LastWill vs Nowlark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
LastWill
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LastWill is an encrypted digital vault that keeps your messages, documents, and memories safe ā and automatically delivers them to the people you choose if you become unreachable for a period you define yourself. Terms of Use (EULA) / Conditions d'utilisation : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula HOW IT WORKS ⢠Write a text message or attach files (photos, documents, videos). ⢠Choose one or more beneficiaries who will receive the content. ⢠Set your presence timer: as long as you check in regularly, nothing is sent. ⢠If you don't check in before the deadline, LastWill automatically notifies your chosen beneficiaries. PRIVACY BY DESIGN ⢠End-to-end encryption: your messages are encrypted on your device before they're sent ā LastWill cannot technically read their content. ⢠Zero-knowledge authentication (SRP protocol): your password never leaves your device, even at login. ⢠Two-factor authentication (2FA / TOTP) available for extra account security. ⢠Export your personal data anytime (GDPR-compliant), delete your account directly in the app. FEATURES ⢠Configurable presence timer with reminders. ⢠Unlimited beneficiaries (Premium plan) and access revocation at any time. ⢠Encrypted attachments up to several hundred megabytes depending on your plan. ⢠Professional plan (PRO): role-based sub-accounts, webhook-based triggers, AI-assisted analysis to reduce false alarms, full audit log. LastWill is not a legally binding testamentary instrument and does not replace a will drafted with a legal professional. It is a secure messaging tool designed for peace of mind and digital continuity.
Nowlark
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Nowlark turns anything you run into a notification on your iPhone. One HTTP request. No account to create, no password, no sign-in. Open the app and it is already yours: Nowlark keys itself to your iCloud, so your other Apple devices find the same account without you typing anything. WHAT IT IS FOR A backup that finishes at 3am. A build that fails. A scraper that finally finds the thing it has been watching for. A server that is about to run out of disk. Anything that knows something you want to know, with no good way to tell you. curl https://nowlark.com/v1/notify \ -H "X-Nowlark-Key: nlk_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"source":"Backup","title":"Finished","priority":1}' That is the whole integration: bash, Python, cron, a webhook, anything that can make an HTTP request. FIVE LEVELS OF URGENT Not everything deserves the same interruption. A pruned snapshot can wait quietly in the list; a disk about to fill should break through a Focus. Nowlark has five priority levels and the top two arrive time-sensitive, which is what lets an alert through when your phone is set to leave you alone. And the top level keeps alerting, every few minutes, until you open it, so a server that goes down at 3am is not one buzz you sleep through. Time-sensitive is free. Charging for the alert you cannot afford to miss would be the wrong thing to sell. SOURCES, NOT A PILE Every sender names itself, and Nowlark keeps them apart. Give each one a colour so a busy feed is readable without reading it. Silence the chatty one so it still arrives and still shows a banner but never makes a sound. Mute one entirely and it is still recorded, so nothing is lost by quieting it. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU RUN Uptime Kuma, anything built on Apprise and many other self-hosted apps already have an ntfy option: set its server to Nowlark, paste a Nowlark key as the access token, and nothing else changes. Each app's topic becomes its own source. Scripts written for Prowl work too. Nowlark answers Prowl's API, so they only need the new address and a Nowlark key. Priority keeps Prowl's -2 to 2 scale, and now 1 and 2 break through a Focus, which Prowl never could. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Nowlark on Apple Watch gets its own notifications, so a watch with cellular hears about the server going down with your iPhone off. It joins your iPhone's account with nothing to type. It comes with the Upgrade Pass. LINKS THAT GO WHERE YOU WANT A notification can carry a link, and a web address written inside the message becomes tappable on its own, so a build log and the commit that broke it are both one tap away. Links open in the in-app browser or your own, whichever you choose, including the button on the notification itself. NO ACCOUNT, BY DESIGN There is nothing to sign into and nothing to leak. Your account key lives in your iCloud Keychain and your own private iCloud database. No email address is collected, no password exists, and there is no third-party login. Moving to a new iPhone on the same Apple Account needs no setup at all. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Colour, app icon, whether the icon carries an unread count, whether opening a notification marks it read. Text scales with Dynamic Type, up to the accessibility sizes. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT One device and one API key, free, with no advertising anywhere. The only limit on sending is 1,000 an hour per key, and that is there to stop a runaway script rather than to sell you anything. The Upgrade Pass adds Nowlark on every device you own, a key per script, up to a year of history, images and buttons on notifications, and your choice of tones. Take it yearly, and everything it unlocks stays yours even after it ends, or buy it once for life, including everything added later. Nowlark is made by one person. Nothing is done with your notifications except deliver them to you. Terms of Use: https://nowlark.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://nowlark.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LastWill at 16.4 against Nowlark's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. LastWill sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $45.00 per 6 months and Nowlark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | LastWill | Nowlark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Madibweb | Skail Consulting LLC |
In-app purchases
LastWill
- Premium Semester$45.006 Months
- Premium Yearly$75.001 Year
- Pro Semester$134.996 Months
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- Pro Yearly$224.991 Year
Nowlark
- Upgrade Pass$9.991 Year
- Upgrade Pass, Lifetime$24.99





