The short answer
stern, 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
10.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 13.6). Over the last twelve months stern sent 463 notifications, pushing on 34 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 20:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-08-31, with 31 pushes.
The daily clock
All of stern's pushes from the last twelve months, on Germany's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 20:00.
sternpeak 20:004.3% of stern's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the Germany timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 14.8 stern pushes and a weekend day 10.7: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How stern writes a push
| Habit | stern | Germany median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 16 | 20 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 78 | 78 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 1.5% | 1.6% |
| Phrased as a question | 19.7% | 15.1% |
Aggregates over every stern notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Germany apps
Every Germany news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. stern is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  °m News | 4,945 | 13 | 17:00 |
| 2 |  Aachener Zeitung | 4,785 | 17 | 16:00 |
| 3 |  AZ News | 4,384 | 12 | 06:00 |
| 4 |  StN News | 2,975 | 11 | 17:00 |
| 5 |  Tagesspiegel | 2,448 | 9 | 18:00 |
| 6 |  DER SPIEGEL | 2,042 | 8 | 12:00 |
| 7 |  WDR aktuell | 1,597 | 5.0 | 07:00 |
| 8 |  Handelsblatt | 1,190 | 10 | 18:00 |
| 9 |  SZ | 1,035 | 8 | 07:00 |
| 10 |  DW | 906 | 2 | 09:00 |
| 11 |  AZ News | 744 | 4.0 | 06:00 |
| 12 |  LZ/WA | 722 | 5 | 11:00 |
| 13 |  GT/ET | 696 | 5.0 | 18:00 |
| 14 |  StZ | 608 | 7 | 21:00 |
| 15 |  F.A.Z. | 560 | 6.0 | 09:00 |
| 16 | stern | 463 | 10.0 | 20:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 463 notifications stern sent from 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026, stamped in Europe/Berlin local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.