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Desktop Notifications vs Notifications+

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When comparing Desktop Notifications vs Notifications+, the Slant community recommends Notifications+ for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of getting Android notifications on your PC/Mac?” Notifications+ is ranked 4th while Desktop Notifications is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Notifications+ is:

Privacy/work mode can be set to automatically be enabled based on the current WiFi access point or if the device is using the mobile network (profiles). Privacy/work mode will neutralize the notification title and body to protect sensitive information. Profiles can also be set to not send notifications at all.

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What are the best ways of getting Android notifications on your PC/Mac?

Desktop Notifications

Notifications+

Pros

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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

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Runs with Chrome open by default

Pro
Profiles based on WiFi access points to maintain privacy (Pro only)

Pro
Almost no delay

Notifications+ pushes notifications almost instantly.

Pro
Uses a Chrome extension for PC/Mac

Notifications+ uses a Chrome extension to display notifications. This makes it easy to always have your Android notifications on any computer signed into Chrome.

Pro
Security

The developer states that "notifications are encrypted using AES256 with GCM authentication. The password you specify is not stored on any servers and are only saved locally on your Android devices and Google Chrome browser. A key is derived from your password using PBKDF2 key derivation."

Pro
Runs with Chrome open by default

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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.