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Add to SafariWhen comparing Desktop Notifications vs Pushbullet, the Slant community recommends Pushbullet for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of getting Android notifications on your PC/Mac?” Pushbullet is ranked 1st while Desktop Notifications is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Pushbullet is:
Pushbullet also allows its users to push messages, links, files, locations, and more to any of their devices or to other Pushbullet users.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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
Pro Does a lot more than just notifications
Pushbullet also allows its users to push messages, links, files, locations, and more to any of their devices or to other Pushbullet users.
Pro Superbly easy to use
After installing the Pushbullet application the set up process is as easy as it gets. Pushbullet will first ask you to sign in to your Google account. Then all you have to do is enable notification access and install the Chrome extension.
Pro Almost no delay
Pushbullet is just as fast as its name suggests at mirroring notifications or pushing links or files.
Pro Uses a Chrome extension for PC/Mac or a Windows application
Pushbullet is designed to use its Chrome extension although a Windows application can be used as well. The Chrome extension provides the best experience because any computer with a signed in Chrome browser will provide your Android notifications.
Pro Runs without Chrome open
As long as you enable "Keep Pushbullet running after I close Chrome" in the Pushbullet extension options, Chrome does not need to be open to receive notifications.
Pro Free
Pushbullet is free with no advertisements.
Pro Chrome notifications act as a notification drawer
Pushbullet 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 Cross device notification mirroring
Pushbullet can even sync notifcations with other Android devices (beta). This helps prevent you from having to dismiss notifications more than once and allows you to always see your notifications no matter what device you're on.
Pro More information shown in the notification than other services
Pushbullet includes the sender's name, email address, unread count, subject, and a preview of the message all in the notification.
Pro Universal Copy/Paste
Copy text on PC,paste it on your Android device and vice versa. You need the windows app for this. iOS and OSX support coming soon.
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.
Con Mac users must use their browser
There is currently no desktop application for Mac users available. The Pushbullet website claims a native OSX client is "coming soon".
