diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c0ebb2c8f..7607c679d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,20 +14,20 @@ keywords = ["fcm", "firebase", "notification"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [features]
-default = ["native-tls"]
-native-tls = ["reqwest/native-tls"]
-rustls = ["reqwest/rustls-tls"]
-vendored-tls = ["reqwest/native-tls-vendored"]
+default = ["rustls"]
+rustls = ["awc/rustls"]
+openssl = ["awc/openssl"]
+
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 erased-serde = "0.3"
-reqwest = {version = "0.11.0", features = ["json"], default-features=false}
+awc = "3.0.0-beta"
 chrono = "0.4"
 log = "0.4"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 argparse = "0.2.1"
-tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+actix-rt = "2.2.0"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.3"
diff --git a/examples/simple_sender.rs b/examples/simple_sender.rs
index 0256c3e12..185695d38 100644
--- a/examples/simple_sender.rs
+++ b/examples/simple_sender.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ struct CustomData {
     message: &'static str,
 }
 
-#[tokio::main]
+#[actix_rt::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
     pretty_env_logger::init();
 
diff --git a/src/client/mod.rs b/src/client/mod.rs
index debdb5ebe..8c752b453 100644
--- a/src/client/mod.rs
+++ b/src/client/mod.rs
@@ -1,46 +1,35 @@
 pub mod response;
 
+use awc::http::{header::{CONTENT_TYPE, CONTENT_LENGTH, AUTHORIZATION, RETRY_AFTER}, StatusCode};
+
 pub use crate::client::response::*;
 
 use crate::message::Message;
-use reqwest::header::{AUTHORIZATION, CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, RETRY_AFTER};
-use reqwest::{Body, StatusCode};
 
 /// An async client for sending the notification payload.
+#[derive(Default)]
 pub struct Client {
-    http_client: reqwest::Client,
-}
-
-impl Default for Client {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self::new()
-    }
+    http_client: awc::Client,
 }
 
 impl Client {
     /// Get a new instance of Client.
     pub fn new() -> Client {
-        let http_client = reqwest::ClientBuilder::new()
-            .pool_max_idle_per_host(std::usize::MAX)
-            .build()
-            .unwrap();
-
-        Client { http_client }
+        Default::default()
     }
 
     /// Try sending a `Message` to FCM.
     pub async fn send(&self, message: Message<'_>) -> Result<FcmResponse, FcmError> {
         let payload = serde_json::to_vec(&message.body).unwrap();
 
-        let request = self
+        let mut response = self
             .http_client
             .post("https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send")
-            .header(CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json")
-            .header(CONTENT_LENGTH, format!("{}", payload.len() as u64).as_bytes())
-            .header(AUTHORIZATION, format!("key={}", message.api_key).as_bytes())
-            .body(Body::from(payload))
-            .build()?;
-        let response = self.http_client.execute(request).await?;
+            .insert_header((CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"))
+            .insert_header((CONTENT_LENGTH, format!("{}", payload.len() as u64).as_bytes()))
+            .insert_header((AUTHORIZATION, format!("key={}", message.api_key).as_bytes()))
+            .send_body(payload)
+            .await?;
 
         let response_status = response.status();
 
diff --git a/src/client/response.rs b/src/client/response.rs
index 6da22f3b7..670f11fa9 100644
--- a/src/client/response.rs
+++ b/src/client/response.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use awc::error::SendRequestError;
 pub use chrono::{DateTime, Duration, FixedOffset};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::{error::Error, fmt, str::FromStr};
@@ -158,8 +159,8 @@ impl fmt::Display for FcmError {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<reqwest::Error> for FcmError {
-    fn from(_: reqwest::Error) -> Self {
+impl From<SendRequestError> for FcmError {
+    fn from(_: SendRequestError) -> Self {
         Self::ServerError(None)
     }
 }