Bark vs notifi
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/
notifi
This utility app allows users to receive push notifications via simple HTTP(s) requests. It's designed for embedding into various platforms and services, enabling custom notification systems.
- Receive push notifications
- HTTP(s) request integration
- Multi-platform support
- Embeddable into services
- Custom notification systems
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Push notifications from anything that can make an HTTP request. Send notifi.it a title, and optionally a body, image or link, and it appears on your iPhone, iPad or Mac immediately. https://notifi.it/send?title=hello+world Encrypted. Your device holds the only private key. Notifications are encrypted with your public key, so we cannot read them, and deleted from the server once your device has them. No accounts. The app makes a send key on first launch. Keys can be renamed and revoked per source. Urgent alerts. Mark a key as urgent and its notifications break through Focus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bark at 4.9 against notifi's 4.3. Bark also leads on review sentiment (98% vs 83%) and ratings volume (110 vs 9). notifi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year. notifi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bark holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 110 ratings behind it against 9, 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 83% of notifi's.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, notifi every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Bark | notifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (110 ratings) — better | 4.3 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | Max Mitchell |
Customer experience
Bark
notifi
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
notifi
No in-app purchases









