Comparison

Pushover Notifications vs Dashboard for TrueNAS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Dashboard for TrueNAS

Monitor your TrueNAS server's performance and manage applications directly from your iPhone. View real-time data on CPU, RAM, network, and storage, and access your hosted services with auto-login.

Highlights
  • Real-time server monitoring
  • CPU, RAM, and GPU usage
  • Network throughput graphs
  • Disk and pool health status
  • Manage hosted applications
  • Auto-login to web interfaces
  • Browse SMB shares
Features
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Dashboard for TrueNAS is a secure mobile companion for TrueNAS SCALE. Monitor your NAS and perform common management actions from your iPhone over your local network or VPN. MONITORING • CPU utilization, temperature, load and per-core activity • Memory availability, ZFS ARC cache, services usage and ARC hit ratio • NVIDIA GPU temperature, utilization, VRAM and power when the optional GPU metrics service is installed • Live network throughput and interface link state • Storage pools, capacity, health, topology, fragmentation, snapshots and scrub status • Disk model, size, type and temperature • TrueNAS Apps, virtual machines, services, active jobs, alerts and replication tasks CONTROL • Start, stop and restart supported services • Start and stop TrueNAS Apps • Start, stop and restart virtual machines • Start pool scrubs • Reboot or shut down the NAS with confirmation • Dismiss or snooze alerts locally in the app CONNECTION • Uses the supported TrueNAS JSON-RPC 2.0 API over secure WebSocket • Authenticates with TrueNAS username and password • Capability detection hides values and controls unavailable on the connected server • Read-only mode, data freshness indicators and connection diagnostics • Works over local HTTPS or a secure VPN such as Tailscale or WireGuard GPU monitoring is optional; all other monitoring and control use the unmodified TrueNAS API.

Screenshots

Pushover Notifications4 screens
Dashboard for TrueNAS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pushover Notifications at 92% against Dashboard for TrueNAS's 0%. Pushover Notifications also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.8 vs 2.0). Dashboard for TrueNAS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pushover Notifications is free to download; Dashboard for TrueNAS costs $1.99 up front. Pushover Notifications sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dashboard for TrueNAS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pushover Notifications holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 3.9K ratings behind it against 1, 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 0% of Dashboard for TrueNAS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, Dashboard for TrueNAS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pushover Notifications versus Dashboard for TrueNAS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPushover NotificationsDashboard for TrueNAS
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (3.9K ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews92.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.9K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPushover, LLCAdriano Melnic

Customer experience

Pushover Notifications

All ratings3,818 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews463 reviews
Positive92.0%
Neutral1.3%
Negative6.7%

Dashboard for TrueNAS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Dashboard for TrueNAS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pushover Notifications

One-time3
  • Pushover License$4.99
  • Tip$4.99
  • Tip$9.99
None

Dashboard for TrueNAS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pushover Notifications free?
Pushover Notifications is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dashboard for TrueNAS free?
Dashboard for TrueNAS costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pushover Notifications or Dashboard for TrueNAS?
Pushover Notifications is rated higher. Pushover Notifications averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Dashboard for TrueNAS averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pushover Notifications or Dashboard for TrueNAS have ads?
Neither Pushover Notifications nor Dashboard for TrueNAS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pushover Notifications or Dashboard for TrueNAS?
Pushover Notifications ships an update every 4 weeks, and Dashboard for TrueNAS every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pushover Notifications was updated on October 26, 2026 and Dashboard for TrueNAS on October 24, 2026.

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