Comparison

Notes vs WeeNote Notes and Widget

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Organize your thoughts with colorful, customizable sticky notes and widgets. Add notes, drawings, and reminders directly to your home screen. Sync across devices and protect your data with password protection.

Highlights
  • Customizable color sticky notes
  • Home screen widgets
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
  • Timed reminders and notifications
  • Password protection for notes
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Categorization with sub-folders
Features
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WeeNote is a color sticky notes memo app with a widget for the home screen that can sync with your other devices. With WeeNote you will be able to create color note stickies and reminders, add notes to your home screen, resize notes and customize them to your liking. You will also be able to take handwritten notes and drawings and place the stickies on your home screen. In addition to that, you can set notes transparency and rotation angle to achieve different looks, as well as set your own image as a note background, and use custom fonts for your text. WeeNote sticky notes organizer will let you categorize your notes and keep them in a convenient colored sub folders system. You can keep them in an order that is suitable for your workflow, sort by various criteria, or manually drag and drop. Notes can be trashed, moved between folders, looked by a search term, shared as text , drawing or a screenshot. Notes can also serve you as a timed reminders that you can schedule to appear as notifications right when you need them. Protect your notes and folders with a password to keep them private. Online backup and data synchronization feature is available for app subscribers. You will be able to sync notes across multiple devices, and restore your data in case needed. The notes can be shown in a layout setup that will allow you to scroll through your notes in different directions, and view sub folders contents simultaneously. This feature can be useful for storyboarding, visualizing, planning, outlining and so on. The app is available for a period of 7 days to try, after that it will be required to purchase your copy to continue using WeeNote. Hope you enjoy WeeNote as much as we enjoyed working on it, and feel welcome to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions, or need technical support. Here is how to put sticky notes on your home screen: Go to your home screen, tap and hold a free space, tap + button, select WeeNote, add the widget. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weenoteapp.blogspot.com/p/weenote-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Notes4 screens
WeeNote Notes and Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notes at 4.8 against WeeNote Notes and Widget's 3.6. Notes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (51% vs 20%). WeeNote Notes and Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WeeNote Notes and Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes has 641K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Notes's written reviews are positive against 20% of WeeNote Notes and Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes ships an update every 9 months, WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Notes versus WeeNote Notes and Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotesWeeNote Notes and Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (641K ratings) — better3.6 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings641K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppleAlina Vetrov

Customer experience

Notes

All ratings640,678 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews4,901 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral10.9%
Negative37.9%

WeeNote Notes and Widget

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

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

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Subscriptions1
  • WeeNote Pro Sync$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • WeeNote Basic$4.99

Questions

Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WeeNote Notes and Widget free?
WeeNote Notes and Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notes or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Notes is rated higher. Notes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 641K ratings, while WeeNote Notes and Widget averages 3.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Notes or WeeNote Notes and Widget have ads?
Neither Notes nor WeeNote Notes and Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Notes ships an update every 9 months, and WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. Most recently, Notes was updated on September 24, 2026 and WeeNote Notes and Widget on August 21, 2026.

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