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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180,000 downloads worldwide! Organize texts and photos with folders. FOLDERS - You can use folders to organize notes - Support subfolders NOTES - Attach photos to the note - Letter count - Auto save in editing - Internal browser that can easily link with notes DIARY - Diary that set date - Read monthly diaries at once OTHERS - Widget - Password lock (Passcode, Touch ID and Face ID) - Search notes - Share notes to other apps - Share texts and images from other apps - Theme color - Text size change - iPad support - Backup by Dropbox - Backup by PC or Mac URL Scheme notesandfolders:// About Backup by PC or Mac There is a backup support using PC or Mac. Please read FAQ "About backup" section in preferences screen. Full screen advertisement will come out only once a day (24 hours). (It will not come out if you charge for remove ad)
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 (300 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 300 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 September 26, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notes and Folders | Home Screen Widget Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (300 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 78.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 300 — 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 | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KinkumaDesign | App Palette LLC |
Customer experience
Notes and Folders
Home Screen Widget Notes
In-app purchases
Notes and Folders
- Remove Ads$3.99
Home Screen Widget Notes
No in-app purchases
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