Comparison

Notify vs Tillsa

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

Tillsa

Features
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Tillsa is short for "tillsammans" — Swedish for together. Because a shopping list is only worth having if it's the same list for everyone who might end up in the shop. ONE LIST FOR EVERYONE YOU LIVE WITH Share a list and edit it together. Tick something off in the store and it disappears from everyone's list within seconds — so nobody buys milk twice, and nobody comes home without the eggs. TYPE "MILK" AND IT LANDS UNDER FOOD Items sort themselves into themes. Themes belong to the list, not the app, so the renovation list gets Hardware and Paint while the party list gets Food and Decorations. Rename them, recolour them, or take one of the suggestions. ONE LINK, ANY DEVICE Family on iPhone and iPad join through iCloud. Anyone else can open the same link in a browser and read the list — and edit it with a free Tillsa account. SYNCS THROUGH YOUR ICLOUD Every list lives in your own iCloud and syncs between your Apple devices there. Only a list you share with someone outside iCloud moves to our servers; the rest never touch them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No analytics, no ads, no tracking, no account needed. Your lists are yours. WORKS OFFLINE Every change is saved on your device first and synced when you're back online. No spinners in the store basement. DONE ISN'T GONE Ticked items move to the list's archive — or stay struck through on the list, if you'd rather see what you've already got. Nothing is deleted on a timer. Restore any time. ALSO • Quantities and notes on any item • Export any list as Markdown or plain text • A read-only copy of every list in Files › iCloud Drive › Tillsa • English and Swedish • Sign in with Apple, Google or email when you do want an account — and delete it from Settings whenever you like Tillsa is free, with no limits on lists or items. Sharing within iCloud is free. Sharing with people outside iCloud needs a free Tillsa account. Stop texting each other the list. Download Tillsa, share a list, and never buy milk twice again. Terms of Service: https://tillsa.se/terms

Screenshots

Notify4 screens
Tillsa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tillsa at 3 against Notify's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Tillsa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Notify versus Tillsa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotifyTillsa
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDominic PonniahState Creative

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notify

One-time1
  • Notify Premium$5.99
2 purchases

Tillsa

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$22.991 Year

Questions

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

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