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Pusher Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10
Score
9 out of 10

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Pros

Straightforward to use: Several users have found Pusher to be straightforward and easy to use. They appreciate its intuitive user interface, which builds channels for them and provides API keys and secrets, making implementation in their app quick and efficient.

Real-time notifications: Many users liked the real-time notifications provided by Pusher. They found them easy to integrate and customize, enhancing the UI/UX of their apps.

Excellent APIs: Users have praised Pusher for its excellent APIs that are easy to integrate into their code. The documentation provided by Pusher is also highly regarded, as it is easy to understand with good examples of how to implement the APIs effectively.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Lets make the app more interactive using Pusher

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher, by name, seems just like a normal push notification service provider, but it is a way ahead of that. Although we can use it to send Real-time notifications to app users, it can also be used to make live changes in the app's interface using just a few commands via the server.

Pros

  • It can make the app more interactive using live changes in the app.
  • We can send real-time notifications using Pusher.
  • It helps a lot in making the UI/UX better than before.

Cons

  • Implementation is quite tricky. A lot of terms to remember from the documentation.
  • Not a large community.
  • They could restructure the pricing to make it more suitable for low-budget startups.

Likelihood to Recommend

As I told you earlier, if you just want to send regular push notifications to the app users, then Pusher shall not be your first choice. However, if you wish to make the app a little more interactive by making live changes in the app using Pusher and sending your user's real-time notifications, then you should definitely try it.

AS
Ashok Saini
Software Engineer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa.com (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Pusher
1 year of experience

Lets push the real time notifications with Pusher

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher is known for its efficient push notification service. We were developing our apps using Flutter and as Flutter allows using Pusher as a Widget, we chose it as the best option for push notification service. It has a similar user interface so integration with Flutter apps is an easy and flawless process.

Pros

  • Pusher allows live changes in the UI using push requests. We can also integrate it with the PHP source code.
  • They offer 99.99% uptime, so we can trust on their services.
  • Pusher works well along with the Flutter codebase, so we do not have to modify it much to work on cross-platforms.

Cons

  • Setting up it in the beginning was a little complex.
  • Not enough tutorials or good user communities out there to implement it quickly.
  • Pricing might not be suitable for all.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you do not want to use all of its features, then you should consider some cheaper option instead of Pusher. If you want to send Real-Time notifications or want to make real-time changes in the app (like whenever a user type sometimes, some change happens instantly), then you can give it a try.

LN
Lav Nandan
Software Engineer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Pusher
1 year of experience

I make Real time push notifications easy - Pusher

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher came as a solution front us when we were looking for some solution to resolve bi-directional communication issues in our app. It allows pushing notifications or UI elements live directly from the server to the app. This type of live transition provides the best user experience to the end-users.

Pros

  • Nearly zero downtime, it works reliably 24x7.
  • There pricing is also competitive, as of now.
  • It is straightforward to use Pusher in various use cases.

Cons

  • Not a good support system.
  • Poor documentation.
  • Date transmission encryption issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to make live changes in your app's UI while the user is using it, then Pusher might play a crucial role. For example, by changing the theme or color set by users' input, this task or similar tasks can be easily accomplished by using Pusher. This might not suitable for you if you are having a low budget and low experience.

DS
Dharmi Singh
Jr. App Developer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Pusher
1 year of experience

Pusher - an easy integration API for real-time notifications

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company had the need to implement real-time updates in our web UI and mobile app. Pusher allowed us to have a platform that performed that. Users would submit information from the UI to the backend, then the backend code (PHP in our case) would push a notification to the UI for other users to get information to display in real-time.

Pros

  • Real-time UI notifications
  • Excellent API's to integrate into your code easily
  • Documentation that is easy to understand and has good examples of how to implement the APIs

Likelihood to Recommend

Our online ordering platform needed a way to notify restaurants, delivery drivers, and other administrators when an order was submitted by the customer. Pusher allowed that to happen and the time from submission to notifications was sub-second. The API performed excellently even during times of peak performance.

VU
Verified User
Professional in Engineering (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pusher
5 years of experience