Comparison

Notify App vs Message Recovery

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

Head to head
About

Notify App

Receive push notifications from web applications directly on your mobile device. Easily connect by scanning a QR code to get real-time alerts for important updates, bypassing email overload. Developers can integrate this service to offer native push notifications without building a full mobile app.

Highlights
  • Receive web app notifications on mobile
  • QR code scanning for easy connection
  • Real-time and direct alerts
  • Clickable notifications to web context
  • API for developers to send notifications
  • Bypass web push limitations
Features
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Notify is the universal push notifications apps. Receive notifications on your phone, from apps on the web. It’s kind of like Google Authenticator, but for notifications ... from web apps and SaaS products that don’t have their own mobile app. From a supported web app, simply scan the provided QR code, link your account, and boom — you get notifications from the web, straight to your mobile. FOR USERS Easy connect: One QR code scan and you're in. Plus you can connect multiple supported web apps (with more apps offering support for Notify each week). Real-time & direct: Instant notifications for the things that matter. No more sifting through your 100’s of emails and missing important actions or updates. Take action: Go straight into the right context; simply click on a notification and be taken to your browser to pick things up. FOR BUILDERS Don’t build the app: Offer native push notifications without building an app. Building a mobile app just for notifications is overkill … and many web apps don’t need a fully built out experience natively either. Don’t wrangle the notifications: Instead of going deep on notification servers, pub/sub, implementing third-party SDKs and (way) more… just use our simple API to notify a user. Offer truly native push: Bypass limits of ‘web push’, headaches of service workers, manifest files. We’re developer-first: Built by developers to ‘scratch our own itch’ with our web apps. We’ve created the developer experience we’d hope and expect. See you in the Notifications Centre!

About

Message Recovery

Regularly back up your SMS and popular messaging app conversations to restore them anytime. Keep your chats safe and organized, ensuring important messages are always accessible. Offers secure data protection with encryption and local storage.

Highlights
  • Robust backup and restore for SMS and chat messages
  • User-friendly interface for easy navigation
  • Secure data protection with on-device encryption
  • Fast message sending without adding contacts
  • Regularly updated with new features
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Warbi turns the chats you export from your messaging app into archives you can read, search and keep on your iPhone. It also comes with 15 everyday tools for messages, text and photos. Your chats, kept as archives • Export a chat from your messaging app as a .zip or .txt file and open it in Warbi, or send it to Warbi from the share sheet. • Photos, videos, voice notes and files from the export stay next to their messages. • No export? Pick screenshots of a chat, and Warbi reads the messages from them on your iPhone. • Search every message, browse photos, videos, voice notes, files and links in one place, and jump to any date. Your chat recap • See a chat's story in a few cards: your favorite hour, who wrote more, your longest streak and your most used words. • Share a summary card of a chat with friends. Premium • Unlimited archives. • The full recap and detailed stats: messages by hour and weekday, a year calendar, records and favorites. • The links, phone numbers, addresses and dates mentioned in a chat, ready to open. • Voice note transcripts you can search. They're made on your iPhone when your language allows it. • Export a chat as a PDF, as bubbles or a plain transcript, with or without photos and phone numbers. • Recovery Mode: an archive you delete in Warbi waits 7 days in Recently Deleted, so you can put it back. It covers Warbi's own archives only and can't bring back messages deleted in other apps. Everyday tools • Quick Send: open a chat with a number without saving it to your contacts. • Chat link and QR code that open a chat with you. • Number fixer: turns any number into international format. • Reminders to message someone at the right time. • Text formatter for bold, italic, strikethrough and monospace. • Fancy text, kaomoji and symbols, and an emoji finder. • Text repeater, and text to speech you can listen to or share as audio. • Voice note converter: turns .opus voice notes into M4A or WAV files that play anywhere. • Screenshot stitcher, no-crop profile photo, photo and video compressor, and screenshot blur to hide names and faces before you share. Private by design • Your archives are stored on your iPhone. Warbi has no account and no servers of its own. • Warbi can't open your messaging app, its backups or anything you haven't exported. It only works with the files and screenshots you choose. About Warbi Premium Warbi Premium is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. Eligible new subscribers start with a 3-day trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://warbi.serpinty.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://warbi.serpinty.com/privacy Warbi is an independent app and isn't affiliated with any messaging service.

Screenshots

Notify App4 screens
Message Recovery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Message Recovery at 4.4 against Notify App's 3.9. Message Recovery also leads on review sentiment (37% vs 0%) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 14). Notify App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Message Recovery sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Notify App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Message Recovery holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Message Recovery has 1.4K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Notify App's written reviews are positive against 37% of Message Recovery's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notify App ships an update weekly, Message Recovery every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Notify App versus Message Recovery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotify AppMessage Recovery
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings)4.4 (1.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews36.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings141.4K — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConnor DisselkoenSerpinty

Customer experience

Notify App

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

Message Recovery

All ratings1,389 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive36.8%
Neutral1.1%
Negative62.1%

Bugs and requests

Notify App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Message Recovery

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • No response from support team

Requested features

1 request
  • Support for Messenger on iOS

In-app purchases

None

Notify App

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Message Recovery

Subscriptions8
  • Unlimited Backup - Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Weekly Pro Plan$4.997 Days
  • Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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  • Weekly - Recovery Messages$5.997 Days
  • Monthly Promotion$8.991 Month
  • WMR - Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Annual$9.991 Year
  • Monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Notify App free?
Notify App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Message Recovery free?
Message Recovery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notify App or Message Recovery?
Message Recovery is rated higher. Notify App averages 3.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Message Recovery averages 4.4 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Notify App or Message Recovery have ads?
Neither Notify App nor Message Recovery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notify App or Message Recovery?
Notify App ships an update weekly, and Message Recovery every 5 days. Most recently, Notify App was updated on October 24, 2026 and Message Recovery on October 28, 2026.

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