Pushover Notifications vs Allarise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pushover Notifications
This service allows you to send custom alerts from various web apps and devices directly to your mobile devices and desktop. It offers seamless integration with tools like IFTTT and network monitoring systems, with an Apple Watch app for on-the-go notifications.
- Send alerts from web apps
- Integrates with IFTTT and scripts
- Supports IoT devices and webhooks
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Free 30-day trial
- One-time in-app purchase for unlimited use
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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.
Allarise
This app enhances your morning routine by integrating with smart home devices. Set reliable alarms that trigger custom actions like adjusting lights or scenes. It also offers wake-up challenges and calming sleep sounds for a personalized start and end to your day.
- Reliable alarm engine independent of ringer/mute
- Home Assistant MQTT integration
- Wake-up missions (math, shake, HA action)
- Calming sleep sounds with timers
- Customizable wallpaper packs
- Morning weather forecast integration
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Allarise turns your alarm into the starting point for a smarter morning routine. Wake up with simple, reliable alarms that connect with Home Assistant to adjust lights, scenes, devices, and routines so your home starts the day with you. Add wake-up missions when you need help waking up, wind down with calming sleep sounds, and enjoy a clean, ad-free experience without accounts or tracking. ALARM ENGINE - Allarise plays at the volume you set, independent of your ringer and mute switch. Alarms are designed to fire reliably when your phone is muted, on Do Not Disturb, or locked. - Set recurring schedules, customize snooze durations, and configure each alarm independently. - Free includes 2 alarms. Pro unlocks unlimited alarms. HOME ASSISTANT INTEGRATION - Turn your alarm into part of your smart home. - Allarise includes full two-way MQTT integration with Home Assistant, so your alarms can do more than just make noise. Your alarms can publish their status to Home Assistant, trigger automations, and expose controls you can use as part of your smart home routine. - Add buttons to alarms in Allarise to trigger Home Assistant automations directly from the app. Use them to control lights, scenes, devices, routines, and more from the same place you manage your alarms. - Home Assistant can also send commands back to Allarise. Create alarms, edit alarms, control sleep sounds, arm alarm zones, sync alarm status, and build deeper automations around your morning and bedtime routines. - Connect through your own self-hosted MQTT broker. A step-by-step setup guide and interactive MQTT Payload Builder are available at https://allarise.app to make setup easier. WAKE-UP MISSIONS - Make sure you are actually awake before dismissing your alarm. - Dismiss alarms by solving math problems, shaking your phone, or completing a Home Assistant action. Missions are configurable per alarm, - so you can choose the wake-up challenge that works best for you. SLEEP SOUNDS - Fall asleep to rain, ocean waves, white noise, and more. - Use lock screen controls, adjustable sleep timers, and fade-out transitions. Sleep sounds can also be controlled remotely from Home Assistant using MQTT too. - Pro unlocks custom imported alarm tones and sleep sounds. WALLPAPER PACKS - Customize the look of your alarm and home screens with curated wallpaper packs. Each pack includes light and dark variants designed to look great out of the box. - Unlock all wallpaper packs with Pro. MORNING WEATHER - See today's forecast when your alarm goes off, powered by Apple WeatherKit. - Weather cards can be enabled on up to two alarms. PRIVACY FIRST - No analytics. No ads. No Allarise account required. - Your alarm data stays on your device. MQTT credentials are stored securely in the iOS Keychain. - Allarise only communicates with the services needed for the features you choose to use, including Apple’s native services such as WeatherKit and the App Store, your own self-hosted MQTT broker if you enable Home Assistant integration, and the National Weather Service if you enable NWS alerts. - When NWS alerts are enabled, your location is included in the request to the National Weather Service so Allarise can retrieve alerts for your area. Your location is not stored by Allarise or sent to our servers. - Nothing is sent to us, ever. THE LEGAL STUFF Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://allarise.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://allarise.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pushover Notifications at 4K against Allarise's 2. Pushover Notifications also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 1). Allarise's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On price, rating, 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 Allarise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Allarise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushover Notifications has 4K ratings behind it against 2, 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 100% of Allarise's.
Pushover Notifications ships an update monthly, Allarise every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushover Notifications | Allarise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushover, LLC | DOMORE TECH LLC |
Customer experience
Pushover Notifications
Allarise
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
Allarise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushover Notifications
- Pushover License$4.99
- Tip$4.99
- Tip$9.99
Allarise
- HaWake Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- HaWake Pro - One Time Purchase$6.99









