is react-native-notify-kit , which Invertase now links from their archived README as a community-maintained drop-in replacement. This post isn’t a catalog