Notes vs Sticky Notes widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notes
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and important information with a versatile note-taking app. Attach various file types, scan documents, create checklists, and even sketch directly within your notes. Organize with folders, tags, and smart searches, and collaborate with others on shared notes.
- Add attachments (PDFs, images, links)
- Scan paper documents
- Create checklists
- Sketch with finger or stylus
- Search text in notes and handwriting
- Collaborate on shared notes
- Quick Note feature
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Notes is the best place to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. And with iCloud, it's easy to keep all your devices in sync, so you’ll always have your notes with you. Features Powerful note-taking • Add attachments - PDFs, photos, maps, web links, and more. • Record and transcribe audio directly into a note. • Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner. • Secure sensitive or personal data in a locked note. • Create checklists. Make a grocery list, a wish list, or a to-do list, then tap to check off items as you go. • Apply different text styles, such as heading or body, bulleted lists, highlighting, and more. • Tap next to section headers to reveal a chevron to collapse text. • Add tables to quickly organize information. • Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to sketch right in your note or an inline PDF. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colors, and add lines and grids to a note for easier writing and drawing. • Take a Quick Note without opening the app - add Quick Note to your Control Center, swipe up from the bottom right corner with an Apple Pencil on iPad, or use Fn-Q on a keyboard. Organize and search • Search for text in notes, your handwriting, and even inside scanned documents and photos like receipts or bills. • Link from one note to another to connect ideas, content, or any information. Try typing >> for a shortcut to add links while writing in your note. • Keep your notes in folders and subfolders, or add tags to categorize them. Type or handwrite tags directly in your note - like #cooking or #expenses. • Automatically organize notes in a Smart Folder based on filters. Create rules to filter for Date Created, Checklists, Attachments, and more. Collaborate • Collaborate on entire shared folders or on specific shared notes. • Mention friends to notify them of important updates and link them directly to a shared note. • See what others added into a shared note while you were away with Activity view, a day-to-day list summary of activity from each collaborator. Notes for Apple Watch • View all of your iCloud notes right from your wrist; you can also pin notes, complete checklist items, or create new notes with dictation or Siri. Certain features are available only in select languages and regions.
Sticky Notes widget
Add interactive sticky notes to your iOS lock screen and home screen. These notes appear instantly when you pick up your phone, ensuring you never forget important information. Customize notes with text, checklists, or photos, and personalize their appearance with various fonts, colors, and backgrounds.
- Interactive lock screen widgets
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable notes (text, checklist, photo)
- Customizable widget appearance
- Watch app integration
- iCloud sync
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All new Widgets for iOS 26 interactive Lockscreen and Homescreen Widget. Now you can add unlimited no of sticky widgets in different size to your Home Screen. You will never forget again because these notes is very sticky! It's so convenience that your notes will appear the moment you pick up your phone. No action needed. You can edit the notes in this app and Customise Notes or widget. Features: • Standby Widget. • Interactive Widget. • LockScreen Widget & Transparent Widget. • Edit note and set it as widget. • Transparent Widget. • Big Text on Screen. • Use text, checklist or photo. • Watch app. • Custom font, color and style. • Beautiful color, gradient or pattern background. • Multiple App Icons. • Dark mode. • iCloud Support sync across all device. View your sticky notes from watch app also. Sticky Widget Note App offers two auto-renewing unlimited Access subscription options: $0.99/Week as Weekly Subscription. $6.99/Year as Annually Subscription. These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTune account, and your account will be charged within 24-hour to the end of the current period .Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your iTunes store after purchase.Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Download Now New Sticky Notes Widget and Enjoy!!! Terms of use: https://motivateapps.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motivateapps.com/privacyClean.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notes at none against Sticky Notes widget's 3. Notes also leads on ratings volume (641K vs 268) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Sticky Notes widget's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months) and review sentiment (76% vs 51%). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Sticky Notes widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes has 641K ratings behind it against 268, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Notes's written reviews are positive against 76% of Sticky Notes widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notes ships an update every 9 months, Sticky Notes widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes | Sticky Notes widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (641K ratings) — better | 4.6 (268 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | 76.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641K — better | 268 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | Amit Verma |
Customer experience
Notes
Sticky Notes widget
Bugs and requests
Notes
Reported bugs
5 issues- Notes randomly disappearing or not syncing
- Cursor jumping around when editing text
- Typing lag and performance issues
- Inconsistent behavior when adding images
- Formatting problems when pasting content
Requested features
6 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Improve table formatting and calculations
- Allow custom folder colors and icons
- Implement a page view for longer notes
- Integrate with Reminders app for to-do lists
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- Provide more drawing/annotation tools
Sticky Notes widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Notes
No in-app purchases
Sticky Notes widget
- Notes Pro.$2.997 Days
- Notes Pro.$19.991 Year
- Notes Pro.$29.99








