OnCue vs SelfPush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OnCue
Schedule timely alerts for tasks, reminders, or events. This app offers a clean interface for creating and managing notifications without requiring an account or internet connection. It ensures you never miss important moments with its reliable on-device functionality.
- Schedule notifications at exact times
- Create and manage reminders easily
- Organized list of upcoming alerts
- Delete notifications when no longer needed
- On-device functionality
- No account or internet required
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OnCue is a simple and reliable app that helps you schedule notifications at the exact time you need them. Whether it’s for a daily task, an important reminder, or an important event, this app ensures you never miss a moment. With a clean design and intuitive controls, OnCue makes it easy to create and manage reminders. You can set alerts for future times, view them in an organized list, and delete them when they’re no longer needed. OnCue also includes a brief onboarding experience to get you started quickly, and it works entirely on your device — no account or internet connection required. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
SelfPush
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The notes that get through to you are the ones you wrote yourself. SelfPush lets you write a few lines today and have them show up on your lock screen later, as an ordinary push notification, when you are most likely to need them. WRITE NOW, RECEIVE LATER - Save short messages in your own words, as many as you like - Pick a daily push time in Settings. Each day SelfPush sends one of your saved messages, picked at random - Or give a single message its own date and time, for the morning of an exam, a hard conversation or a deadline - Tap the push to read the message full screen, signed "from your past self" - Edit, reschedule or delete any message whenever you like THREE TABS Messages holds your list and shows the next push. Alerts is a history of the pushes that have already arrived. Settings has the push time, the daily on and off switch and a test push that lands right away, so you can see how it will look. GOOD TO KNOW SelfPush schedules your daily pushes two weeks ahead on the phone and tops that window up whenever you open the app, so open it now and then. Delivery also follows your phone's notification and battery settings. The notification prompt appears when you set a push time, schedule a message or send a test push, not when you launch the app. ABOUT THE AD SelfPush is free and shows one small banner at the bottom of the Alerts tab. The Messages tab, Settings and the full-screen message have no ads. Where the law requires it (the EEA and UK), a consent form asks about ads before any of them load, and Settings gets an Ad privacy options row for changing your answer later. On iPhone, the system tracking prompt appears only if that form allows it. Decline either one and every feature keeps working. There is no account and no server of ours. Your messages, schedule and history are stored on the phone, and the ad request is the only thing the app sends out on its own. LANGUAGES SelfPush speaks English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese, switching with your phone's language. Questions or feedback: contact+selfpush@peppertree.so
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SelfPush at none against OnCue's 3. SelfPush also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). OnCue's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. OnCue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SelfPush asks for nothing beyond the download.
OnCue ships an update every 5 weeks, SelfPush every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OnCue | SelfPush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frank Schipani | Peppertree |
In-app purchases
OnCue
- Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- Pro$3.99
SelfPush
No in-app purchases









