Pushcut vs SecureEdge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pushcut
Automate your digital life with smart notifications and custom widgets. Trigger workflows based on time, location, or external services. Design dynamic home screen widgets to display personalized information.
- Smart notifications
- Customizable widgets
- Location-based triggers
- Scheduled alerts
- HomeKit scene activation
- Webhook integration
- API for dynamic content
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Pushcut helps you kick off your automation when it matters. Create fine-tuned interactions for HomeKit, Shortcuts, and custom workflows through smart notifications and widgets combined with powerful automation actions. Use HomeKit scenes, shortcuts, online integrations, and web services as notification actions that pop up exactly when they matter to you. Trigger these smart notifications from Shortcuts, HomeKit, schedules, locations, iBeacons, online services (like IFTTT, Zapier, Flow, Integromat, ...), home servers, or anywhere that knows what HTTP is. Design beautiful custom widgets and display dynamic information that you can provide using Shortcuts actions, online services or our own API. "The premiere companion utility for Shortcuts and Home on iOS" - Federico Viticci (MacStories) "An essential tool for HomeKit power users" - Christopher Close (HomeKit Hero) "Very powerful" - Rosemary Orchard (Take Control of Shortcuts) Features + Set up alerts & reminders to trigger scheduled & location-based smart notifications + Combine time and location triggers (eg: "weekdays at 6 PM when I am at work") + Schedule notifications from Shortcuts + Schedule a shortcut from Shortcuts + Design custom home-screen widgets + Trigger notifications and widget updates through a secure webhook or Pushcut API + Trigger notifications and widget updates from third-party integrations and online services like Zapier, Integromat, IFTTT, etc. + Define notifications with custom titles and messages + Add action buttons to the notifications for quicker access + Run shortcuts directly from notification actions + Activate HomeKit scenes directly from notification actions + Add URLs to the push notifications and open them directly from the notifications + Run online actions (webhooks, HTTP requests) directly from notifications without opening any app or website + Execute online actions in the background based on location or iBeacon events + Customize notification sounds and images + Deliver push notifications to specific devices individually + Use a powerful JSON API to deliver dynamic texts, shortcut inputs, and URLs + Turn a dedicated iOS device into your personal Shortcuts and HomeKit server Apple Watch + Interactive notifications (requires watchOS 6) + Run HomeKit scenes, online actions, and HTTP requests (like IFTTT webhooks) directly from your wrist + Execute multiple actions from one notification (with "Keep Open" flag) (Note: Opening Shortcuts, Safari, or other apps is not supported on Apple Watch) Free version limits: + define up to 3 notifications + define up to 2 background actions + define up to 1 action per notification + use with local triggers or basic webhooks (no dynamic content or online actions) — Pro — + custom dynamic widgets + unlimited notification definitions + unlimited actions per notification + activate HomeKit scenes + unlimited background actions + dynamic notifications from service integrations + fully customizable actions using the powerful JSON API + execute online actions and web requests directly + input parameters for shortcuts and online actions + run and monitor an Automation Server (limits apply) — Automation Server Extended — + schedule server actions periodically + trigger delayed server actions + up to 5000 server requests per day Payments You can subscribe to a monthly or annual subscription plan. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase. A subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after making the purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.pushcut.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.pushcut.io/privacy
SecureEdge
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SecureEdge is a voice-first AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Dictate, load documents, and ask questions about sensitive material. The language model runs on the device, so your prompts, documents, transcripts, and answers never leave it. It is built for people who cannot use cloud AI: defense and government users handling controlled unclassified information, defense contractors, allied forces, and any regulated organization on managed Apple devices. WHAT IT DOES • Chat with an open-weight language model with streaming responses, image and document attachments, and true conversation history. • Dictate on device. Speech is transcribed locally, then cleaned up by the model with support for military and technical vocabulary. • Build a document library from PDF, text, RTF, and images with on-device OCR. Everything is encrypted at rest. • Run workflows on any input: Summarize, Key points, Action items, SITREP draft, Extract entities, Formal rewrite, Describe image, and Translate to English. Create your own in the custom workflow editor. • Let long jobs finish on their own. Large inputs run in checkpointed steps that resume after a pause, background expiry, or termination, and a local notification tells you when they are done. • Choose the model that fits your device. Models the hardware cannot run are shown with the reason and cannot be loaded. BUILT FOR MANAGED FLEETS • MDM policy client with fail-closed parsing, so an unreadable policy locks down rather than opens up. • Signed model bundles with Ed25519 manifests and SHA-256 verification. • Hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log with in-app verification and JSON Lines export. • Retention enforcement: per session, 24 hours, 30 days, or indefinite, set by policy. • Admin tooling for signing bundles and generating MDM configuration. HOW MODELS ARRIVE This App Store build can download models from a signed catalog. That download is the only network activity; inference, dictation, documents, and chat never touch a server. Downloaded models can be removed locally at any time. Managed deployments can instead push models through MDM and run with no networking at all. DEVICE REQUIREMENTS The model sets the hardware floor. SecureEdge needs iOS 26 or later and an iPhone 15 or newer with at least 6 GB of memory. iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with 8 GB, is recommended for the larger and vision-capable models. No account. No analytics. No cloud. Your data stays where you put it. Private policy: https://www.secureedgemobile.com/privacy/ Terms and conditions: https://www.secureedgemobile.com/terms/ Pilot programs and enterprise deployment: visit secureedgemobile.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SecureEdge at none against Pushcut's 5. SecureEdge also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly). Pushcut's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. Pushcut sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SecureEdge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pushcut ships an update monthly, SecureEdge daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushcut | SecureEdge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (543 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 52.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 543 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Peter Leeb | Wanyeki Technologies |
Bugs and requests
Pushcut
Reported bugs
4 issues- Shortcuts not running properly on remote server
- Widgets not updating in a timely manner
- Notification delivery issues, especially with location-based triggers
- Server setup process often fails
Requested features
5 requests- Add live activities support
- Allow launching apps directly from notifications
- Improve widget performance and reliability
- Provide more notification sound options
- Make server setup easier and more flexible
SecureEdge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushcut
- Pro monthly$1.991 Month
- Server Extended (Month)$2.491 Month
- Pro yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
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- Server Extended (Year)$22.491 Year
- Pro Lifetime$39.99
SecureEdge
No in-app purchases








