As time goes by, we have more and more applications on our smartphone . Many of them may only be used occasionally, but they tend to attract our attention more than necessary by sending notifications.
If you notice that managing so many notifications from so many apps is getting out of hand, we are going to present you with some tools that filter, order or hide these notifications.
FilterBox: notification manager
Filterbox includes a series of tools to manage your notifications, with a range of possibilities that adapt to your needs. For example, it includes a timeline of notifications, in case you missed an important one and want to retrieve what it said. You can view, copy content and also restore the notifications you dismissed.
Of course, it also serves to apply filters if the number of applications you have is high and you want to prioritize some over others. You can choose what to do with each app: dismiss, mute, change the sound, hide sensitive content, etc.
It also integrates an analytics system with details and summaries of your notifications, daily views, etc. So that nobody touches your settings, you can add layers of blocking by facial recognition or fingerprint.
Nap: notification manager
Nap is an application that allows you to listen to applications when it interests you, such as after a nap (hence the name). It is specially designed to be able to give you a break and not pay attention to non-relevant notifications during the periods that you need in the day, such as during the hours of rest or work or study.
In these rest phases you will be able to automatically dismiss the notifications of the selected applications and at the end receive a summary with all of them at once. For each nap period you can manually configure which applications are important and allow their notifications to enter.
NCleaner – Notification blocker and cleaner
NCleaner blocks unwanted notifications using machine learning. As it learns about your preferences, it will keep the notification bar clean of those that are not to your liking.
Useless notifications will be smartly blocked and gathered in one place, so your phone’s notification bar will always be clean and tidy. The app prevents junk notifications from blocking and slowing down your phone, keeping it free from annoying or useless notifications.
NotifyBuddy
This is a curious application that, more than helping you filter or silence notification content, changes the format in which they are presented. What NotifyBuddy does is add colored LED notifications even if you don’t have this option at the hardware level.
The application simulates the appearance of an LED on the mobile’s black screens, allowing you to customize the point or icon that will appear, the color depending on the application, etc.
Alertify – Custom Notifications
Until now we have focused on tools that try to reduce the hassle of receiving notifications. However, Alertify specializes in the opposite side: when we want to give an extra priority to one over the others.
You can choose not only relevant apps, but keywords that they contain and this app, by matching both criteria, will cause an alert to sound when a notification from that app contains the chosen keyword. The alert stops after the notification is dismissed.
