BarMaker vs Notify Alarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BarMaker
Easily create and scan QR codes and barcodes. Share scanned results to your Mac or PC browser, or transfer data like contacts and clipboard content. Customize your codes with colors, embedded images, and text.
- Create QR codes and barcodes
- Scan QR codes and barcodes
- Transfer contacts, location, clipboard
- Push scan results to Mac/PC browser
- Customize code color and embed images
- Drag and drop support on iPad
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BarMaker can help you to create/scan QR Code or Barcode images or transfer contacts, location, clipboard and so on. You can use it to create/scan QR Code or Barcode. You can also push the result into Mac/PC browser after scanning and visit the Scanning Result from PC/Mac's browser. You can custom your QR Code or Barcode (like change color or embed an image on QR Code or add your custom text). Also you can create qr code from Safari by pressing share button to share url. It also supports scanning for white barcodes on black background. It supports Drag&Drop on iPad. You can drag barcode image from the app to another app or drag a item from Favorites/History list to another app and it will auto make it to barcode image and insert to target App. You can also drop a barcode image to main UI to decode. BarMaker supports following formats: QR Code Code-39 Code-128 EAN-8 EAN-13 ITF UPC-A Codabar PDF 417 Aztec DataMatrix
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.
- Custom notification rules
- Keyword and content matching
- App-based notification filtering
- Alarm-style reminders
- Prioritize important alerts
- Simple and focused configuration
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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.
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Verdict
BarMaker and Notify Alarm both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Notify Alarm's written reviews are positive against 14% of BarMaker's. Notify Alarm also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). BarMaker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On 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
Notify Alarm is free to download; BarMaker costs $0.99 up front. Notify Alarm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BarMaker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BarMaker against 5.0 for Notify Alarm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of BarMaker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Notify Alarm's.
BarMaker ships an update every 6 days, Notify Alarm every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarMaker | Notify Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 垚 沈 | 龙林 武 |
Customer experience
BarMaker
Notify Alarm
In-app purchases
BarMaker
No in-app purchases
Notify Alarm
- Lifetime Unlock$4.99









