Pushover Notifications vs PagerDuty
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.
PagerDuty
This app helps organizations manage digital operations and resolve incidents quickly. It provides real-time alerts, incident response tools, and team scheduling to ensure seamless customer experiences.
- Push notification alerts with custom sounds
- Respond to incidents (acknowledge, resolve, reassign)
- View incident details and resolution timelines
- Manage on-call schedules and team overrides
- Create new incidents and loop in responders
- Execute custom actions on incidents
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PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Through its SaaS-based platform, PagerDuty arms developers, IT operations, support, security, and business leaders to prevent and resolve incidents when seconds matter. Over 12,000 businesses including GE, Vodafone, Box, and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations. PagerDuty for iOS allows you to: * Receive unlimited push notification alerts and set custom sounds for alerts * Easily access and respond to open incidents (acknowledge, resolve, or reassign) * View incident details, grouped alerts, and resolution timelines at a glance * View your on-call timeline and team schedules, and book overrides for yourself or your teammates * Access a contact list of all users in your account and their contact information * Create new incidents directly from the mobile app * Loop in responders for additional help * Execute custom actions (like restarting servers, running diagnostics, etc.) on incidents NOTE: A PagerDuty user account is required to use this application. Some features’ availability depends on your PagerDuty plan.
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Verdict
Pushover Notifications and PagerDuty both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 92% of Pushover Notifications's written reviews are positive against 25% of PagerDuty's. Pushover Notifications also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). PagerDuty's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. PagerDuty asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Pushover Notifications against 4.8 for PagerDuty. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.8K and 5.2K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Pushover Notifications's written reviews are positive against 25% of PagerDuty's.
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, PagerDuty weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) | 4.8 (5.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better | 24.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K | 5.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | PagerDuty Inc. |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
PagerDuty
User reviews
Pushover Notifications
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fantastic service
- 👍 Couldn't be easier
- 👍 Best App on my phone for awareness of energy efficient house
- 👍 Really good app
- 👍 Truly excellent
Room to improve
- 🐛 Stopped working after I paid for it
- 🐛 Hasn't worked yet
- 🐛 Charged twice for liscense
- 🐛 Needs volume for other things besides critical
- 🐛 Encrypted message
PagerDuty
From 5.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Excellent integration with various services
- 🚀 Great functionality and all the tools you need
- 👍 Prefer the app to browser version
Room to improve
- 🐛 Font sizing issue
- 🐛 Unable to change alert sound
- 👎 The widget is clutter
- 👎 Stop waking me up
- 👎 Stop review begging
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
PagerDuty
Reported bugs
19 issues- Font sizing issue
- Unable to change alert sound
- Cannot change settings
- Couldn't acknowledge incident
- Crashes on startup
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- Crashes frequently
- Unresponsive after alerts
- Vibration and sound settings not obeyed
- App unresponsive after alert
- Login Fail
- Major bug in update
- Logs out me every few weeks
- Crashes
- Crashes
- Crashes
- Useful...now broken
- Still buggy
- Couldn't acknowledge incident
- Couldn't acknowledge incident
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to use custom sound for emergencies
- Add ability to use custom sound for emergencies
- Add ability to put services in maintenance mode
- Improve Resolved Incidents view to show oldest first
- Provide easy way to allow calls/texts during DND
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
PagerDuty
No in-app purchases
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