Pushover Notifications vs Dashboard for TrueNAS
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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | Dashboard for TrueNAS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.9K ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | Adriano Melnic |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
Dashboard for TrueNAS
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
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
Dashboard for TrueNAS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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