i3 CMS vs Protect Notify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
i3 CMS
This business intelligence tool analyzes sales data and video surveillance to identify loss, theft, and sales opportunities. It provides user-friendly reports and an online interface to help businesses improve key performance indicators and implement retail best practices.
- Multi-level data correlations
- Sales opportunity identification
- Loss and theft detection
- User-friendly reports
- Online web interface
- Leverages video surveillance
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Cloud Managed Services or CMS is i3's engine for business insights. It utilizes i3 Video Analytics technology and point of sales information providing multi-level data correlations. This information will identify sales opportunities and is able to identify loss and theft within a business. Utilizing user-friendly reports and an easy to use online web interface i3 customers can form effective strategies to improve their key performance indicators and follow retail business best practices. CMS by i3 allows users to leverage their current investment in a video surveillance system and turn it into a cost-effective capable of detecting and deterring loss and identifying new sales opportunities.
Protect Notify
Manage Protect Server alerts, users, organizations, and roles. View notifications, set up escalations, and engage in conversations. Access basic server assets like locations and cameras.
- Manage users, organizations, groups, and roles
- Dashboard view of notifications
- Notification escalations
- Notification conversations and commenting
- View server assets (locations, cameras)
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Koshee Protect Notify allows users and organizations to manage their Protect Server alerts as they come in and their organization's locatons, users, and roles. Features include: - Manage users, organizations, groups, and roles - Dashboard view of notifications by status and the setup of the Protect Server - Escalations of notifications to escalation groups - Notification conversations and commenting - View basic server assets such as locations and cameras
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Protect Notify at weekly against i3 CMS's every 3 months. i3 CMS's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.5). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for i3 CMS against 5.0 for Protect Notify. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i3 CMS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
i3 CMS ships an update every 3 months, Protect Notify weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | i3 CMS | Protect Notify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | i3 International Inc. | Koshee |
Customer experience
i3 CMS
Protect Notify
In-app purchases
i3 CMS
No in-app purchases
Protect Notify
No in-app purchases
