Shortcuts (Quick Open) vs PushBack Notifications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
Access your most used applications instantly from various convenient locations. Launch apps directly from your lock screen, a dedicated widget, or through a long-press on their icons. Supports a wide range of system and third-party applications for rapid access.
- Launch apps from lock screen
- Today View widget shortcuts
- Haptic touch app icon shortcuts
- System app shortcuts
- Third-party app shortcuts
- Quick call to contacts
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Quickly open your favorite apps using Shortcuts! Open apps directly from the lock screen, the Today View widget, or via Haptic touch on the app icon Currently featuring shortcuts to: (System) -App Store -Calendar -iBooks -Mail -Maps -Music -Notes -Phone (choose a contact to quick call) -Photos -Podcasts -Safari (3rd Party) -Amazon -Amazon Music -Audible -Box -Dropbox -Evernote -Facebook -Facebook Messenger -Fitbit -Google -Google Calendar -Google Chrome -Google Drive -Google Gmail -Google Hangouts -Google Maps -Google Photos -HBO GO -Instagram -KakaoTalk -Kindle -Line -LinkedIn -Lyft -Netflix -Outlook -Pinterest -Pokemon Go -Reddit -Skype -Slack -Snapchat -SoundCloud -Spotify -Square Cash -Telegram -TikTok -Tinder -Twitter -Uber -Venmo -Waze -WeChat -WhatsApp -Yahoo Finance -Yahoo Weather -Yelp -Youtube -YouTube Music -Zoom
PushBack Notifications
Receive and interact with notifications directly from your iPhone. This API allows for actionable notifications with buttons and reply fields, enabling server and script interaction without opening the app. It supports synchronous responses and custom callback URLs for seamless integration.
- Actionable notifications with buttons
- Reply textbox for direct input
- Synchronous interaction with servers
- Customizable response callbacks
- Quick setup with curl
- No registration required
- Multi-user invites
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Send Notifications Pushback lets you receive interactive notifications on your iPhone. A notification can have actions, such as buttons or a reply textbox, which allows you to interact with your servers, scripts, applications, etc., without even opening the app. Synchronous Interactions When you send a notification with our API, Pushback can keep the connection open, waiting for the user's interaction. Once they have hit a button, the response is delivered to your request, useful for quick prototypes or cron jobs. Response Callbacks Pushback can send responses from your notifications to a server via a callback URL. The responses can be customized to only send the data you are interested in. Quick Setup Install the app and use curl. That's it. Hassle free No registration required. Try it out and sign up later. Multiple Users Invite friends and coworkers to receive notications with a link. Contact Send questions or any issues to support@pushback.io Privacy Policy - https://pushback.io/privacy.html Terms of Use - https://pushback.io/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PushBack Notifications at 100% against Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s 16%. PushBack Notifications also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.9) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Shortcuts (Quick Open) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PushBack Notifications sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $15.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PushBack Notifications holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortcuts (Quick Open) has 1.9K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s written reviews are positive against 100% of PushBack Notifications's.
Shortcuts (Quick Open) ships an update every 4 months, PushBack Notifications monthly. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Shortcuts (Quick Open) | PushBack Notifications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.9K ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Fang | PlainIce LLC |
Customer experience
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
PushBack Notifications
Bugs and requests
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incompatible with latest iOS version
- Google Maps shortcut keeps crashing
- Can't add shortcuts to home screen
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to create custom app shortcuts
- Improve instructions and tutorials
- Integrate with more third-party apps
- Allow adding widgets to home screen
PushBack Notifications
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
- Upgrade$0.99
PushBack Notifications
- Unlimited Messages$15.991 Year
Questions
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