Comparison

Pushover Notifications vs Pushsafer

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

Head to head
About

Pushover Notifications

This service sends custom push notifications from various web apps, scripts, and devices directly to your iPhone, iPad, or desktop. It offers a free trial with a one-time purchase for unlimited usage, and includes an Apple Watch app for on-the-go alerts.

Highlights
  • Custom push notifications
  • Web app integration
  • Script and IoT device support
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • API for custom app development
  • Free 30-day trial
Features
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Pushover is a simple push notification service that integrates easily into web apps like IFTTT, network monitoring systems, security cameras, shell scripts, IoT devices, webhooks, and anything else that needs to send alerts to your iPhone, iPad, Desktop, and other robot-like mobile devices. App has a free 30-day trial and unlimited usage beyond the trial requires a one-time in-app purchase. Pushover includes an Apple Watch app and complications so you can push custom data straight to your watch face with our Glances API. Visit https://pushover.net to find apps, plugins, and services that already natively support Pushover, or get a free API key for your own apps.

About

Pushsafer

Send and receive real-time push notifications across devices via email, URL, or API. Customize notifications with various options and track locations. Ideal for alerts, reminders, and automation.

Highlights
  • Real-time push notifications
  • Send via email, URL, or API
  • Customizable notification options
  • Location tracking
  • Callback URL for automation
  • Device groups
  • Plugins and generators
Features
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Pushsafer make it easy and safe to send and receive push notifications in real time to your mobile or desktop device! Send & receive notifications by EMAIL, through a simple URL / LINK or with our API. Our software convert your request (send by eMail, URL, API call) and forwards it as a push-notification to your device. Offers solutions for many case studies, for example: home automation alerts, ip camera motion detection, server monitoring, sheduled reminder and everything else you want to be reminded. Send notifications to single devices or to device groups. You can set up your notification by changing title, message, icon, icon-color, sound, vibration, url, url title, time to live, priority, retry, expire, confirm & answer! Optionally you can add a URL with title and 3 images to your message. This first image also displayed in the Push Notification (requires iOS >=10.0) Track locations with each received push-notification! Callback-URL: receive a response with important information for further processing with each push notification, answer or with each registered guest device. This is useful for e.g. to create automatisms! We also provide many plugins for hard- and software and also a eMail and URL generator to make the setup fast and easy! Visit https://www.pushsafer.com for more informations!

Screenshots

Pushover Notifications4 screens
Pushsafer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pushover Notifications at 4.8 against Pushsafer's 4.3. Pushover Notifications also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 69%) and ratings volume (3.6K vs 66). Pushsafer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Pushover Notifications sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pushsafer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pushover Notifications holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.6K ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Pushover Notifications's written reviews are positive against 69% of Pushsafer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, Pushsafer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pushover Notifications versus Pushsafer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPushover NotificationsPushsafer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better4.3 (66 ratings)
Positive reviews91.6% of reviews — better68.9% of reviews
Number of ratings3.6K — better66
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPushover, LLCKevin Siml

Customer experience

Pushover Notifications

All ratings3,641 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews427 reviews
Positive91.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative7.0%

Pushsafer

All ratings66 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive68.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative26.2%

Bugs and requests

Pushover Notifications

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notifications not working after update
  • Syncing issues causing crashes
  • Notifications re-appearing after being deleted

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a delete all notifications option
  • Add support for custom notification sounds
  • Add 24-hour time format option
  • Improve Apple Watch notifications
  • Add custom actions to notifications

Pushsafer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pushover Notifications

One-time3
  • Pushover License$4.99
  • Tip$4.99
  • Tip$9.99
None

Pushsafer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pushover Notifications free?
Pushover Notifications is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pushsafer free?
Pushsafer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pushover Notifications or Pushsafer?
Pushover Notifications is rated higher. Pushover Notifications averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.6K ratings, while Pushsafer averages 4.3 from 66 ratings.
Do Pushover Notifications or Pushsafer have ads?
Neither Pushover Notifications nor Pushsafer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pushover Notifications or Pushsafer?
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, and Pushsafer every 3 months. Most recently, Pushover Notifications was updated on September 24, 2026 and Pushsafer on September 22, 2026.

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