Comparison

Notify vs Forward

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

Head to head
About

Notify

Transform your thoughts into instant notifications to remember what matters. Schedule reminders, customize themes, and access your history offline. Easily import events and reminders from other apps.

Highlights
  • Create instant notifications
  • Schedule notifications
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Customizable themes
  • Offline functionality
  • Import calendar events
  • Import reminders
Features
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Life’s busy. Remembering shouldn’t be. Notify helps you remember what matters most. It’s your thoughts, turned into instant notifications. We built Notify because we forget things too. Capture a thought before it’s gone and turn it into a lock screen reminder in seconds. Whether it’s something to bring with you, a task for later or an idea you don’t want to lose, just type it and send. You don’t need to choose a date or time to remind yourself now. Notify puts your notes where you’ll see them: on your iPhone lock screen. Use Live Activities for visible reminders you can glance at throughout your day, with a simple way to edit them while they’re active. • Quick reminders, your way Choose a Live Activity, a smaller live notification or a standard notification. Send yourself a quick note now, or schedule a reminder for when you need it. • Capture thoughts even faster Open Notify straight from a lock screen widget. Use Siri to start a reminder, or voice-to-text to get your message down without typing. • Photo reminders Sometimes a picture says it better. Take a photo in Notify and turn it into a Photo Live Activity, so the thing you need to remember is right there on your lock screen. • Ticklists for everyday tasks Keep a short to-do list on your lock screen and tick things off as you go. Schedule a repeating ticklist for your daily routine and start with fresh, unticked tasks each time. • Reminders for later Schedule any notification type once or on a repeating schedule. Change the message, type or schedule when plans change. When a scheduled Live Activity needs you to open Notify to start it, a notification will prompt you. • Notification history and folders Find past reminders, resend a note and organise your notification history into folders with your own names, colours and icons. Deleting a folder keeps your notifications. • Bring your plans together Import events from Apple Calendar and tasks from Apple Reminders to use them as notifications in Notify. • Make Notify feel like yours Choose your theme colour, pick a custom colour and explore a collection of backgrounds, from simple black to animated designs. Create and schedule reminders on your device, even offline. iCloud sync is available with Premium and can be turned off in settings. Notify is free to download. Notify Premium adds photo and ticklist reminders, smaller and standard notifications, history folders, voice-to-text, all backgrounds, imports and more, with a one-time purchase and no subscription. Got a thought you don’t want to forget? Send it to yourself.

About

Forward

Features
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Forward helps you finish things. Choose a goal. Work on it for 15 minutes. Watch yourself move one step forward on a 3D path. Repeat tomorrow. Your progress is permanent. Miss a day and you may lose your streak, but your steps never disappear. They're proof you did the work. Visual 3D paths (forests, deserts, candy lanes) show your journey. Journals capture your progress. Camps protect your streak when life happens. Eleanor Steps reward you for facing fears. Earn badges, unlock hidden 80s games, build a Library of Achievement. What makes Forward different: It includes optional project management tools, session timers, idea generators, and quick lists—everything in one place. Hit a 10-day streak, play the fruit machine. Hit 20 days, unlock a secret retro game. Forward looks like nothing else because it treats your goals like games worth playing. No tracking. No ads. No premium upsells. Actually free. Built by someone who spent 25 years stuck on goals and needed this to exist - not a company trying to monetize you.

Screenshots

Notify4 screens
Forward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forward at none against Notify's 1. Forward also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Notify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Forward asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notify ships an update every 11 days, Forward fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Notify versus Forward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotifyForward
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDominic PonniahAdrian Bentley

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notify

One-time1
  • Notify Premium$5.99
None

Forward

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notify free?
Notify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forward free?
Forward is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notify or Forward have ads?
Neither Notify nor Forward shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notify or Forward?
Notify ships an update every 11 days, and Forward fortnightly. Most recently, Notify was updated on October 24, 2026 and Forward on October 12, 2026.

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