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OneSignal vs Urban Airship: What are the differences?

What is OneSignal? Free Mobile and Web Push Notifications. Free mobile and web push notification service.

What is Urban Airship? Improve customer engagement with push notifications, location-based marketing and analytics. We’ve built the smartest, most aware, precise, easy-to-use, scalable, secure and powerful push messaging platform on the planet. Our Push messaging platform leverages all that is unique about mobile as a channel, and that lights the spark to create meaningful and valuable mobile experiences. We help put your app in front of your users at the right time, and in the right place to drive usage and brand engagement.

OneSignal and Urban Airship can be categorized as "Mobile Push Messaging" tools.

Some of the features offered by OneSignal are:

  • Multiplatform notifications
  • Web Push Support
  • Safari Push Notifications

On the other hand, Urban Airship provides the following key features:

  • Industry’s best Push Messaging (with up to 1M messages per month, free).
  • Ready to go, proven and can be working in your app within hours.
  • Flexible APIs to drop in as-is or to completely customize.

"More parametrable" is the top reason why over 18 developers like OneSignal, while over 9 developers mention "Ios integration" as the leading cause for choosing Urban Airship.

OneSignal, Edufii, and Washos, Inc. are some of the popular companies that use OneSignal, whereas Urban Airship is used by Airbnb, Netflix, and Coderus. OneSignal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 55 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Urban Airship, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of OneSignal
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    Free of cost
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    More parametrable
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    Simple and Easy To Use. Well Documented :)
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    Device to device
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    Simple
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    Many Platforms
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    Great support
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    Free
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    Flexibility in working with web, android and iOS
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    Phonegap / Cordova / Ionic starters
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    Ios integration
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    Easy to setup
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    Android integration
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    PhoneGap Plugin

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      Android Integration

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    What is OneSignal?

    OneSignal is a high volume push notification service for websites and mobile applications. OneSignal supports all major native and mobile platforms by providing dedicated SDKs for each platform, a RESTful server API, and a dashboard.

    What is Urban Airship?

    We’ve built the smartest, most aware, precise, easy-to-use, scalable, secure and powerful push messaging platform on the planet. Our Push messaging platform leverages all that is unique about mobile as a channel, and that lights the spark to create meaningful and valuable mobile experiences. We help put your app in front of your users at the right time, and in the right place to drive usage and brand engagement.

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