diff --git a/hate_crack.py b/hate_crack.py
index b3366dd..7e190b1 100755
--- a/hate_crack.py
+++ b/hate_crack.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def get_main_menu_options():
         "80": _attacks.wordlist_tools_submenu,
         "81": _attacks.rule_tools_submenu,
         "83": toggle_notifications,
+        "84": test_pushover_notification,
         "90": download_hashmob_rules,
         "91": weakpass_wordlist_menu,
         "92": download_hashmob_wordlists,
diff --git a/hate_crack/main.py b/hate_crack/main.py
index bf8ec24..37f0772 100755
--- a/hate_crack/main.py
+++ b/hate_crack/main.py
@@ -4108,6 +4108,39 @@ def toggle_notifications():
             )
 
 
+def test_pushover_notification():
+    """Send a canned test notification so the user can verify Pushover works.
+
+    Ignores the global ``notify_enabled`` toggle on purpose: the point of the
+    test is to confirm the wire is live, independent of whether attacks are
+    currently wired to notify.  When the global toggle is OFF we still send
+    but print a note so the user is not surprised later.
+    """
+    settings = _notify.get_settings()
+    token = settings.pushover_token
+    user = settings.pushover_user
+    if not token or not user:
+        print(
+            "\n[!] Pushover credentials missing. Set notify_pushover_token "
+            "and notify_pushover_user in config.json."
+        )
+        return
+
+    if not settings.enabled:
+        print("\n(notifications are globally OFF, but sending test anyway)")
+
+    title = "hate_crack: test notification"
+    message = (
+        "This is a test notification from hate_crack. "
+        "If you see this, Pushover is wired up correctly."
+    )
+    ok = _notify._send_pushover(token, user, title, message)
+    if ok:
+        print("[+] Test Pushover notification sent. Check your device.")
+    else:
+        print("[!] Test Pushover notification failed. See log output for details.")
+
+
 def get_main_menu_items():
     """Return ordered (key, label) pairs for the main menu."""
     items = [
@@ -4136,6 +4169,7 @@ def get_main_menu_items():
             "83",
             f"Toggle Pushover Notifications [{'ON' if _notify.get_settings().enabled else 'OFF'}]",
         ),
+        ("84", "Send Test Pushover Notification"),
         ("90", "Download rules from Hashmob.net"),
         ("91", "Analyze Hashcat Rules"),
         ("92", "Download wordlists from Hashmob.net"),
@@ -4180,6 +4214,7 @@ def get_main_menu_options():
         "80": wordlist_tools_submenu,
         "81": rule_tools_submenu,
         "83": toggle_notifications,
+        "84": test_pushover_notification,
         "90": lambda: download_hashmob_rules(rules_dir=rulesDirectory),
         "91": analyze_rules,
         "92": download_hashmob_wordlists,
diff --git a/tests/test_ui_menu_options.py b/tests/test_ui_menu_options.py
index 65a9ecc..df81093 100644
--- a/tests/test_ui_menu_options.py
+++ b/tests/test_ui_menu_options.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ MENU_OPTION_TEST_CASES = [
     ("80", CLI_MODULE._attacks, "wordlist_tools_submenu", "wordlist-tools"),
     ("81", CLI_MODULE._attacks, "rule_tools_submenu", "rule-tools"),
     ("83", CLI_MODULE, "toggle_notifications", "toggle-notifications"),
+    ("84", CLI_MODULE, "test_pushover_notification", "test-pushover"),
     ("90", CLI_MODULE, "download_hashmob_rules", "hashmob-rules"),
     ("91", CLI_MODULE, "weakpass_wordlist_menu", "weakpass-menu"),
     ("92", CLI_MODULE, "download_hashmob_wordlists", "hashmob-wordlists"),
diff --git a/tests/test_ui_test_pushover.py b/tests/test_ui_test_pushover.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5b43b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_ui_test_pushover.py
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+"""Unit tests for main.test_pushover_notification().
+
+These tests patch ``hate_crack.main._notify`` directly rather than
+``hate_crack.notify._send_pushover``.  The latter is fragile because
+``tests/test_random_rules_attack.py`` purges ``hate_crack.*`` from
+``sys.modules`` and re-imports, which leaves ``main._notify`` pointing
+at a different module object than the one a top-level ``patch`` would
+touch.  Patching the attribute on ``main`` itself is robust to that.
+
+We use ``patch.object(hc_main, "_notify")`` rather than
+``patch("hate_crack.main._notify")`` so the patch target is the exact
+module object whose function we invoke.  A string target would re-resolve
+``hate_crack.main`` through ``sys.modules``, which — again thanks to the
+purge in ``test_random_rules_attack.py`` — can be a different object from
+the ``hc_main`` reference bound at test-module import time.
+"""
+
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from hate_crack import main as hc_main
+
+
+def _settings(
+    *, enabled: bool = True, token: str = "tok", user: str = "usr"
+) -> SimpleNamespace:
+    """Minimal stand-in for ``NotifySettings`` — we only read three fields."""
+    return SimpleNamespace(enabled=enabled, pushover_token=token, pushover_user=user)
+
+
+class TestTestPushoverNotification:
+    def test_success_prints_confirmation_and_sends(self, capsys):
+        with patch.object(hc_main, "_notify") as mock_notify:
+            mock_notify.get_settings.return_value = _settings(enabled=True)
+            mock_notify._send_pushover.return_value = True
+            hc_main.test_pushover_notification()
+        mock_notify._send_pushover.assert_called_once()
+        args = mock_notify._send_pushover.call_args.args
+        assert args[0] == "tok"
+        assert args[1] == "usr"
+        assert args[2] == "hate_crack: test notification"
+        assert "test notification from hate_crack" in args[3]
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "[+] Test Pushover notification sent" in out
+
+    def test_failure_prints_failure_line(self, capsys):
+        with patch.object(hc_main, "_notify") as mock_notify:
+            mock_notify.get_settings.return_value = _settings(enabled=True)
+            mock_notify._send_pushover.return_value = False
+            hc_main.test_pushover_notification()
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "[!] Test Pushover notification failed" in out
+
+    def test_missing_token_skips_send_and_warns(self, capsys):
+        with patch.object(hc_main, "_notify") as mock_notify:
+            mock_notify.get_settings.return_value = _settings(enabled=True, token="")
+            hc_main.test_pushover_notification()
+        mock_notify._send_pushover.assert_not_called()
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "[!] Pushover credentials missing" in out
+        assert "notify_pushover_token" in out
+
+    def test_missing_user_skips_send_and_warns(self, capsys):
+        with patch.object(hc_main, "_notify") as mock_notify:
+            mock_notify.get_settings.return_value = _settings(enabled=True, user="")
+            hc_main.test_pushover_notification()
+        mock_notify._send_pushover.assert_not_called()
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "[!] Pushover credentials missing" in out
+
+    def test_globally_off_still_sends_with_note(self, capsys):
+        with patch.object(hc_main, "_notify") as mock_notify:
+            mock_notify.get_settings.return_value = _settings(enabled=False)
+            mock_notify._send_pushover.return_value = True
+            hc_main.test_pushover_notification()
+        mock_notify._send_pushover.assert_called_once()
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "notifications are globally OFF" in out
+        assert "[+] Test Pushover notification sent" in out