ntfy vs Better Stack On
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ntfy
This app allows you to send push notifications to your phone from scripts or other applications using simple HTTP requests. It acts as a client for a free, open-source pub-sub service, enabling you to receive alerts and updates directly on your device.
- Send notifications via REST API
- Subscribe to topics
- Publish messages via HTTP
- Integrates with Bash/PowerShell
- Free and open source client
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Send push notifications to your phone from any Bash or PowerShell script, or from your own app using PUT/POST requests, e.g. via curl on Linux or Invoke-WebRequest. ntfy is a client for https://ntfy.sh, a free and open source HTTP-based pub-sub service. You can subscribe to topics in this app, and then publish messages via a simple HTTP API. Uses: * Notify yourself when a long-running process is done * Ping your phone when a backup has failed * Alerts when someone logs into your server Example: $ curl -d "Your backup is done" ntfy.sh/mytopic Find more examples and usage instructions here: https://ntfy.sh/docs
Better Stack On
Manage incidents, monitor uptime, and communicate service status with your team. Receive alerts through various channels, schedule on-call rotations, and create branded status pages for your users. Integrates with over 100 services.
- Incident alerts via push, SMS, calls, email, Slack, Teams
- Incident reports with screenshots and timelines
- On-call scheduling and calendar integration
- Uptime monitoring with fast HTTP(s) checks
- Heartbeat monitoring for CRON jobs
- Branded public status pages
- Integrations with 100+ apps
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Better Stack is a single platform for uptime and infrastructure monitoring, incident management, on-call scheduling, error tracking, and status pages. Our AI SRE agent doesn't just tell you that something broke, it helps you find out why, right from your phone. INCIDENT ALERTS Get incident alerts via your preferred channel: push notifications, SMS, phone calls, e-mails, Slack, or Teams messages. Acknowledge the incident with a single click on your phone to let the rest of the team know you’re taking care of it. INCIDENT REPORTS Every incident is captured with a screenshot, the error messages, and a second-by-second timeline of exactly what happened. Fixed it? Write a quick post-mortem so the whole team learns from it. AI SRE When an incident hits, you don't have to investigate alone. Tap the AI SRE tab and our agent digs through your logs, metrics, and traces, lines up recent deployments and metric changes, and pinpoints the root cause. It can open a pull request with a fix, and always asks for your approval first. ON-CALL SCHEDULING Set up on-call rotations, request cover, and add overrides. On-call colleague asleep? Smart escalations wake up the next person, or the whole team, when no one responds. Sync your schedule to Google Calendar or Outlook so everyone knows when they're on. UPTIME MONITORING Monitor uptime with reliable HTTP(s) and ping checks from multiple regions, as often as every 30 seconds. HEARTBEAT MONITORING Use our heartbeat monitoring for your CRON scripts and background jobs, and never lose a database backup again. ERROR TRACKING Track exceptions across your stack with Sentry-compatible error tracking. Ask AI SRE to investigate any error and trace it to the change that introduced it. STATUS PAGE When something goes down, your team isn't the only one who needs to know. Create a branded public status page to keep your customers informed and build confidence in your product. And the best part? You can set it all up in just 3 minutes! RICH INTEGRATIONS Integrate with over 100 apps and connect all of your infrastructure services. Sync with tools like Heroku, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Zendesk, and many more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ntfy at 79% against Better Stack On's 17%. ntfy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). Better Stack On's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). 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.
ntfy ships an update fortnightly, Better Stack On weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ntfy | Better Stack On |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (425 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 425 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Heckel | Better Stack, Inc. |
Customer experience
ntfy
Better Stack On
Bugs and requests
ntfy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notifications not working on iOS
- Broken click URLs in notifications
- Compatibility issues with iOS notification summarizing
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to change notification sounds
- Support for Apple Watch
- Customizable topic names/aliases
- Improved iOS notification handling
- All topics view and read/unread indicators
Better Stack On
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ntfy
No in-app purchases
Better Stack On
No in-app purchases









