Comparison

iGotify vs Pool Captain

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

Head to head
About

iGotify

Receive and manage push notifications from a Gotify server on your iOS device. Enhance security with biometric locks, customize notification sounds, and view Markdown-formatted messages. Supports multiple users, Docker integration, and various languages.

Highlights
  • Receive push notifications from Gotify server
  • Biometric security (Face ID/Touch ID)
  • Custom notification sounds
  • Markdown support for notifications
  • Message decryption via public key
  • Multi-user and multi-server support
  • Docker integration
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1. Receive Push Notifications: iGotify lets users receive notifications directly from a Gotify server on their iPhone or iPad. These notifications can be used for various applications and integrations like Proxmox and Uptime Kuma. 2. Biometric Security Feature: The app adds an extra layer of security by allowing access to be locked with biometric features like Face ID or Touch ID. This protects sensitive notifications from unauthorized access. 3. Custom Sounds: iGotify allows configuring custom sounds for different notification priority levels. This offers a clear distinction between important and less urgent notifications. 4. Markdown Support: Notifications formatted in Markdown are fully supported. This allows sending and displaying structured and visually appealing notifications. 5. Message Decryption: iGotify decrypts received messages using a public key generated on the iOS device. This ensures the security and confidentiality of the notifications. 6. Multi-User Support: The app supports multiple users, which is particularly useful in environments where several individuals need to receive notifications from one or more Gotify servers. 7. Docker Integration: The app seamlessly works with Docker instances and facilitates the setup of local and remote Gotify servers powered by Docker containers. Users can manage multiple servers and instances through the app. 8. Multi-Language Support: iGotify supports multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, making it accessible to an international user base. Find the plugin guide for receiving messages at https://github.com/androidseb25/iGotify-Notification-Assistent

About

Pool Captain

Features
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Your handicap is what the league assigned you. Your scoring pace is what you are actually doing. Pool Captain logs your matches and works out the level you are really playing at. Yours, and everyone else's on the roster. Seven tools. No account, no ads, no tracking, and it all works in airplane mode. Every screen links to a plain-language guide explaining how its number is worked out, including where a figure is a calibrated estimate rather than a rule off the scoresheet. THE CAPTAIN'S VIEW Log a match in about twenty seconds: innings, defensive shots, points, match points, win or loss. The app turns that into a scoring pace, then grades the pace against the level each player was assigned. • Every player on one axis, so an SL3 and an SL7 can be read side by side • Color says who is pushing up, who is holding and who is soft • Graded on the best 10 of the last 20, and it flags which matches count • That is your lineup conversation, settled before you get to the table APA 9 BALL LOGGING Your pace is points per inning. • Charted against the skill bands, so you can see the level you are tracking toward • Defensive shots taken out of innings, the way the scoresheet does it (probably?) APA 8 BALL LOGGING • Innings per win, innings per rack, and win percentage • Innings shared between both players, handled properly • The same best-10-of-20 window as 9-ball BREAK SPEED: YOUR PHONE AS A RADAR GUN Put the phone on the rail and break normally. All it needs is how far the cue ball travelled and how long it took. • The mic times two sounds, tip on cue ball then cue ball on rack, and turns the gap into mph or km/h • Reads the room's noise floor first, so a loud bar does not fool it (I hope anyway) • Shows you the waveform it heard, with a marker on each sound. Drag one if it guessed wrong • Warns you when it is not sure, rather than quietly reporting a wrong number • Save each one and your break becomes a trend: best, average, and a speed-over-time chart APA 8 BALL: WHAT THE MATCHUP IS WORTH Set two skill levels and the app fills in the rest. • The race each player is on, off the Equalizer chart • Single-game odds, and every score line with its own probability • The match points each line pays, so you can see expected value FARGO MATCH • The same odds engine, driven off two Fargo ratings • Race lengths you set yourself, up to a race to 50 • A BCA-style games handicap, so you can propose a fair spot (17 point style) TABLE DIFFICULTY (Credit: Dr. Dave Alciatore) A bar box and a tournament table are not the same game. • Four tape-measure numbers give a Table Difficulty Factor • A verdict from Too Easy to Too Tough • A plain sentence like "about 12% tougher than a standard table" • Save every room you play in and see them ranked on one bar WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES On your phone. • No sign-up, no network requests of its own, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting • Logs, break history and saved tables sit in the app's private storage • Every log exports to a JSON file you can restore on another phone. This is handy if you are changing team or want to analyze your team using AI The microphone is used only on the break-speed screen, and only while it is listening. Audio is analyzed in memory to find two impacts; no recording is saved or transmitted. What persists is a number. A NOTE ON THE NUMBERS The race charts and 9-ball point requirements are transcribed from APA's own materials. The skill-level bands the comparison screens grade you against are calibrated estimates from match data, not official figures, and the guide says so wherever they are used. Pool Captain is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the American Poolplayers Association, FargoRate, or any league operator or rating service. Table difficulty ratings use Dr. Dave Alciatore's Table Difficulty Factor system. (Who seems like a great guy who probably wouldn't force me to remove this.)

Screenshots

iGotify4 screens
Pool Captain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pool Captain at none against iGotify's 1. Pool Captain also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support 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

Both are free to download. iGotify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pool Captain asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iGotify ships an update monthly, Pool Captain every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iGotify versus Pool Captain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriGotifyPool Captain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian RankJoe Eaton

In-app purchases

1 purchases

iGotify

One-time1
  • Kauf mir ein kühles Getränk$1.99
None

Pool Captain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iGotify free?
iGotify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pool Captain free?
Pool Captain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iGotify or Pool Captain have ads?
Neither iGotify nor Pool Captain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iGotify or Pool Captain?
iGotify ships an update monthly, and Pool Captain every 9 days. Most recently, iGotify was updated on October 7, 2026 and Pool Captain on October 7, 2026.

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