Splunk Mobile vs ntfy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Splunk Mobile
Access and manage your business data insights from anywhere. Receive alerts, view dashboards, and take action on critical information directly from your mobile device.
- Receive and respond to notifications
- View multiple Splunk instances
- Search and filter dashboards
- Manage alerts
- Run playbooks in Phantom Mobile
- Filter and view events
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Splunk, the industry leader in turning data into business insights, offers mobile apps that extend Splunk capabilities beyond the desktop. Get notifications, view dashboards, and take action with your data on the go with Splunk Mobile. Using Splunk Mobile with your Splunk deployment, you can: - Receive and respond to notifications triggered by your Splunk Enterprise, and Splunk Cloud instances. - Get insights from multiple Splunk instances. - View, filter, and search for dashboards and alerts from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance. To get data from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance, use Splunk Secure Gateway to transmit data from your on-premise deployment or cloud deployment to registered mobile devices. Splunk Secure Gateway is included in Splunk Cloud version 8.1.2103 and Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.0 and higher. Splunk Mobile is not available for GovCloud or FedRAMP Environments. For any questions and feedback about Splunk Mobile, email mobile-support@splunk.com.
ntfy
This app allows you to send push notifications to your phone from scripts or other applications using simple HTTP requests. It acts as a client for a free, open-source pub-sub service, enabling you to receive alerts and updates directly on your device.
- Send notifications via REST API
- Subscribe to topics
- Publish messages via HTTP
- Integrates with Bash/PowerShell
- Free and open source client
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Send push notifications to your phone from any Bash or PowerShell script, or from your own app using PUT/POST requests, e.g. via curl on Linux or Invoke-WebRequest. ntfy is a client for https://ntfy.sh, a free and open source HTTP-based pub-sub service. You can subscribe to topics in this app, and then publish messages via a simple HTTP API. Uses: * Notify yourself when a long-running process is done * Ping your phone when a backup has failed * Alerts when someone logs into your server Example: $ curl -d "Your backup is done" ntfy.sh/mytopic Find more examples and usage instructions here: https://ntfy.sh/docs
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ntfy at 79% against Splunk Mobile's 42%. ntfy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ntfy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ntfy has 425 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Splunk Mobile's written reviews are positive against 79% of ntfy's.
Splunk Mobile ships an update every 6 weeks, ntfy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Splunk Mobile | ntfy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (39 ratings) | 4.8 (425 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 425 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 262 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Splunk Inc. | Philipp Heckel |
Customer experience
Splunk Mobile
ntfy
Bugs and requests
Splunk Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ntfy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notifications not working on iOS
- Broken click URLs in notifications
- Compatibility issues with iOS notification summarizing
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to change notification sounds
- Support for Apple Watch
- Customizable topic names/aliases
- Improved iOS notification handling
- All topics view and read/unread indicators
In-app purchases
Splunk Mobile
No in-app purchases
ntfy
No in-app purchases









