# Sticky Notes Widget+ — user reviews > 25 indexed App Store user reviews of Sticky Notes Widget+ by SMART WIDGET LABS COMPANY LIMITED, rated 4.10/5 from 259 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sticky-notes-widget-plus/id1533370924/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sticky-notes-widget-plus/id1533370924.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 176 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 41 ## What do users think of Sticky Notes Widget+? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Great idea for a tool - 👍 Versatile for various uses - 👍 Good tutorials available - 👍 Offers text formatting options **Cons** - 🐛 Notes randomly delete - 🐛 Notes disappear when editing - 🐛 Widget display issues - 🐛 Lifetime purchase re-prompted - 🐛 Intrusive and frequent ads - 🐛 Poor widget aesthetics - 🐛 Unreliable data saving - 🐛 App is a scam - 🐛 Overpriced for features - 🐛 Formatting issues in widget - 🐛 Free version limitations **Commonly reported bugs** - Notes delete when opened for edit - All notes randomly deleted - List not displaying in widget view - Notes disappear while working on them - Oldest note deleted when creating new one (free version) - App randomly goes blank - To-do list erased - No option to add widget after ads - Fonts change in widget - App asks to pay again after lifetime purchase - Widget border color issue - Notes turn into serif font on widget - Changes to notes don't show in widget - Sticky notes not showing under installable widgets **Most requested features** - Improve widget appearance - Fix font and color issues in widget - Ensure notes are recoverable - Restore lifetime purchase functionality - Reduce ad frequency - Offer more background color options - Clarify premium features - Improve app site design ## Newest reviews (9 of 25) ### 1/5 — App was ok, but it’s a scam. *2022-04-26* I actually thought the app was useful. The fonts would change when you use the widget, but I just dealt with it and didn’t pay much mine to it. The problem actually is the purchase of the life time deal. So I bought it like 10 months ago and had no issues with ads or anything. Suddenly, it asked me to buy the app again and the ads started popping up again. Needless to say, I emailed the developers asking them to restore my purchase and access with no ads. No answer. I looked at some of the reviews and apparently others have experienced the same problem. DO NOT BUY OR USE THIS APP. I already deleted it and said screw it. ### 1/5 — You overpriced. *2021-08-17* 10$ monthly for a sticky note app. What a joke. No, the fact there’s a 20$ one time purchase doesn’t justify it. ### 1/5 — The App lost all my notes *2021-05-30* Enough said. Don’t buy it. ### 1/5 — Was good until incident *2021-05-20, version 1.5* Had the widget on my home screen that kept all my quick notes Id make of things to do. Randomly one day it was all erased! With no way to restore it! Please do better so this is avoided and to be able to restore the notes!! ### 1/5 — It’s a scam *2021-04-16* I’ve paid for the app several times (and the $ came out of my account) but I have not been able to use the full functionality AND it keep prompting me to pay. I’ve tried several times to email the app developers but the email bounces back saying the email is not valid. DO NOT GET THIS APP! ### 1/5 — Bottom Line: Not Worth It *2020-12-30* Buckle in kiddos, it’s story time. I’ve been looking for a sticky note / note taking app that supports widget functionality for my phone for a while. I’ve found quite a few I find aesthetically pleasing, but none that offered me a variation of text formats and colors. With the way I use notes, these variations are incredibly important to me. So important, in fact, that when I read this app offers “multiple note themes” as well as variations for text format, I spent $20 for the premium version for a lifetime. I don’t usually commit that readily to something if I don’t feel like it’s on the right track. Don’t get me wrong, this app’s a great idea and it’s well on its way to being an amazing tool for everyone out there, like me, who wants a little more organization in their personal device. If you’re looking for functionality over aesthetic, this may just be the perfect app for you. I really do appreciate the different headings available, the bulleted lists, and the RGB text color options. But this app is ugly as a widget, hands down. I had no idea when I downloaded, and paid $20, for it that it’d look so awful on my home screen. The widget has a thick border that pulls its color from your phone’s mode — light or dark. It took me a while to figure that out, because it wasn’t listed anywhere in the settings of the app or the FAQ on the site. The notes themselves only have 4 options for background colors and they’re all pretty garish. They may look relatively pleasant when in the editor, but as soon as you’re on your home screen, it’s like a completely different hue. “Themes” would suggest multiple different styles of backgrounds and borders, would it not? Maybe that’s just me. I’m highly disappointed in this app. I also seriously regret spending $20 on it. Granted, that’s a steep price for any app that’s not a 5-star rated functional