Comparison

Recall Contacts+ vs Notify Alarm

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

Head to head
About

Recall Contacts+

This app organizes your address book by the exact day each contact was added, displaying them as a timeline. It allows you to relive key moments and quickly identify recently edited contacts. All processing is done on your device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Contact timeline by addition date
  • View contacts added a month/year ago
  • Spot recently edited contacts
  • Private, on-device processing
  • No account or cloud backup
Features
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Every person in your phone has a start date, but your Contacts app usually keeps it hidden. Recall Contacts shows you that missing story. It organizes your entire address book by the exact day you added each contact, with the newest entries first. That means you can scroll through years of connections and see when someone joined your phone, not just who they are. What you can do: - Browse your contacts as a timeline, grouped by the exact day you added each person - Relive key moments, like birthdays and join-date anniversaries, by seeing who was added a month or a year ago - Quickly spot what’s new by catching recently edited contacts at a glance Private by design: everything runs on your device. No account to create, no cloud backup, no tracking, and no data leaves your phone. Open Recall Contacts and scroll back through the people who got you here. Privacy Policy: https://recallcontacts.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://recallcontacts.app/terms

About

Notify Alarm

This app transforms critical notifications into audible alarms. Set custom rules based on apps, keywords, or content to ensure important alerts, like security warnings or urgent messages, are never missed. It helps prioritize what truly matters, ensuring you get attention for vital information.

Highlights
  • Custom notification rules
  • Keyword and content matching
  • App-based notification filtering
  • Alarm-style reminders
  • Prioritize important alerts
  • Simple and focused configuration
Features
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Some notifications are too important to miss. Notify Alarm helps important notifications actually get your attention when it matters. Notifications can disappear in a moment, get buried among dozens of others, or simply go unnoticed. Notify Alarm lets you create rules based on apps, keywords, and notification content, then turn matching notifications into stronger alarm-style reminders. Use it for: • Smart home and security alerts • Find My notifications • Glucose monitoring warnings • Urgent work messages • Late-night messages from family • Important emails from specific senders or subjects • Long-awaited delivery or pickup notifications • Flight, train, or appointment reminders • School or childcare messages • Banking, payment, or account security alerts • On-call, server, or system monitoring alerts You don’t need every notification to be louder — only the ones that really matter. Notify Alarm is designed to be simple, focused, and easy to configure, so important notifications can do what notifications are supposed to do: get your attention.

Screenshots

Recall Contacts+4 screens
Notify Alarm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Notify Alarm at 3 against Recall Contacts+'s 1. Recall Contacts+'s advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, rating, 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. Recall Contacts+ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Notify Alarm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Recall Contacts+ against 5.0 for Notify Alarm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall Contacts+ ships an update every 5 days, Notify Alarm every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recall Contacts+ versus Notify Alarm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecall Contacts+Notify Alarm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Shirley Company龙林 武

Customer experience

Recall Contacts+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Notify Alarm

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Recall Contacts+

Subscriptions1
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
One-time1
  • Lifetime$14.99
1 purchases

Notify Alarm

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Recall Contacts+ free?
Recall Contacts+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notify Alarm free?
Notify Alarm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recall Contacts+ or Notify Alarm?
Recall Contacts+ and Notify Alarm are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Recall Contacts+ or Notify Alarm have ads?
Neither Recall Contacts+ nor Notify Alarm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall Contacts+ or Notify Alarm?
Recall Contacts+ ships an update every 5 days, and Notify Alarm every 3 days. Most recently, Recall Contacts+ was updated on October 31, 2026 and Notify Alarm on October 25, 2026.

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