Comparison

Blipr Notifications vs SSHome

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

Head to head
About

Blipr Notifications

Features
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Blipr turns any topic into an instant push notification. Create a topic in the app and get alerted the moment a message is published to it - from your servers, scripts, CI, cron jobs, or a one-line curl. Priority 5 alerts are Time-Sensitive: they break through Focus and Do Not Disturb, so the one that matters always reaches you. - Instant delivery over a live connection - watch messages arrive in real time - One Feed for every topic - search, filter by topic, unread or priority, and reply from the list - Priority levels 1-5, with Time-Sensitive delivery at the top level - Publish from anywhere: curl -d "hello" https://blipr.dev/blip/your-topic - Reply from a notification - tap Yes/No or Acknowledge without opening the app - Self-hostable: use blipr.dev or point Blipr at your own server - Share a topic with a QR code or link - Sign in with Apple to create topics, and keep them in sync across your devices - Light & dark, Dynamic Type, built for iOS Blipr is a client for an ntfy-style notify service. Creating a topic takes a free account; publishing to one and subscribing to it do not. Topics are public by name - use a long, unguessable name for anything sensitive.

About

SSHome

Features
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SSHome is a modern SSH client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Connect to your servers, Raspberry Pi, or homelab and get a real terminal โ€” full-screen apps like vim and top, 256-color output, and snippet shortcuts included. Terminal - Full VT/ANSI terminal (SwiftTerm) with alt-screen, colors, live resize - Multi-session tabs โ€” switch between servers with one tap - Snippet bar injects your frequent commands in one tap Files (SFTP) - Browse, create, rename, and delete remote files and folders - Uploads/downloads with real progress and speed, pipelined in the background - Downloads appear right in the Files app Security - Passwords live in the system Keychain; private keys never leave your device - Ed25519 and ECDSA P-256/384/521 keys; import OpenSSH-format keys (including passphrase-protected) or generate new ones on device - Trust-on-first-use fingerprint confirmation; changed fingerprints are blocked cold to stop man-in-the-middle attacks And more - Local port forwarding: map remote databases or dashboards to a local port - English and Simplified Chinese UI; no account, no data collection

Screenshots

Blipr Notifications4 screens
SSHome4 screens

Verdict

The call

Blipr Notifications and SSHome are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Blipr Notifications versus SSHome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlipr NotificationsSSHome
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB12 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperApplogico LLCๆฉๅ“ฒ ๅ”

In-app purchases

None

Blipr Notifications

No in-app purchases

None

SSHome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blipr Notifications free?
Blipr Notifications is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SSHome free?
SSHome is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blipr Notifications or SSHome have ads?
Neither Blipr Notifications nor SSHome shows ads.

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