Compared to pushover, Notify17 is conceptually easier to set up and first-use (meaning, you create an account and you can already test notifications). I didn't like the not-so-immediate concept of pushover.

I belive Notify17's UI is friendlier for users, less cluttered. Clearly Notify17 has less features overall (for the moment), because it focuses on few core concepts, which are simple notifications ( https://notify17.net/docs/api-endpoints/#raw-notifications ) and notification templates ( https://notify17.net/docs/templates/ ).

The two products have two distinct philosophies. At the time I evaluated pushover, I thought it was too enterprisey, not suitable for simple daily usage. Therefore, I tried to create a friendlier service :)

The tradeoff, for the moment, is probably less features overall (you can see a list of features here: https://notify17.net/docs/features/ ). The benefit is that you have a UI that lets you manage your content (in my opinion clearly) way far more easily than with pushover.