Notes and Folders vs Home Screen Widget Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notes and Folders
Organize your thoughts and memories with this app. Create folders for notes, attach photos, and even keep a dated diary. Secure your entries with password protection and access them easily with widgets and search functionality.
- Organize notes with folders and subfolders
- Attach photos to notes
- Dated diary entries
- Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID, Face ID)
- Widgets for quick access
- Search notes
- Backup to Dropbox, PC, or Mac
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Over 240,000 downloads worldwide! Notes and Folders is a simple notepad that lets you organize notes and photos with folders. You can also lock your notes with a passcode. FOLDERS - Organize your notes with folders - Create folders inside folders NOTES - Attach multiple photos to a note - Character count - Auto-save while editing - Editing buttons: copy & paste, undo, select, and arrow keys - Built-in web browser to add text and screenshots of web pages to your notes DIARY - Write a diary entry for any date - Read a whole month of entries at once OTHERS - Widget - Passcode lock (Face ID and Touch ID supported) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Save text and images from other apps (Share Extension) - Theme colors - Adjustable text size - iPad support - Backup with Dropbox - Backup with a computer URL SCHEME notesandfolders:// BACKUP You can back up your notes with Dropbox, or with a computer (Finder on Mac, or the Apple Devices app or iTunes on Windows). For details, see FAQ > "About Backup" in the app's settings. ADS This app shows banner ads, and a full-screen ad only once a day (every 24 hours). Ads are not shown after purchasing ad removal.
Home Screen Widget Notes
Organize your thoughts and ideas into customizable tabs for easy management. Add images, count characters, and secure your notes with a password lock. Export your data as a text file.
- Home screen widget
- Unlimited tabs and memos
- Character count
- Attach up to four images per note
- Change background color
- Password lock
- Export note data as text file
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It's a tab notes app! you can swipe to switch tabs! You can manage your notes in your favorite categories: diary, work, wants, class notes, hobbies, etc. - About Features Home screen widget. Create an unlimited number of tabs. Register an unlimited number of memos. Count character. Attach up to four images per note Change background color. Choose from 21 theme colors. export note data as text file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Home Screen Widget Notes at none against Notes and Folders's 1. Home Screen Widget Notes also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Notes and Folders's advantage is ratings volume (303 vs 22). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Notes and Folders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Home Screen Widget Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Home Screen Widget Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes and Folders has 303 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Notes and Folders's written reviews are positive against 78% of Home Screen Widget Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notes and Folders ships an update every 3 weeks, Home Screen Widget Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | Home Screen Widget Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (303 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 78.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 303 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | App Palette LLC |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
Home Screen Widget Notes
Bugs and requests
Notes and Folders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Home Screen Widget Notes
Reported bugs
11 issues- Typing lag after update
- Deleting one character deletes two
- Long notes only partially displayed
- Widget issues (not selectable, not displaying)
- Last line of some notes not displayed
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- White border on widget
- Cannot input '0' in password
- Cannot paste text from other apps
- Paste on URL requires a trick
- Home screen widget large size not reflecting
- Last line of some notes not displayed (editing makes it appear, but disappears when returning to list)
Requested features
30 requests- Bluetooth keyboard connection
- Hide note title
- Swipe to delete notes
- Backup function (paid is okay)
- Full note copy function
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- Title not counted in character count
- Option to turn off date display
- Reduce vertical space of notes
- Increase number of notes visible at once
- Change text color (selected parts)
- Change folder theme colors
- Insert videos/videos
- Full text copy function
- Title that doesn't count towards character count
- Remove borders
- Send notes to others
- Ad-free version (paid)
- Backup function (paid)
- Full text copy
- Move deleted notes to trash folder
- Unlimited display characters
- Table creation function
- Sync with Dropbox etc.
- Table insertion
- Fingerprint authentication
- App history list privacy (black screen)
- Change font size
- Add dusty pink theme color
- Highlight search results
- Up/down arrows for search navigation
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
Home Screen Widget Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Notes and Folders free?
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