Pushover Notifications vs Simple Complications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Simple Complications
Display any online data as a complication on your Apple Watch. Track key metrics by pulling information from websites, RSS feeds, or APIs. Data can be shown as text, numbers, or images.
- Display online data as watch complications
- Pull data from websites, RSS, XML, JSON APIs
- Show data as text, number, or image
- Supports custom feed parsing
- Track key metrics
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Display any data available online as a complication on your Apple Watch. Keep track of a key metric. Pull data from a website, XML/RSS feed or plist or JSON API. Pulled data can be displayed as text, number or image. Examples include: - Displaying the latest in sports news from public RSS feeds like ESPN or Yahoo Sport. - Daily currency conversion rates - iTunes Top Song - Recent earthquakes - Daring Fireball blog entries, any blogs that support XML RSS feeds really - NASA image of the day Any online feed can be added and parsed according to custom requirements. To use non-secure (http) resources, please activate the http switch in the settings app under Simple C. If you have any questions related to a specific feed and how to parse it, just contact us. If you choose to purchase a SimpleC subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pushover Notifications at 92% against Simple Complications's 40%. Pushover Notifications also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 8 months). Simple Complications's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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. Pushover Notifications sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Simple Complications sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pushover Notifications holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.6K ratings behind it against 14, 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 40% of Simple Complications's.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, Simple Complications every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | Simple Complications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better | 3.4 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.6% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | Audioforge Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
Simple Complications
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
Simple Complications
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
Simple Complications
- Simple C annual subscription$1.99
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