Comparison

Prowl vs Tautulli Remote

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

Head to head
About

Prowl

Receive push notifications from your computer and various apps directly on your iOS device. Integrate the API into your own applications for custom alerts. Supports email-to-push and offers features like quiet hours and notification history.

Highlights
  • Push notifications from Mac/Windows
  • Support for numerous apps/services
  • Email to push functionality
  • Customizable notification delivery
  • Quiet Hours and Do Not Disturb modes
  • Notification history and control
Features
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Prowl is an easy push notifications client iOS. Push to your device notifications from your Mac or Windows computer, or from a multitude of apps and services. Easily integrate the Prowl API into your applications. A list of supported apps/services: http://prowlapp.com/apps.php The only limit of what the service can do is your imagination. REQUIREMENTS To receive notifications from your computer, you need the latest: • Growl on your Mac @ growl.info, or • Growl for Windows @ growlforwindows.com, or • Snarl on Windows @ fullphat.net, or • Any program or web service using the public API. THE CRITICS "I was extremely impressed with Prowl and the elegance with which I was able to view Growl notifications on my iPhone.” —Aron Trimble, TUAW "[A] powerful tool to connect your Mac with your iPhone, seamlessly over the air. —Federico Viticci, MacStories "Great idea. This opens up iPhone push notifications for anything you can think of.” —John Gruber, Daring Fireball "Probably the best $3 I’ve ever spent in the App Store.” —Darrell Etherington, The Apple Blog FEATURES • Push Notifications—When a Growl notification pops up on your computer, it's sent to Prowl and displayed on your iOS device within seconds. • Sweet application support—Prowl has support from a bunch of cool applications and services. Check out the full list at http://prowlapp.com/apps.php • Redirections—Launch a different application when you open a push notification. For example, a notification from your desktop Twitter client can relaunch into your favorite mobile client. You can even pick custom URLs to launch, so you can go anywhere! • Email to push—Use your Prowl email address (from the Prowl homepage's "API keys" tab) to get email delivery right on your device. Generate as many email addresses as you need! • An amazing API—Use the Prowl API with a multitude of libraries in various programming languages. You can send notifications from anything that can talk to the internet, and do some fun things along with it. • Quiet Hours—During the hours you specify, only the badge numbers are updated. No matter the source. Instead of getting a noisy alert, messages are quietly delivered. You can allow emergency-priority items to break quiet hours. • Do Not Disturb—Keep the application quiet whenever you're busy, or when you need a break from a constant alert. Controllable from within the application. • Control—Open the edit view to get a quick glance at your notifications, and do away with pesky ones. Quickly copy, email or SMS a notification directly from Prowl (depending on device and iOS version). • Browse quickly—Use Prowl's internal browser to quickly open links from a notification without having to open Safari. • History—Up to 10 days of notifications are kept on the server. You can delete notifications that you don't want to see any more, or remove all of your history. • Customized notifications—Only events you want are sent to Prowl. You can specify all kinds of conditions from the Prowl plugin for Growl. • Send any message to your device—From the Prowl website, you can send any text to your device: links and phone numbers are automatically linked, so you can easily navigate around without having to worry about typos. From the website or API, you can also automatically redirect to the attached URL. SETUP Prowl is built into Growl 2.0. For earlier versions: http://prowlapp.com/installation.php — for Mac. http://growlforwindows.com — for Windows. SUPPORT @prowlapp on Twitter http://prowlapp.com/support.php

About

Tautulli Remote

This app allows users to remotely access and interact with their Tautulli server from their mobile devices. It provides on-the-go management and monitoring capabilities for your media server statistics.

Highlights
  • Remote server access
  • On-the-go interaction
  • Server statistics monitoring
  • Official Tautulli app
Features
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Access and interact with Tautulli on the go with the official app from the Tautulli team. Terms of Use: https://tautulli.com/tautulli_remote_ios_terms_and_conditions Privacy Policy: https://tautulli.com/tautulli_remote_privacy

Screenshots

Prowl3 screens
Tautulli Remote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tautulli Remote at Free against Prowl's $2.99. Tautulli Remote also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Prowl's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Tautulli Remote is free to download; Prowl costs $2.99 up front. Tautulli Remote sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Prowl asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Prowl against 4.5 for Tautulli Remote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 106 and 42 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Prowl's written reviews are positive against 81% of Tautulli Remote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prowl ships an update every 7 months, Tautulli Remote monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Prowl versus Tautulli Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProwlTautulli Remote
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (106 ratings) — better4.5 (42 ratings)
Positive reviews87.7% of reviews — better80.8% of reviews
Number of ratings106 — better42
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProwl Solutions LLCDerek Rivard

Customer experience

Prowl

All ratings106 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews243 reviews
Positive87.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative9.1%

Tautulli Remote

All ratings42 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative19.2%

Bugs and requests

Prowl

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent notification delivery
  • Login issues on mobile app

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for modern iPhone screen sizes
  • Custom notification sounds
  • Improved notification management (e.g. delete multiple)
  • Integration with Apple Watch

Tautulli Remote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Prowl

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Tautulli Remote

Subscriptions4
  • "Tip Jar" Recurring Donation$0.991 Month
  • "Big Tip" Recurring Donation$1.991 Month
  • "Supporter" Recurring Donation$4.991 Month
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  • "Patron" Recurring Donation$9.991 Month
One-time4
  • "Buy Me A Cone" Donation$1.99
  • "Buy Me A Slice" Donation$2.99
  • "Buy Me A Burger" Donation$4.99
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  • "Buy Me A Meal" Donation$9.99

Questions

Is Prowl free?
Prowl costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tautulli Remote free?
Tautulli Remote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prowl or Tautulli Remote?
Prowl is rated higher. Prowl averages 4.6 out of 5 from 106 ratings, while Tautulli Remote averages 4.5 from 42 ratings.
Do Prowl or Tautulli Remote have ads?
Neither Prowl nor Tautulli Remote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prowl or Tautulli Remote?
Prowl ships an update every 7 months, and Tautulli Remote monthly. Most recently, Prowl was updated on October 14, 2026 and Tautulli Remote on October 15, 2026.

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