Notify vs Deadline App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notify
Organize your thoughts and to-dos with a beautiful and simple note-taking app. Create custom folders, set reminders, and share your notes easily. Enjoy seamless iCloud sync and full data privacy.
- Organize notes with custom folders
- Quick note creation
- Set reminders for notes
- Share notes across devices and apps
- Export notes for backup
- iCloud synchronization
- Customizable themes
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Notify is the simplest, best and most beautiful way to manage your notes and tasks on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. "He listens well who takes notes." Dante Alighieri FOLDERS Create folders for your notes. This is the number one feature that will let you separate notes according to categories. For instance, all the notes about cooking in a dedicated folder, all the notes about travels in another, one for work, etc. QUICK NOTE With just one tap, you can start writing your note and saving it by pressing the return key. Add multiple quick notes in just a few seconds. REMINDERS You can set a reminder on any note. SIMPLICITY Elegant and simple way to edit notes. SHARE Share any note to WhatsApp, Twitter, Message, Mail, Add to Notes and more. Copy, Add To iCloud Drive. Share to your Mac or to any iOS device. EXPORT Ability to export all your notes to your email address. Because everyone needs a backup. ICLOUD SYNC Automatic iCloud synchronisation! Create a new note on your iPhone and it will magically appear automatically on your iPad and iPod touch as well. NO ACCOUNT No need to create any account. FULL DATA PRIVACY Notify does not store any of your data and cannot even access it. Your data stay in your private iCloud account. FAVORITES You can now mark some of your most used notes as favorites. Simply tap the star icon when in a note. Then, tap the star icon at the top of the main section to view all favorite notes. THEMES You can select some beautifully hand-crafted themes: Cerulean, Lime, Melancholy, Notify, Orchid, Princess, Scarlet, Sunrise and Sunset. PERSONALIZED THEME Not only that, but you still have the ability to select your Personal theme and personalize your colors on your own. Choose from up to 179 colors. Yes, black and white are also there. "I'm known for my handwritten notes." Pamela Anderson Download it right now and tell your friends, they will love Notify as much as you will. That's it, in case we don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
Deadline App
This app helps you visualize and track upcoming deadlines with progress bars. It offers interactive widgets, notifications, and multiple viewing modes to keep you organized. Syncs across Apple devices via iCloud.
- Progress bar visualization
- Interactive home and lock screen widgets
- Live Activities and Dynamic Island support
- Customizable categories and notes
- List and Columns viewing modes
- iCloud synchronization
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Deadline shows how much time is left before what matters: every deadline gets a progress bar that fills up day by day. Follow your deadlines in interactive widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, in Live Activities and Dynamic Island, and get notifications right on time. View deadlines in List or Columns mode, sort them into categories, pin the important ones and add notes. Deadline works on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch and syncs through iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Deadline App at Free against Notify's $1.99. Deadline App also leads on ratings volume (63 vs 1). Notify's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ads and device support 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
Deadline App is free to download; Notify costs $1.99 up front. Deadline App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Notify asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deadline App has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Notify's written reviews are positive against 62% of Deadline App's.
Notify ships an update every 6 days, Deadline App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notify | Deadline App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damien Gonella | Elena Maltceva |
Customer experience
Notify
Deadline App
Bugs and requests
Notify
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Deadline App
Reported bugs
14 issues- Widget not displaying deadlines on Mac
- App freezing when creating multiple tasks
- Synchronization failures between iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
- Purchase restoration not working on all devices
- Incorrect deadline display (showing wrong remaining time)
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- Live activities not updating progress bar over time
- Widget showing blank on Intel Mac
- Notifications triggering incorrectly (wrong timing)
- App crashes and data loss
- Calendar write access permission issues
- Widget not syncing with app data
- Lagging when scrolling through many deadlines
- Live activities disappearing randomly
- Completed deadlines auto-deleting after 30 days without user control
Requested features
20 requests- Display deadlines in days format instead of percentage
- 12-hour time format option
- Task categories/organization by type
- Recurring/repeating deadlines
- Progress bar fill visualization
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- Overdue task indicators
- Share and copy to clipboard functionality
- Countdown mode without completion requirement
- Multiple widget selection options
- Automatic calendar integration
- Line break support in notes/descriptions
- Image attachment capability
- Lifetime purchase option
- Working days calculation (excluding weekends)
- Task deletion functionality
- Bidirectional time counting
- Family/shared task support
- Today button for quick start date setting
- Notification customization and frequency control
- Light mode theme option
In-app purchases
Notify
No in-app purchases
Deadline App
- Deadline Pro$1.991 Month
- Deadline Pro$9.991 Year









