Comparison

Notify vs LoopPDF

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

Head to head
About

Notify

Receive instant alerts for website changes, RSS feed updates, or script statuses directly on your device. This app offers a private and simple monitoring solution without requiring servers or complex setup. It provides visual change detection, custom notifications via webhooks, and home screen widgets for at-a-glance status.

Highlights
  • Website and RSS feed monitoring
  • Instant alerts via webhooks
  • Visual change detection
  • No server setup required
  • Home screen widgets
  • Cross-device sync (optional)
Features
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Monitor Websites & RSS Feeds. Get Alerts From Anything. No Servers Required. Get instant alerts when a website changes, an RSS feed updates, or your own scripts and devices need your attention. No accounts, no servers, no technical setup. START MONITORING IN SECONDS Add any website or RSS feed with a tap. Send notifications from any script, server, or web app with a single webhook call. Your device does the work, so there is nothing to host and nothing to sign up for. WATCH THE WEB • Visual change detection with side-by-side comparisons, so you see exactly what changed • RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed monitoring: paste a site address and Notify! finds the feeds for you • Check intervals from 15 minutes to 7 days, per site • CSS selectors narrow a watch to one part of a page, like a price or a stock status ALERTS FROM YOUR OWN SCRIPTS • Every device gets a personal webhook URL that anything can call: a shell script, a CI pipeline, Home Assistant, Homebridge, or plain curl • Custom sender icons and full-size images • Device Groups give several devices one shared URL, so one call reaches every screen you own LIVE ACTIVITIES • Put a live tile on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, driven by the same simple URLs • Progress bars move in place and countdowns tick on their own, even while the app is closed • Made for anything with a duration: a build, a backup, a delivery, a 3D print, a wash cycle BEACONS: MONITORING IN REVERSE • Instead of telling you when something happens, a beacon tells you when something STOPS happening • Paste its ping URL into a cron job or backup script. If the ping does not arrive in time, you hear about it • The only way to find out that the thing which was supposed to alert you has itself gone quiet EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN • Home screen widgets, and a full year of searchable history SIMPLE FOR EVERYONE, DEEP FOR PROS No coding needed for websites and feeds. Developers get a documented API, Shortcuts and Siri support. YOUR PRIVACY, YOUR CHOICE Local Mode: everything runs on device. No external connections. Notifications Only: a pure push receiver for your webhooks and automations. Server Mode: connect your own ChangeDetection.io instance. MDM ready: alert your teams across managed devices. Notify! can run in local-only mode, which shares nothing but a random device ID and token not tied to any personal information. Notifications Only and Server modes process data with your consent to enable cloud functions such as automation tools, cross-device delivery, and Shortcuts support, and are likewise not tied to any personal information. WHY NOTIFY! Traditional monitoring wants a server, a subscription, and an afternoon. Notify! works in seconds, whether you are tracking a price, following a release feed, or catching alerts from your own code. Start simple and go as deep as you like. Download now and start monitoring in seconds.

About

LoopPDF

Features
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Turn paper into clean PDFs and copy text with OCR using LoopPDF, the free document scanner for iPhone, iPad and Mac. POINT, SCAN, SAVE Open the camera and bring all four corners into view. LoopPDF detects the page, counts down and captures it automatically. Tap the scan button whenever you want to capture immediately. Perspective correction straightens pages photographed at an angle. COPY TEXT WITH OCR Recognise text in new scans and saved PDFs with Apple Vision. Select and copy text from one page or copy all pages in order. Recognition runs on your device whenever you open Text, so your saved scans can benefit from improvements to Apple's text recognition. MULTIPLE PAGES, ONE PDF Scan another page, review the result and drag the thumbnails into the right order. Crop, rotate and adjust the colour treatment before saving. Add more pages to an existing PDF whenever you need to. YOUR FILES, ORGANISED Name your PDF and choose a folder inside LoopPDF. Browse subfolders, search by filename and open scans in the built-in PDF viewer. See page counts, file sizes, dates and sync status at a glance. READY ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES Save PDFs to your LoopPDF folder in iCloud Drive and continue on your iPhone, iPad or Mac using the same Apple Account. If iCloud is unavailable, your scans stay on the device and move to iCloud when it becomes available. PRESERVE THE DETAILS Save scans at their original resolution without additional lossy image compression. Keep small details in your documents, with larger files that use more storage. SAVE AND SHARE Send a PDF through Mail, AirDrop or the system share sheet directly after scanning or from the PDF viewer. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Document detection, image processing and OCR happen on your device. We do not receive your scans or add watermarks, logos or other branding. No ads, no subscription, no tracking and no separate LoopPDF account. MAKE IT YOURS Choose an automatic capture delay from 0.5 to 4 seconds. On Mac, use the built-in camera, an external webcam or an available Continuity Camera. Camera access is required for scanning. Syncing requires iCloud Drive and the same Apple Account on your devices. Apple's iCloud storage limits apply. Support: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#support Privacy: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#privacy

Screenshots

Notify4 screens
LoopPDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

Notify and LoopPDF are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notify ships an update every 5 days, LoopPDF weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Notify versus LoopPDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotifyLoopPDF
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLVL35 LLCMurani Consultancy BV

In-app purchases

None

Notify

No in-app purchases

None

LoopPDF

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notify free?
Notify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LoopPDF free?
LoopPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notify or LoopPDF have ads?
Neither Notify nor LoopPDF shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notify or LoopPDF?
Notify ships an update every 5 days, and LoopPDF weekly. Most recently, Notify was updated on October 30, 2026 and LoopPDF on October 31, 2026.

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