PDF Reflow vs CustomNotify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Reflow
Read PDF and Word documents on your phone with a mobile-optimized layout. It reformats documents to fit your screen width, preserving original fonts, colors, and graphics. Features include text search, selection, and adjustable text size.
- Mobile-optimized PDF and Word reading
- Reflows text to fit screen width
- Preserves original fonts, colors, and graphics
- Text search and selection
- Adjustable text size up to 300%
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Reading PDFs on your phone shouldn’t feel like work. PDF Reflow transforms PDFs and Word documents into a clean, phone-friendly reading experience. No more tiny text, constant pinching, horizontal scrolling, or multi-column pages that don’t fit your screen. The latest version uses AI-powered page analysis to better understand each document’s layout, including text, graphics, figures, tables, and mathematical formulas. It then reorganizes the content into a natural vertical flow while preserving the document’s structure and visual context. PDF Reflow is ideal for: • Research papers • Reports and manuals • Articles • Word documents • Technical and scientific PDFs • Documents with figures, tables, colors, and formulas Features include: • AI-powered page and layout analysis • Comfortable, screen-width reading • Text selection and highlighting • Search within documents • Adjustable text size up to 300% • Automatic Table of Contents • Dark mode for PDFs • Built-in document picker If you read PDFs on your phone and are tired of fighting the original page layout, PDF Reflow is made for you. Questions or feedback? laurent@appblit.com
CustomNotify
Design and schedule personalized alerts with custom titles, messages, icons, and sounds. Set one-time or recurring reminders, and use persistent notifications with action buttons for easy management. Works entirely offline for enhanced privacy.
- Customizable notification design
- Live lock screen preview
- Template library
- Natural language scheduling
- Actionable notification buttons
- Recurring and custom interval scheduling
- Persistent and nagging alerts
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Your Alerts, Your Way CustomNotify puts you in complete control of your notifications. Design personalized alerts with custom titles, messages, icons, colors, and sounds, then schedule them exactly when you need them. CREATE IN SECONDS See a live lock screen preview as you build your notification. Choose from 50+ ready made templates or type a natural language description and let CustomNotify do the rest. Add action buttons to snooze, skip, or mark done right from your lock screen. SCHEDULE YOUR WAY • One time reminders for dates that matter • Daily and weekly repeats • Custom intervals, every 2 hours, every 3 days, you name it • Persistent alerts that stick until you act on them NEVER FORGET Turn on nagging mode and CustomNotify will remind you again and again until you acknowledge it. Choose how often (every 1, 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes) and how many times. Snooze when you need a break. PRIVACY FIRST No account. No cloud. No tracking. No ads. CustomNotify works entirely offline, your reminders and personal data never leave your device. FREE FEATURES • Up to 10 active notifications • One time, daily, and weekly scheduling • 10 built in templates • Nagging mode • Full notification history • Unlimited active notifications • All schedule types including custom intervals • 50+ templates • Persistent notifications • Backup and restore • Priority support From the makers of CustomBank, CustomCrypto, CustomSubs, and CustomWorth. Questions or feedback? Visit customnotify.us or email info@customapps.us
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CustomNotify at 4.5 against PDF Reflow's 3.6. CustomNotify also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). PDF Reflow's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. PDF Reflow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CustomNotify asks for nothing beyond the download.
CustomNotify holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Reflow has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of PDF Reflow's written reviews are positive against 50% of CustomNotify's.
PDF Reflow ships an update every 5 days, CustomNotify weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDF Reflow | CustomNotify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (28 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | CustomApps LLC |
Customer experience
PDF Reflow
CustomNotify
In-app purchases
PDF Reflow
- PDF Reflow PRO$7.99
CustomNotify
No in-app purchases







