Airship or Sendora — pick the trade-off, not the marketing.
Airship is the enterprise mobile-engagement OG. Strong on APNs/FCM depth, Live Activities, geofence triggers, journey orchestration. Sendora ships the same mobile-push depth + bundles auth + audiences + analytics + support — all reading one event stream. For mobile-first companies switching, the consolidation is the lever.
Enterprise mobile push + lifecycle. Strong APNs/FCM depth. Standalone — CDP and analytics separate.
Same APNs + FCM + Live Activities depth where audiences + auth + journey orchestration live in one tenant.
Side-by-side
| Capability | Airship | Sendora |
|---|---|---|
| APNs + FCM (cert + token) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Live Activities + Live Updates | ✅ | ✅ |
| Geofence triggers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Cross-channel (Email + SMS + In-App) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Journey orchestration | ✅ | ✅ Automation |
| Identity + Auth in same tenant | ❌ | ✅ |
| Analytics + audience-build | Limited | ✅ |
| Device-takeover on signin | ❌ (DIY) | ✅ built-in |
| Pricing model | Enterprise quoted | Bundle |
Why teams switch to Sendora
- Replace Airship + Mixpanel + Auth0 + Intercom with one tenant.
- Device-takeover ends the duplicate-push class architecturally — Airship customers chase this for months.
- 5 typed SDKs (Web / SSR / RN / iOS / Android) with consistent contracts.
When Airship is the right call
- You're a mobile-only shop with deep Airship journey orchestration + procurement-locked enterprise terms.
- Specific Airship features (Surveys + Predictive AI) integrated tightly with your existing tooling.
Push
APNs + FCM + Web Push + Live Activities + Geofences + Critical Alerts + per-org frequency caps + quiet hours + sticky-by-user A/B — one SDK, three transports.
OneSignal and Braze send pushes. Sendora's Push module ships the same transport surface (APNs cert + token, FCM, Web Push VAPID), plus Live Activities (iOS ActivityKit + Android ongoing notifications) + Geofences + Critical Alerts + per-org frequency caps + TZ-aware quiet hours + sticky A/B variant assignment + automatic invalid-token pruning. Device-takeover on signin retires the anon `user_id` so a single device doesn't get duplicate pushes. Honest about scope: audience fan-out is via Automation workflows (not a single-call `sendToAudience()` API), and the A/B test ships variant assignment + manual winner declaration — not automatic statistical readout or auto-promote.
Switch from Airship. Keep your weekend.
Free plan covers real product use, no credit card. Bulk hash import for auth, CSV import for profiles, schema-validated event import for analytics — Data Sync module handles the migration in a day.