Bark vs Just Notify!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bark
Send custom push notifications to your iPhone via an HTTP API. Supports advanced features like custom icons, grouping, and critical alerts. Offers privacy-protected, end-to-end encrypted pushes with self-deployable server options.
- HTTP API for push notifications
- Custom icons and grouping
- Continuous and critical alerts
- End-to-end push encryption
- Self-deployable server options
- Privacy-protected notifications
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You can send push notifications to your iPhone by simply calling an HTTP API. Bark supports many advanced iOS push features, such as custom icons, notification grouping, custom ringtones, continuous alerts, critical alerts, and encrypted pushes. Bark does not consume device battery, as its core functionality relies on system push services and push extensions, and the app itself does not need to be running. Bark ensures your privacy and security with high reliability. Bark supports self-deploying the server, which can be deployed via Docker, Serverless, or Cloudflare Worker. The bark-server supports most operating systems, and you can also run it manually. The app is compiled and uploaded through Github Action, ensuring that the version you’re using is compiled from open-source code, without any modifications by anyone (including the author). Bark supports end-to-end push encryption with a custom key, ensuring that the push content is not accessed or leaked by the Bark server or Apple’s APNs server during transmission. The notification message history saved locally by Bark is also very secure. Using the NotificationServiceExtension, the push message is only stored on the device when the push is received. Feedback email: to@day.app Privacy Policy: https://api.day.app/privacy User Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Just Notify!
This app allows you to set reminders and notifications without using your calendar. It specializes in managing notifications triggered by specific dates, times, intervals, or locations, making it easy to remember tasks or events.
- Set notifications without calendar
- Trigger by date and time
- Trigger by interval
- Trigger by location
- Include title, text, and image
- Repeat notifications
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Use notifications instead of notes! This application can send notifications without calendar app. Specializes in managing notifications only, so you can easily set up notifications. Notifications can be sent at specified dates, times, intervals, and locations. [Useful at times like this] - Notify to buy medicine when you approach the pharmacy. - Notify to remember your friends birthday. - Notify to break every 60 minutes during work. [Notification contents] - Title - Text - Image [Specifiable trigger settings] - Date and time - Day of the week - Month - Every Day, Month, Year - Time interval - Address - Location name - Location on map - Distance to location - Repeat [Terms & Conditions] https://www.hayaya.net/terms-conditions/notification-app.html [Privacy Policy] https://www.hayaya.net/privacy-policy/notification-app.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bark at 98% against Just Notify!'s 0%. Bark also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (109 vs 5). Just Notify!'s advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year and Just Notify! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bark holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 109 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Bark's written reviews are positive against 0% of Just Notify!'s.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, Just Notify! daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bark | Just Notify! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (109 ratings) — better | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 109 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | Hayato Shimizu |
Customer experience
Bark
Just Notify!
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
Just Notify!
- Premium (Monthly plan)$1.991 Month
- Premium (Buying out)$19.99









