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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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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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More parametrable
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Free of cost
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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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Great support
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Ios integration
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Easy to setup
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Android integration
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Jobs that mention OneSignal and Urban Airship as a desired skillset

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What are some alternatives to OneSignal and Urban Airship?

Pushwoosh

Free unlimited cross platform push notifications! iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Phonegap, Unity, Marmalade, Adobe Air - we support them all! Easy integration, open-source SDK.

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Pusher

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

Firebase Cloud Messaging

It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.

Twilio

Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs.

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