Comparison

NotiSync vs Naru

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

Head to head
About

NotiSync

Seamlessly mirror notifications from your other devices to your iPhone with end-to-end encryption. Receive native iOS alerts for messages, emails, and app updates, with options to customize what gets synced and when. It ensures your notification content remains private during transit.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encrypted notification mirroring
  • Native iOS notification rendering
  • Synced dismissals across devices
  • Per-device and per-app controls
  • Private asset handling for attachments
  • QR code and pairing-link setup
Features
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NotiSync brings notifications from your other devices to your iPhone, while keeping notification content encrypted in transit. Pair your iPhone with NotiSync on your other devices, choose what should be mirrored, and receive native iOS alerts for messages, email, events, reminders, and app notifications. Mirrored notifications are decrypted on device and can include sender avatars, conversation-style messages, and attachments when the source device provides them. Features: - End-to-end encrypted notification mirroring across trusted devices - QR code and pairing-link setup with verified device identities - Safety numbers and key fingerprints for trust checks - Native iOS notification rendering through APNs, foreground delivery, relay fetch, and background refresh paths - Synced dismissals, so clearing a mirrored notification can clear it across your trusted devices - Per-device, per-app, and notification channel controls to silence what you do not want on your iPhone - Inbox, trusted device list, activity log, delivery diagnostics, and route status - Private asset handling for icons, avatars, and attachments without exposing notification content to the relay - Signed trust updates and key rotation for long-running device meshes NotiSync is built for people who use more than one phone or device and want important alerts nearby without forwarding readable notification content through a server. The relay coordinates delivery, but it only handles encrypted envelopes and routing metadata. Requires NotiSync on at least one paired device and notification permission on this iPhone. Some features depend on the source platform, device permissions, relay availability, and OS support.

About

Naru

Features
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Receive your work phone's notifications here on your iPhone. Even with two phones, you usually carry one. So you keep wondering whether something came in on the other one. When the alerts arrive here, you can look first and then decide whether the work phone is worth going to get. ■ Before you start · You need both phones. This app is the receiving side (iPhone). · Install the companion Naru app on your work phone, and pair once by QR. · It's one-way. There is no way to send this iPhone's notifications back the other way — iOS has no API for reading another app's notifications at all. ■ How much you receive is decided on the sending side Don't send / App name only / Include sender / Include message. One of four levels, per app. That setting lives in the sending app. Whatever isn't selected never leaves the work phone in the first place. It isn't withheld from this iPhone — it never goes anywhere at all. ■ It arrives locked · The two phones exchange keys directly by QR. No server involved · Every notification uses a new key. Past notifications can't be reopened · The relay only carries the sealed parcel. It cannot open it · The keys stay on this iPhone and never leave, not even in a backup ■ No sign-up No email, no password, no phone number. There is no account, so nothing piles up in one. ■ Readable on the lock screen Notifications mostly arrive while the phone is locked, so they are opened and shown there. The one exception is right after a restart, before the first unlock — until then it shows "Can't open this yet". One unlock fixes it. ■ This app is free

Screenshots

NotiSync4 screens
Naru4 screens

Verdict

The call

NotiSync and Naru are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NotiSync ships an update fortnightly, Naru every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NotiSync versus Naru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotiSyncNaru
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDingwen WangDESAIL

In-app purchases

None

NotiSync

No in-app purchases

None

Naru

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NotiSync free?
NotiSync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Naru free?
Naru is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NotiSync or Naru have ads?
Neither NotiSync nor Naru shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NotiSync or Naru?
NotiSync ships an update fortnightly, and Naru every 3 weeks. Most recently, NotiSync was updated on November 5, 2026 and Naru on October 31, 2026.

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