When comparing Bridge - mirror notifications (notification sync) vs Desktop Notifications, the Slant community recommends Desktop Notifications for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of getting Android notifications on your PC/Mac?” Desktop Notifications is ranked 5th while Bridge - mirror notifications (notification sync) is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Desktop Notifications is:
Desktop Notifications uses a Chrome or Firefox extension to display notifications. This makes it easy to always have your Android notifications on any computer signed into Chrome.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Privacy control
Fine tune privacy by hiding the content of any app when mirrored to your other devices.
Pro Clipboard sharing
You're clipboard is shared between your devices
Pro Has fine grained control of which apps are allowed to mirror
Pro Much faster in mirroring between devices than competitors
Pro Battery charged notification
You can get notified on your other devices when a device reaches a certain battery charge or is fully charged.
Pro Uses a Chrome or Firefox extension for Mac/PC
Desktop Notifications uses a Chrome or Firefox extension to display notifications. This makes it easy to always have your Android notifications on any computer signed into Chrome.
Pro Chrome notifications act as a notification drawer
Desktop Notifications uses Chrome notifications to act as a running list of past notification that have not yet been dismissed. This is especially useful if you receive a lot of notifications or you are not at your computer when they are received.
Pro Free
Pro Runs with Chrome open by default
Cons
Con No ability to disable notification mirroring of an application from Chrome
From Chrome it is possible to exit out of a notification but there is no way to permanently dismiss an app from mirroring its notifications.
Con Slight delay
While other services like Pushbullet receive notifications almost immediately. There is a delay of a few seconds with Desktop Notifications. Although the developer is working on it. In response to a user review the developer stated "We had to introduce a delay to the notifications because of the overwhelming amount of users who started using our app recently. Otherwise our servers would melt. :) When you don't receive a notification for some time our app will check less frequently. We don't like this either and are working on it!"
Con Less information previewed in notifications than other services
Desktop Notifications does not preview the message or provide the email of the sender (only the name). Other services preview the email in the notification.