Comparison

Random Notification vs Plural Star

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Random Notification

This app sends random notifications with your custom content at set intervals throughout the day. It's useful for reminders, memorization, or daily inspiration.

Highlights
  • Customizable notifications
  • Folder organization
  • List reordering and deletion
  • Random timing options
  • Adjustable notification intervals
  • Customizable app icon text
Features
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It is an application that can randomly notify your entered content at a fixed time. 【Example of use】 ・ Notification of great people's quotes etc. every day at random. ・ Notify you every day so that you don't forget your goals. ・ Register what you want to memorize, such as foreign language words, and receive a random notification every day. ・ Reminders such as weekly TV programs. 【Functions】 - Folder function - Reordering and deletion of lists - Notification in the order of the list - Random notifications - Random notifications at random times during the day - Notification icon image can be set freely The basic random notification can be made at the following intervals. #Every hour #Every 3 hours #Every 6 hours #Every 12 hours #Dairy #Every2days #Every3 days #Every4days #Every5days #Every6days #Every week #Every10 days #Every 2 weeks #Every4weeks #Every month 【Other】 The text on the app icon can be changed to English and French. Convenient to use text paste with a single tap of a button. copyright https://icons8.jp

About

Plural Star

A private, offline-first system management app designed for individuals experiencing plurality, including DID and OSDD. It offers detailed tracking of fronting states, member profiles, custom fields, and system mapping. The app prioritizes user data privacy by keeping all information on the device.

Highlights
  • Three-tier front tracking (Primary, Co-Front, Co-Conscious)
  • Detailed member profiles with rich-text bios and custom fields
  • Observatory Mode for singlet access and journaling
  • Interactive system map for relationship visualization
  • Comprehensive history and insights on fronting and member activity
  • Local-only IRC-style system chat
Features
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Plural Star is a private, offline-first system management app built for plural individuals, those with DID, OSDD, or any form of plurality. Made in part with AI assistance, which is one of the main reasons we went Open Source. So that anyone wishing to, or with concerns, can examine the code. Simply Plural and Octocon have been discontinued. Plural Star is the replacement you own entirely; your data stays on your device. Features Three-Tier Front Tracking Track Primary Front, Co-Front, and Co-Conscious. Each tier has its own member, mood, note, and energy (1–10); Primary also tracks location. Members are exclusive to one tier. A persistent notification keeps all tiers visible. Optional front-check reminders. Friends & Syncing Optional end-to-end encrypted networking, off by default; the relay sees only encrypted blobs. Add friends with short mutual codes and see their front live. Privacy Buckets set what each friend sees: members, groups, journal, history, profile, whiteboard, or planner. Link your own devices: pick which sends first, then everything syncs both ways, pictures included. Pin up to five friends into the notification, or the iOS Live Island. Member Profiles Profile pictures, 900×300 banners, names, pronouns, roles, colors, rich-text bios with full Markdown. Freeform tags and colored groups with multi-group membership. Facets and Custom Fronts for parts that aren't members. Filter, search, sort six ways. Tier badges when fronting. Archive dormant members: history preserved, restorable. Your Words Rename Headmate, Front, Facet, and more. The whole app follows your system's language. Observatory Mode Turns Plural Star into a manual status tracker and journaling app with a rebuilt UI for the Singlets in our lives, granting almost every feature. For non-plural friends, family, and caretakers. Day Planner Calendar of appointments and repeating reminders, each with its own mark color and alerts. Whiteboard Freeform canvas: pen, shapes, fill, and eraser. Custom Fields Define your own per-member fields, eight types from text to Markdown. Reorderable, renameable, exportable. Mailbox System-wide mail between headmates: per-member inboxes with unread badges, replies, and pinning. Syncs across devices. System Polls Polls the whole system can vote on. Vote tallies, voter tracking, optional closure. One vote per member; changeable until closed. System Map Chart relationships between headmates on an interactive force-directed graph. Members join as you create relationships. History & Insights Front History: timestamped log of every switch by day, with co-front and co-conscious tiers inline. Member History: every session, mood/location/note change, energy, and journal entry per headmate, with totals. Add retroactive entries with three-tier support and overlap detection. System Statistics Total fronting time, session and message counts, with time-range filtering. Leaderboards for fronters, co-fronters, co-conscious, chatters, moods, and locations. Peak Hours shows when your system is most active. System Chat Local-only IRC-style chat, up to 100 channels. Speaker is independent of who's fronting; chat doesn't affect front or history. Text, images, replies, emoji reactions. Archive channels to free storage. System Journal The same rich-text entries with full Markdown as member profiles. Tag by author and topic hashtag. Optionally lock individual entries or the whole journal with passwords. Import & Export Import full system data from Simply Plural, PluralKit, Octocon, Ampersand, Ourcana, HiveMind, Tupperbox, Parallax, PluralLog & PluralSpace. Export as .zip, HTML, or email summary with per-category toggles. Import .txt, .md, or .json directly as journal entries. Multilingual 24 languages: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Suomi, Norsk, Italiano, Türkçe, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Русский, Українська, Nederlands, Íslenska, हिन्दी, Afrikaans, 한국어, Svenska, Polski. Auto-detects on first launch.

Screenshots

Random Notification4 screens
Plural Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plural Star at none against Random Notification's 1. Plural Star also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Random Notification's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Random Notification sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plural Star asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Random Notification holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 45 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Random Notification's written reviews are positive against 90% of Plural Star's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Random Notification ships an update every 2 months, Plural Star every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Random Notification versus Plural Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRandom NotificationPlural Star
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (71 ratings) — better4.6 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better45
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyusuke UchidaZachary Boyle

Customer experience

Random Notification

All ratings71 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral4.7%
Negative16.3%

Plural Star

All ratings45 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Random Notification

One-time1
  • Pro Version$4.99
None

Plural Star

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Random Notification free?
Random Notification is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plural Star free?
Plural Star is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Random Notification or Plural Star?
Random Notification is rated higher. Random Notification averages 4.8 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Plural Star averages 4.6 from 45 ratings.
Do Random Notification or Plural Star have ads?
Random Notification shows ads; Plural Star does not.
Which is updated more often, Random Notification or Plural Star?
Random Notification ships an update every 2 months, and Plural Star every 4 days. Most recently, Random Notification was updated on October 12, 2026 and Plural Star on October 11, 2026.

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