Pushover Notifications vs 1st Flight
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.
1st Flight
This app guides users through creating mobile-first marketing campaigns, including push notifications and surveys. It explores audience features, A/B testing, and message optimization. Users can connect their account to send messages to their own device and learn about mobile marketing strategies.
- Create push notifications
- Design surveys
- Explore audience features
- Learn A/B testing
- Send messages to your device
- Optimize mobile marketing strategies
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Download 1st Flight today and learn how Airship can power mobile-first marketing. The app guides you through creating push notifications, surveys, and other messages that you can send to your own device. You’ll also learn about audience- and event-related features, A/B testing, and more. Unleash your creativity, optimize your strategies, and achieve remarkable success in mobile marketing. Try it it now! Create an account at go.airship.com. We’ll email you a magic link so you can connect your account with the 1st Flight app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 1st Flight at none against Pushover Notifications's 3. 1st Flight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Pushover Notifications's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (3.6K vs 10). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. 1st Flight asks for nothing beyond the download.
1st Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.6K ratings behind it against 10, 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 100% of 1st Flight's.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, 1st Flight every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | 1st Flight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.6K ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | Urban Airship Inc. |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
1st Flight
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
1st Flight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
1st Flight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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