Pushover Notifications vs PushMeAlert
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.
PushMeAlert
Send custom push notifications with images, sounds, and URLs. Automate alerts for website visitors, security systems, orders, server status, and goal achievements through a simple API.
- Send notifications with images
- Define custom URLs for notification taps
- Choose from multiple notification sounds
- API for automated alerts
- Code examples included
- Continuous feature development
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It is even possible to send an image within the notification (eg. snapshot security camera) or define an external url to be opened when clicking on the notification. For each message you can choose to play no sound, the device default sound or 4 other sounds. Sample applications: * push notification at (specific) website visitor * push notification when your alarm system is activated * push notification if new webshop order * push notification if your own server is down * push notification if goal is reached * ... This via simple requests to our API. Code examples in the app. New features are being developed continuously.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pushover Notifications at 4.8 against PushMeAlert's 3.5. Pushover Notifications also leads on ratings volume (3.6K vs 2). PushMeAlert's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 PushMeAlert 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 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, PushMeAlert every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | PushMeAlert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | Jurgen Togni |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
PushMeAlert
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
PushMeAlert
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
PushMeAlert
- User license (Unlock trial)$17.99
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