Comparison

Prowl vs transmission qbremote

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

transmission qbremote

Manage your download tasks remotely on your home server. Supports popular downloaders like Transmission, qBit, and Aria2c. Monitor your ongoing downloads from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Remote download task viewing
  • Transmission support
  • qBit support
  • Aria2c support
  • Home server monitoring
Features
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View download tasks on your home server. Supported downloaders. - Transmission - qb - Aria2c EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Prowl3 screens
transmission qbremote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: transmission qbremote at Free against Prowl's $2.99. transmission qbremote also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Prowl's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads and device support 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

transmission qbremote is free to download; Prowl costs $2.99 up front. transmission qbremote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Prowl asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Prowl holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 107 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Prowl's written reviews are positive against 70% of transmission qbremote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prowl ships an update every 7 months, transmission qbremote monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Prowl versus transmission qbremote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProwltransmission qbremote
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (107 ratings) — better3.9 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews86.9% of reviews — better69.7% of reviews
Number of ratings107 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB43 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperProwl Solutions LLC峰 高

Customer experience

Prowl

All ratings107 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews245 reviews
Positive86.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.0%

transmission qbremote

All ratings36 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative19.7%

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

transmission qbremote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Prowl

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

transmission qbremote

Subscriptions2
  • Premium version (monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Premium version (annually)$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium version (lifetime)$6.99

Questions

Is Prowl free?
Prowl costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is transmission qbremote free?
transmission qbremote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prowl or transmission qbremote?
Prowl is rated higher. Prowl averages 4.6 out of 5 from 107 ratings, while transmission qbremote averages 3.9 from 35 ratings.
Do Prowl or transmission qbremote have ads?
Neither Prowl nor transmission qbremote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prowl or transmission qbremote?
Prowl ships an update every 7 months, and transmission qbremote monthly. Most recently, Prowl was updated on October 27, 2026 and transmission qbremote on October 25, 2026.

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