Notification Receiver vs Hermes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notification Receiver
This utility ensures notifications are delivered reliably through multiple channels. It presents these notifications to the user with customizable priority options.
- Multiple notification delivery paths
- Guaranteed notification delivery
- User-facing notification display
- Priority-based notification options
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Receives notifications over several paths therefore ensuring delivery. Notifications are displayed to the end-user with different options for different priorities
Hermes
This app forwards notifications from your Mac to your iPhone using a cloud-based service. It offers an easy-to-use API and a dedicated email address for integration into automated workflows. Customize forwarding rules to filter notifications and ensure only important alerts reach your device.
- Mac to iPhone notification forwarding
- Cloud-based service
- Easy-to-use API
- Dedicated email address for integration
- Customizable forwarding rules
- Smart filtering per app
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Hermes was a Greek deity who served as a messenger of the gods using his winged sandles to move freely between the worlds of the mortals and the devine. The Hermes app, on the other hand, is a service that uses the cloud to move notifications from the world of your Mac to that of your iPhone. Hermes offers an easy to use API, and a user specific e-mail address that makes it easy to integrate Hermes into whatever automated workflow you might be using. You don't have to worry about notifications over burdening you with Hermes's forwarding rules. Only forward notifications from the apps you want, and even set up smart rules per app so only the important stuff gets through. Hermes Terms Of Service: https://funk-isoft.com/tos-hermes.html Hermes Privacy Policy: https://funk-isoft.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hermes at 3.0 against Notification Receiver's 1.0. Hermes also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Notification Receiver's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 11 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Hermes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Notification Receiver asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hermes holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Notification Receiver ships an update every 5 weeks, Hermes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notification Receiver | Hermes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New Bridges | Funk-iSoft LLC |
Customer experience
Notification Receiver
Hermes
In-app purchases
Notification Receiver
No in-app purchases
Hermes
- Monthly Subscription$0.491 Month
- Semi-Annual Subscription$2.496 Months
- Annual Subscription$3.991 Year
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