Comparison

Notify vs OnPace

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

OnPace

Features
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OnPace. Confront the gap. OnPace is an accountability engine for three tasks a day. No more. OnPace will not praise you. OnPace will not let tasks sit in a list for three weeks. OnPace will force you, every single night, to decide what to do with every task you did not finish. What OnPace does differently - Three tasks a day. Enforced. Not a guideline. Three is the number that forces you to choose, and choosing is the actual work. - Carry strike escalation. Every time you push a task forward, it receives a red tally mark. On the third carry, the app forces a decision. Do it now, schedule a specific future date, or drop it on the record. There is no fourth strike. - Close Day ritual. Every task unresolved at the end of the day gets an explicit decision. Carry, complete, or drop. No silent rollover. No escape route. - Pattern intelligence in the Pro tier. A fourteen-day behavioural profile that computes which day of the week you are lying to yourself on, which category of task you consistently avoid, and the probability that any new task will be carried before you ever hit save. - Integrity score and integrity streak. The streak is a record of consecutive days with zero carries. Dropping a task keeps the streak alive. Carrying it breaks the streak. The score is a per-day reading of how honest your resolution ritual was. Zero praise. Zero gamification. Zero casino mechanics. Just the facts of what you did. OnPace is probably not for you if You want encouragement. You want a colour-coded dashboard. You want to plan forty tasks and feel good about finishing twelve. You want an app that makes to-do lists fun. OnPace is for you if You have tried every productivity app on this store. You know exactly what to do. You are avoiding the feeling of doing it. You want something that makes the avoidance harder than the task. About the Pro tier Pro is not more features. Pro is the app becoming mathematically self-aware of your avoidance. It recomputes your fourteen-day profile every night during Close Day and uses it to predict, warn, and analyse. The pattern context sent to our AI is roughly two hundred tokens of metadata. It does not include your task titles or any task content. Backups are encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM before they ever leave it. The encryption key lives in your iPhone Keychain and never touches our servers. Confront the gap. Subscription information OnPace Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks AI Insight, pace alerts, calendar sync, pattern profile, and encrypted cloud backup. - OnPace Pro Monthly. 4.99 USD per month. Price may vary by region. - OnPace Pro Yearly. 29.99 USD per year. Price may vary by region. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions and cancel renewal in your iOS account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy policy: https://onpace.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Notify4 screens
OnPace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Notify at every 11 days against OnPace's monthly. OnPace's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Notify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and OnPace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notify ships an update every 11 days, OnPace monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Notify versus OnPace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotifyOnPace
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDominic PonniahKaro Bonas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notify

One-time1
  • Notify Premium$5.99
2 purchases

OnPace

Subscriptions2
  • OnPace Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Notify free?
Notify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OnPace free?
OnPace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Notify or OnPace have ads?
Neither Notify nor OnPace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notify or OnPace?
Notify ships an update every 11 days, and OnPace monthly. Most recently, Notify was updated on October 24, 2026 and OnPace on October 24, 2026.

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