Pushover Notifications vs Notification Receiver
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.
Notification Receiver
This utility ensures notifications are delivered reliably through multiple channels. It presents these notifications to the user with customizable priority options.
- Multiple notification delivery paths
- Guaranteed notification delivery
- User-facing notification display
- Priority-based notification options
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Receives notifications over several paths therefore ensuring delivery. Notifications are displayed to the end-user with different options for different priorities
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pushover Notifications at 4.8 against Notification Receiver's 1.0. Pushover Notifications also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Notification Receiver's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Pushover Notifications sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Notification Receiver asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pushover Notifications holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, Notification Receiver every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | Notification Receiver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| 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 | 9.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | New Bridges |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
Notification Receiver
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
Notification Receiver
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
Notification Receiver
No in-app purchases
Questions
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