Pushover Notifications vs notifi
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.
notifi
This utility app allows users to receive push notifications via simple HTTP(s) requests. It's designed for embedding into various platforms and services, enabling custom notification systems.
- Receive push notifications
- HTTP(s) request integration
- Multi-platform support
- Embeddable into services
- Custom notification systems
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Push notifications from anything that can make an HTTP request. Send notifi.it a title, and optionally a body, image or link, and it appears on your iPhone, iPad or Mac immediately. https://notifi.it/send?title=hello+world Encrypted. Your device holds the only private key. Notifications are encrypted with your public key, so we cannot read them, and deleted from the server once your device has them. No accounts. The app makes a send key on first launch. Keys can be renamed and revoked per source. Urgent alerts. Mark a key as urgent and its notifications break through Focus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pushover Notifications at 4.8 against notifi's 4.3. Pushover Notifications also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 9) and review sentiment (92% vs 83%). notifi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Pushover Notifications sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. notifi asks for nothing beyond the download.
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 3.8K ratings behind it against 9, 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 83% of notifi's.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, notifi every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | notifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better | 4.3 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.1% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | Max Mitchell |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
notifi
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
notifi
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
notifi
No in-app purchases
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