Notchify vs Live Activities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notchify
Create personalized wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad with customizable borders and nine cutout styles. This app is completely free, ad-free, and does not collect your data. An optional upgrade offers additional features and faster exports.
- Customizable borders
- Nine cutout styles
- Home and Lock Screen design
- Supports all iOS 18 devices
- Ad-free experience
- Zero data collection
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Design striking wallpapers for your Home and Lock Screen. Add your own personal touch to your iPhone with a granular customization and many styles to choose from. From Island to Notch (and home button!), Notchify has you covered. Zero ads, zero trackers. Notchify supports every iPhone that's compatible with the latest version of iOS. — The app is entirely supported off of upgrading to Notchify Pro, which unlocks new features along with Unlimited Exports: - Unlimited Exports: no delay between exporting. Export as much as you want and as many times as you want. - Choose a custom app icon with Notch and Island variants and many color options - Customize the app's appearance
Live Activities
This app allows you to create dynamic to-do lists that appear on your iOS device's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Manage multiple lists in tabs and receive reminder notifications. All features are free to use.
- iOS 16 Live Activities
- Dynamic Island integration
- Lock screen widgets
- Home screen widgets
- Multiple list tabs
- Reminder notifications
- Icon badges
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iOS16 live activity, dynamic island, home & lock screen widget compatible tab type to-do list app. All features are completely free to use. - iOS16 live activities - Dynamic island - iOS16 lock screen widgets - iOS14 home screen widgets - Display multiple lists in tabs - reminder notifications - Display icon badges and so on...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Live Activities at none against Notchify's 1. Live Activities also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 75%). Notchify's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Notchify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Live Activities asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Notchify against 4.4 for Live Activities. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Notchify's written reviews are positive against 91% of Live Activities's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 23, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notchify | Live Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Gryzle LLC | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Notchify
Live Activities
In-app purchases
Notchify
- Notchify Pro$0.99
Live Activities
No in-app purchases
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