Comparison

Just Notify! vs Nudge

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

Head to head
About

Just Notify!

This app allows you to set reminders and notifications without using your calendar. It specializes in managing notifications triggered by specific dates, times, intervals, or locations, making it easy to remember tasks or events.

Highlights
  • Set notifications without calendar
  • Trigger by date and time
  • Trigger by interval
  • Trigger by location
  • Include title, text, and image
  • Repeat notifications
Features
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Use notifications instead of notes! This application can send notifications without calendar app. Specializes in managing notifications only, so you can easily set up notifications. Notifications can be sent at specified dates, times, intervals, and locations. [Useful at times like this] - Notify to buy medicine when you approach the pharmacy. - Notify to remember your friends birthday. - Notify to break every 60 minutes during work. [Notification contents] - Title - Text - Image [Specifiable trigger settings] - Date and time - Day of the week - Month - Every Day, Month, Year - Time interval - Address - Location name - Location on map - Distance to location - Repeat [Terms & Conditions] https://www.hayaya.net/terms-conditions/notification-app.html [Privacy Policy] https://www.hayaya.net/privacy-policy/notification-app.html

About

Nudge

This app helps you remember recurring tasks with custom alarms. Set daily reminders for medicine, hydration, or family obligations. It's a simple tool to supplement your calendar for frequently forgotten activities.

Highlights
  • Custom alarm creation
  • Repeat alarms daily/weekly
  • Customizable alarm sounds
  • Optional 5-minute warning
  • User-friendly interface
  • Alarm customization (colors, icons, names)
  • Cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Features
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Nudge is a simple daily schedule and alarm app for all the small things you keep meaning to do. Take your medicine. Drink some water. Roll the trash out. Stand up and stretch. Pick up the kids. Walk the dog. Call your mom and tell her you love her (dad too, he is waiting). A Nudge alarm takes about ten seconds to set up, and then it just shows up when you need it, like a friend who happens to be very good with time. Nudge is not trying to replace your calendar. Your calendar is for meetings and dentist appointments. Nudge is for the stuff you do over and over, the things that never make it onto a calendar and still manage to slip your mind. Pick a time, choose the days, pick a sound, then give it a name, a color and an icon so you know what it is at a glance. That is the whole setup. Nothing to learn, nothing to maintain. HOW PEOPLE USE NUDGE • Medicine, vitamins and refills, on time and on the right days • Water breaks and stretch breaks during long stretches at a desk • Trash and recycling night, so the truck outside is never a surprise • School pickup, practice, lessons and carpool • Feeding the dog, walking the dog, the cat's medicine • Walk, meditate, journal, whatever you promised yourself back in January • Calling the people you love more often than you currently do FEATURES • Create custom alarms in seconds • Repeat on any day, or any mix of days • Optional 5-minute warning bell so you can finish what you are doing first • Choose from a library of sounds • Name your nudges and give them colors and icons • Home screen widget with today's schedule at a glance • Ask Siri to create a nudge without opening the app • Light, dark, or match your system appearance • Mute everything for a quiet day without deleting a single alarm • Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac NUDGE PRO Pro removes all ads, syncs your nudges across iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud, and unlocks more icons and sounds. The free version keeps doing everything it always did. Got a nudge idea we should have thought of? Send it to us from inside the app. We read all of it.

Screenshots

Just Notify!4 screens
Nudge4 screens

Verdict

The call

Just Notify! and Nudge both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 65% of Nudge's written reviews are positive against 0% of Just Notify!'s. Nudge also leads on ratings volume (281 vs 5). Just Notify!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Just Notify! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Nudge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nudge holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nudge has 281 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Just Notify!'s written reviews are positive against 65% of Nudge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Just Notify! ships an update daily, Nudge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Just Notify! versus Nudge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJust Notify!Nudge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings)4.6 (281 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews64.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5281 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHayato ShimizuJeff Battson

Customer experience

Just Notify!

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Nudge

All ratings280 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral11.8%
Negative23.5%

Bugs and requests

Just Notify!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Nudge

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App freezes when turning on/off with recurring reminders
  • Notifications don't send despite being configured
  • Delayed notification delivery (requires hours to start working)
  • App crashes after initial setup
  • Ads difficult to close
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  • Aggressive ad interruptions during task creation

Requested features

14 requests
  • iPad landscape mode support
  • One-time/specific date reminders (not just recurring)
  • Apple Watch alert support
  • More interval options (every 4 days, specific Sundays, etc.)
  • Separate weekly schedules/templates
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  • Home screen widgets
  • Manual skip option for reminders
  • Mark reminders as done for the day
  • Light mode option
  • Ad-free premium version
  • Ability to set reminders multiple times per day
  • More emoji options (smileys, workout icons, etc.)
  • Repeating alert tones with ending alert option
  • Monthly event planning capabilities

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Just Notify!

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Monthly plan)$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Premium (Buying out)$19.99
2 purchases

Nudge

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Just Notify! free?
Just Notify! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nudge free?
Nudge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Just Notify! or Nudge?
Nudge is rated higher. Just Notify! averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Nudge averages 4.6 from 281 ratings.
Do Just Notify! or Nudge have ads?
Nudge shows ads; Just Notify! does not.
Which is updated more often, Just Notify! or Nudge?
Just Notify! ships an update daily, and Nudge every 5 weeks. Most recently, Just Notify! was updated on October 24, 2026 and Nudge on October 27, 2026.

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