For mobile users, app notifications enhance the overall mobile experience and provide an easy way for users to get updates from the various apps they own and networks they are on.
Although Android’s notification system has undergone constant improvements, it lacks in various aspects for example it still lacks the ability to have its notifications organized under categories like communication, social, etc.
In this post, we’re going to showcase some smart Android apps that help you manage app notifications more efficiently than the stock notification you are on now.
Snowball
Snowball is a smooth and intelligent notification app, which can organize important notifications, like from your email, calendar, notes, and more, all in one place. You can also check and reply all your notifications from Facebook, WhatsApp, Line, Telegram and even SMS, right from the notification panel. Who has time to run an app just to clear something up?
With Snowball, you can select specific sounds for notifications or choose to hide annoying notifications with a single swipe. With Snowball at work on your Android, you can focus only on updates and notifications that really matters.
APUS Message Center
Already installed in over 28 million devices in the world, the APUS Message Centre offers an easy-to-use interface for you to check all your notifications in one go. The app groups your WhatsApp messages, emails, SMS, missed calls, and various social apps on the same panel. APUS Message Center can also show the number of unread messages over the app icons and folders if you use the APUS Launcher.
You can instantly reply from the panelwithout visiting every application, like what Snowball offers. The other good thing about this app is its is APUS Message Center’s superb compatibility with most Android versions and devices.
Desktop Notifications
Desktop Notifications app allows you to check notifications while you work on your computer. Instead of having to grab your phone whenever a new notification comes,read them directly on your desktop, within a browser. All you need is the app on your mobile and the companion extension on your Chrome or Firefox browser.
Desktop Notifications comes with a simple interface that provides you numerous features to set notification access methods for individual apps. It is compatible with all popular apps including messengers like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Hangouts. Interesting bit: the app was built to facilitate a scientific research which you can read about here.
Floatify – Quick Replies
Floatify gives you mini heads-up notifications whenever you’re in full screen mode and can’t slide the notification panel to check new notifications. Its Direct Reply lets you pick predefined replies, which you can tap to send instantly. It also allows instant replies or marking them as ‘read’ from the notifications without having to open any of the apps. It works with major messenger apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, WeChat and more.
Floatify features Smart Wake notifications that turns on the phone’s display as soon as you pick up your phone. Smart Blacklistlets you auto-hide notifications while you browse the web, watch videos or play games.
Heads-up Notifications
Heads-up Notifications offers floating pop-up notifications. Whenever there is a new notification, the message pops up on your phone screen, allowing you to read the full text. Heads-up Notifications, unlike Lollipop’s popup notifications, works on Android versions down the line, from Android 3.1 onwards and even supports some smartwatches.
It also has a unique ‘pocket detection‘ feature: whenever you receive a notification and you take the device out of the pocket, this feature turns on the phone’s display automatically. After more than 900,000 downloads, the bad news is that the creator has moved on to other projects and will no longer provide support for the app.
Echo
Echo is a fast and good-looking lockscreen notification app that displays complete notifications rather than just titles on the lock screen. It also allows one to view andmanage the notifications directly from the lock screen.