What is it?
Notif Pro is an application by Eric Carboni that is used for creating notifications that can be used for Shopping Lists, mental notes, and picture/text reminders.
What does it do?
The main function of the application is to serve as a quick way to create persistent reminders (that sit in your notification pane) that can be swiped away or remain ongoing. You have the ability to choose particular icons for reminders, and create notifications that have text, pictures, or lists.
If you are anything like me, then you frequently ignore your to-do list, and only pay attention to the notifications sitting at the top of your screen. Maybe it is my annoyance with icons cluttering my notification bar, but I’ve found Notif to consistently work as a great immediate reminder. Also, if you’re on Jelly Bean, then you have the ability to quickly swipe down your notification bar and see the reminder without leaving your lock screen (I find this particularly handy).
With the Pro version of Notif, you also get the optional dark theme, picture notifications, and the ability to edit the current notifications.
The developer also calls out some of the specific Pro highlighted features as well via the Play store description
Notif Pro features:
– Notification editing
– All 200 custom icons!
– Create notifications from other apps through the share intent
– QuickNotif – create and clear notifications anywhere on your phone from your notification drawer
– Lots more to come
Design Highlights:
- Use of the Action bar that properly follows the Android Design Guidelines.
- Holo icons throughout the application, (the additional “Pro” notification icons are very well designed and very clean, while they all retain the “Holo” look)
- Holo Light theme
- Holo Dark theme
- Beautiful use of extended layout notfications (introduced in Jelly Bean)
Feature Requests:
- Ability to check items in a list so that they are cleared from the list (without having to manually delete)
Final Thoughts:
Notif is an app that is simple to use for the creation of beautiful, expandable, and customizable notifications. The best part of Notif, is that once you start using it for persistent reminders, you’ll wonder how you ever went without it.
The app features a beautiful look that follows the Android Design Guidelines, and is functionally straightforward to use. Notif has already become a part of my workflow at home and at the office and I highly recommend you check it out. The free version is fully functional, but the optional Pro features (noted above) are certainly worth a look.
| Design |
9
/10
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Function |
10
/10
|
Stability |
8
/10
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Tablet Support |
8
/10
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| Design |
9
/10
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| Function |
10
/10
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| Stability |
8
/10
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| Tablet Support |
8
/10
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Holo Score: 8.75/10 “Highly Recommended”
