ntfy vs Steady
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
Steady
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Your weight moves two kilos in a day. Salt, water, what you had for dinner. If you're actually losing fat, you're losing about 400 grams a week. Five times smaller than the noise sitting on top of it. Every other weight app draws that noise and leaves the filtering to you. You did everything right, the number went up, and you talk yourself out of it. That's where people quit. Steady filters. Drag a ruler to your weight, it goes into Apple Health, and you see one smoothed line. THE LINE An exponentially weighted moving average over your whole history. A 1.5 kg salt spike moves the line by 0.27 kg and fades. The reading shows up as a dot well off the line. The line barely notices. Week charts fit a straight line through seven readings, because over seven points smoothing still wobbles and tells you nothing. Year charts smooth weekly averages a second time. TWO SCREENS Log is a ruler you drag. It clicks every 100 grams and starts where you were yesterday. No keypad, no picker wheel. Trend is one chart and four figures: today, yesterday, your seven-day average, and your change per week. The trend gets the big number. Today's reading doesn't. The daily number is the noise. NOT IN IT No account. No subscription. No ads. No streaks, no badges, no notifications. No settings, because units and appearance follow your phone. No green for down and no red for up, because colour-coding a measurement turns it into a verdict. YOUR DATA Your weight lives in Apple Health and nowhere else. No server, no analytics, no network code of any kind. Steady works in airplane mode, permanently. We can't see your weight. Neither can Apple. SHORTCUTS Put the log screen on your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Action Button. Or write a reading from a Shortcut without opening the app. Made by Levo Studio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: ntfy at 3 against Steady's 1. ntfy also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
| Parameter | ntfy | Steady |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (469 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 469 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Heckel | Julius Grimm |
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
Steady
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ntfy
No in-app purchases
Steady
No in-app purchases









