HZconnect vs notifi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HZconnect
Enhance your home's security with a connected ecosystem of smart devices. Control video doorbells, lights, and lanterns through a single app, creating custom scenes and receiving real-time alerts. Monitor your home remotely with live video feeds.
- Video doorbell control
- Smart security lights
- Decorative lantern integration
- Voice control
- Scene creation
- Live home monitoring
- Wi-Fi setup, no hub required
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Blanket your home in complete connected security with the total family of HZConnect™ products. Our innovative product line includes a video doorbell, security lights, and decorative lanterns that all work together in one seamlessly designed HZConnect™ app. Our smart home technology allows you to control the HZConnect™ products with your voice and group all the HZConnect™ family of products to create scenes and to activate one another. Receive alert notifications and have the ability to check on your home through live view when away with HZConnect™ video products. Wi-Fi connectivity for quick and easy setup with your router, no bridge or hub required. Works with Google Assistant and Alexa.
notifi
Receive instant push notifications on your Apple devices from any source that can make an HTTP request. This app offers encrypted, private alerts with no account requirement, allowing you to manage and revoke notification keys. Urgent alerts can bypass Focus modes for critical messages.
- HTTP request integration
- Encrypted notifications
- No account required
- Customizable notification keys
- Urgent alert bypass
- Image and link support
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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 review sentiment: notifi at 83% against HZconnect's 39%. notifi also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). HZconnect's advantage is ratings volume (791 vs 9) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). 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.
HZconnect holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HZconnect has 791 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of HZconnect's written reviews are positive against 83% of notifi's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HZconnect ships an update every 7 months, notifi every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HZconnect | notifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (791 ratings) — better | 4.3 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 791 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Globe Electric Company Inc. | Max Mitchell |
Customer experience
HZconnect
notifi
Bugs and requests
HZconnect
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to connect device to new app
- Unstable live streaming and video playback
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to adjust motion detection zones
- Notification support for smartwatches
- Improved compatibility with older devices
notifi
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HZconnect
No in-app purchases
notifi
No in-app purchases
