ntfy vs CellGlide
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
CellGlide
Share your iPhone's cellular connection with your Mac via USB. Monitor live speeds, data usage by service, and network details. Offers DNS customization and diagnostic tools for your cellular connection.
- USB tethering to Mac
- Live speed and data usage dashboard
- Service and protocol traffic breakdown
- Customizable DNS settings
- Network diagnostics and speed tests
- Usage history by session, day, or month
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CellGlide shares your iPhone’s cellular connection with your Mac over USB and makes that connection easy to understand: live speeds, how much data you used and which services it went to. Share with your Mac over USB Connect your iPhone and Mac with a cable, start sharing on your phone, then turn on the connection in CellGlide for Mac. Download and install the Mac client separately from our website. The app accepts only local connections forwarded over USB; it is not open to Wi-Fi, hotspot or local network devices. Live traffic dashboard The Network status card shows your carrier with 5G / 4G, public IP, this session’s total traffic and a live throughput chart at a glance; the details screen adds upload and download speed charts and active connections. Usage history, services and protocols Review traffic forwarded by CellGlide by session, day or month, see how much YouTube, WeChat, iCloud and other services used, and get a breakdown across HTTPS, TLS, QUIC, HTTP, DNS and other TCP / UDP traffic. Services are grouped by each connection’s destination main domain, with no full URLs or content recorded. Records stay on this iPhone and can be cleared at any time. Service and protocol categories are estimates, and HTTPS content is never decrypted. Statistics cover only traffic shared through CellGlide, not usage across all iPhone apps. DNS for shared traffic Choose Cloudflare, Google or a custom HTTPS DNS service for traffic forwarded by CellGlide, or turn off encrypted DNS and adjust caching. These settings do not change your iPhone’s global DNS or your Mac’s Wi-Fi DNS settings. Diagnostics and speed testing Check the cellular path, DNS and Internet connectivity, and run upload and download tests against Cloudflare. See your public IP, its network name and AS number, city, country and Cloudflare connection location. Geographic information is estimated from your IP address. Requirements Requires iOS 17 or later, an active cellular data plan, a USB data cable, a Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 13 or later, and CellGlide for Mac. Keep this app in the foreground while sharing; sharing may stop when you lock your phone or switch apps. Speed tests use cellular data. Speed, service availability and plan charges depend on your carrier and network conditions, and CellGlide does not guarantee any particular carrier billing treatment. Available in Simplified Chinese, English and Spanish. No account required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CellGlide at daily against ntfy's fortnightly. CellGlide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). ntfy's advantage is ratings volume (452 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
CellGlide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ntfy has 452 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ntfy ships an update fortnightly, CellGlide daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ntfy | CellGlide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (452 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 452 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Heckel | Xi Wang |
Customer experience
ntfy
CellGlide
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
CellGlide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ntfy
No in-app purchases
CellGlide
No in-app purchases









