A new iPhone app has surfaced in the App Store that offers a fairly
unique feature: the ability to push notifications to your Mac. It’s
called
Notifyr, and it utilizes a companion OS X client and Bluetooth LE tech to automatically send your iOS notifications to your desktop.
The whole thing is fairly easy to set up. After you’ve downloaded
both the iOS app and the Mac client, you’ll follow the usual bluetooth
pairing procedure. And once that’s done, you should start seeing all of
your iOS notifications pop up in your Mac’s Notification Center…
Like the
folks over at 9to5Mac,
I’ve run multiple tests on the two apps this morning, and they appear
to work as advertised. Facebook messages, iMessages and even SMS
messages sent to my iPhone all showed up as banner alerts on my
MacBook—almost simultaneously.
You have to keep the app running on your iPhone at all times for it
to work, but it can be backgrounded, and the fact that it uses Low
Energy Bluetooth should mean you don’t have to worry about battery
drain. The Mac client installs as a toggle in your System Preferences.
Unfortunately, since the whole thing banks on Bluetooth LE, it
requires hardware that supports it. So you’ll need an iPhone 4s or
later, and a newer model Mac for it to work. You also have to wonder if
the apps fall within Apple’s guidelines, as again, this is relatively
new territory.
At any rate, if you’d like to check it out for yourself, you can find Notifyr for iOS
in the App Store for $3.99. And you can grab the free Mac client
here.
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