The invention discloses a notification message prompting method and a mobile terminal, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a notification message is received; an application program corresponding to the notification message is determined; the current state of the mobile terminal is determined, wherein the current state comprises at least a main application program which the mobile terminal is running at the foreground and scene information which the mobile terminal is currently in; if the application program corresponding to the notification message is determined to be allowed toprompt the notification message to the user in the current state, the notification message is prompted. In the invention, the notification message is only prompted when the notification message of the application program is determined to be allowed to be prompted according to the scene information and the main application program. Thus the pop-up of messages meets the requirements of the users.