tool, but I guess I had hope it would be worth it in the end. Unless these “premium features” described in the popup window when you first open the app are actually created and available to premium members / app owners like myself, it’s not worth it. It’s definitely not worth $20. $3, maybe. I can’t begin to imagine what this app would function like in ‘free’ mode. I have no idea what the premium features are in this app. The ones that were listed as the selling point for the subscriptions aren’t there at all. Too bad. I was really excited to finally have an app that’d work the way I needed it to. This isn’t it. If you’re getting this app, think carefully over what you want it for. If, after all this, it still sounds like a winner to you, go for it! But I would advise against spending anything more than $2 on it. If after this review you’ve decided against it, good job. You did what I wish I could: You got out before it was too late. Fix this, developers. Fix your app, which is a sham and will live covered in dust on my phone until it’s no longer an eyesore. Fix your site, which is poorly designed (and frankly I believe not meant for user interface). If need be, find a new team of UX UI developers. Do something. Otherwise, this is the rip off of the century. Have a nice day. ### 1/5 — Not free *2020-11-22* False advertising, it’s not free ### 1/5 — Buggy *2020-11-05* Difficult to use, formatting is all over the place, and half the time changes to notes don’t show in the widget. Very confusing app. ### 1/5 — Sticky notes doesn’t show up under widgets able to be installed *2020-10-10* St ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Would be a useful widget if the notes didn’t delete every time you opened it! *2025-09-05* Widget is buggy and whenever i open a sticky note to edit it, it deletes the entire note and o’s not recoverable. Seems to have been an issue for years seeing other reviews. ### 1/5 — All my notes were randomly deleted *2024-07-06* Garbage app randomly deleted everything I wrote down ### 1/5 — Randomly erases everything. Otherwise great *2024-05-26* As mentioned by others ### 1/5 — Won’t display list in widget view *2023-12-02* Can’t get the list to display on the widget so it’s useless. ### 1/5 — Notes Disappear *2023-10-25, version 1.5* Randomly notes disappear that you are working on or have entered before marking the app unreliable and thereby useless. Ads are also a fairly intrusive. ### 1/5 — Безвозвратно удалилась заметка *2023-05-22* Поскольку в бесплатной версии возможно использовать только 3 активных заметки, то при нажатии на создание новой - старая наиболее ранняя заметка просто удаляется :) Потерял очень много важной информации. Если бы можно было поставить -5 - поставит бы Отвратительно приложение - никому не рекомендую ### 1/5 — Randomly goes blank *2023-02-26* Time and time again I will rely on the notes I have on my sticky not and there is a bug that will delete the main note. I’ve emailed just to be told how to get a refund. Disappointed!!! ### 1/5 — Why you do not get this app *2022-11-20, version 1.5* IT IS SO BAD😡 ### 1/5 — My to do list erased *2022-09-26* I had a to do list of items and it all went blank and I can’t get it back. So frustrated. iPhone. Used the app as a widget. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2022-09-06* I get it, they need to make money, but at least 5 ads have popped up before I've even created a single widget. Edited to add... After a few more ads, there was no option to add a widget for the sticky note I created. This app did not work ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Paid for LifeTime, asking me to pay again *2025-06-05* I paid $19.99 for the lifetime subscription. Now the app is asking me to pay again. Very long ads for games every time I click on the post it note. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2022-06-30* Great app for all kinds of uses. I use it everyday for my job as a service manager. Taking pictures, sharing notes makes this app super versatile. The tutorials are great as well. Highly recommended ### 3/5 — Kind of unreliable *2022-02-11, version 1.5* When I tap the home screen widget because I want to edit the sticky note, it's a gamble whether it lets me do what I want to do, or just erases the contents of the note! So that's less than ideal. Not sure why this is happening but it makes it difficult to rely on the app. ### 3/5 — It is Simple *2020-10-27* It’s not too confusing to and it’s pretty easy to use so I guess it’s all right ### 2/5 — Great in theory; Unreliable *2022-06-16* I really enjoy this app for the most part, but on several occasions when I leave the app open and then navigate away from it and come back later it erases everything on whatever sticky note I was editing. There is no way to recover the data lost and it’s VERY frustrating. ### 2/5 — It works but looks bad on the widget *2020-12-31* It works - you can use it to put a note on your screen - but for some reason when it transfers from the “you creating the note” portion to it showing up on your screen in widget form it turns into a serif font and the color changes hue and saturation. I don’t know why and it looks bad. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*