Comparison

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo vs Notes Writer

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

Head to head
About

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

Organize your thoughts with customizable stickies and widgets. Create typed or handwritten notes, organize them with colored folders, and set reminders. Sync across devices and protect your data with password locks.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Colored folders and sub-folders
  • Handwritten and typed notes
  • Note sharing
  • Password protection
  • iCloud sync and backup
  • Customizable backgrounds and icons
Features
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Boost your productivity with these simple and fun colored notes reminders. Customize your home screen with colorful stickies and folders widgets. Take manual backups to keep your note safe just in case. Organize notes with colored folders and sub-folders to efficiently classify your information. Take hand written notes and doodle along with typed once. Share notes as text or a drawing to other supporting apps. Manage deleted items and restore notes you thought you will not need again. Protect and lock your notes and folders with a password. Search for notes and folders if they are out of your sight. Pop your notes with custom backgrounds, or mark the notes with an icon to specify an importance, to classify the information in it, or just for fun. Sort your notes and folders automatically by various criteria, or move them around manually. Type your notes with custom fonts. Schedule reminders notifications in your notes to be reminded of important events. Sync and backup your notes in your iCloud account, so you will be able to access your notes across your iCloud enabled devices. Enjoy the app with no ads and no subscriptions. Sticky Notes is available to you for free for a trial period of 7 days. Mac floating notes version of the app is sold separately.

About

Notes Writer

This app is a comprehensive note-taking and PDF editing solution for mobile devices. It allows users to write, format, and organize notes, annotate PDFs, fill forms, and scan documents. The app offers advanced editing tools, powerful search, and seamless sharing and export options.

Highlights
  • Write and format notes
  • Annotate PDFs and fill forms
  • Organize with unlimited notebooks
  • Powerful full-text search
  • Document scanning
  • Sync with cloud services
  • Export to multiple formats
Features
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Notes Writer brings handwriting, PDF annotation, rich text, Math Notebooks, voice recordings and AI writing tools into one workspace for iPad and iPhone. Capture a lecture, mark up a paper, plan a project or turn a rough draft into something ready to share. WRITE AND MAKE IT YOURS Create beautifully formatted notes with headings, lists, colors and highlights. Work with Word documents, RTF, Markdown and plain text. Open documents in tabs and move between your ideas and reference material without losing your place. WRITE ON PDFs WITH APPLE PENCIL Take handwritten notes, sketch in the margins and highlight what matters. Choose from pens, pencils, markers, fountain pens and watercolor tools. Use the eraser, lasso and ruler to refine your work. Add text, shapes, images, signatures and audio to PDF notes. Fill forms, organize pages and keep your reading and annotations together. Measure distances and areas on scaled drawings, and apply text redactions in supported PDFs. GIVE YOUR WRITING AN AI ASSIST Rewrite a passage, simplify difficult language, fix spelling and grammar, or adjust the tone. Summarize, translate and explore ideas with AI tools and chat. Keep control of what goes into your notes and documents. CAPTURE VOICE, FIND THE WORDS Record lectures, meetings and ideas while they are fresh. Play recordings back at your pace and generate transcripts to revisit the details. Add recordings to your PDF notes and whiteboards for more context. THINK BEYOND THE PAGE Build visual whiteboards with notes, images and recordings. Capture quick thoughts on sticky notes. Structure ideas in Outline Notes with nested branches, rich text and images. Collapse sections, rearrange your thinking, and import or export outlines in OPML format. WORK THROUGH THE NUMBERS Combine explanations and calculations in Math Notebooks. Explore formulas with the built-in calculation tools and run Python cells when you need more. Create charts, write LaTeX documents and preview the finished PDF alongside your source. ORGANIZE YOUR STUDY AND RESEARCH Bring your notes, readings and research together in Study Projects. Organize subjects, lectures and sources in the Binder, plan ideas on the Corkboard and keep reference material beside your notes. Study Projects give everything a place as your understanding grows. TAKE BIG WRITING PROJECTS FURTHER Organize writing projects into sections in the Binder, plan with a Corkboard and review your writing as a manuscript. Keep research beside your draft, save snapshots and compile your work into a finished document or ebook. ORGANIZE, SCAN AND SHARE Keep notes and documents in folders with recognizable covers. Scan paper documents, import files and find what you need with search. Export supported documents to formats including PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML and EPUB. Use the Files app and supported cloud locations to bring your work with you. LOOK AFTER YOUR WORK Autosave, document recovery and automatic backups help protect your progress. Use app and folder passcodes for an extra layer of privacy. Continue opening your existing Notes Writer PDF notes and outlines as you move to the new workspace. From your first handwritten idea to your final document, make room for the way you think. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo4 screens
Notes Writer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notes Writer at 4.5 against Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's 2.9. Notes Writer also leads on ratings volume (7.3K vs 70) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Notes Writer sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notes Writer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notes Writer has 7.3K ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's written reviews are positive against 45% of Notes Writer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, Notes Writer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo versus Notes Writer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky Notes + Widget MemoNotes Writer
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (70 ratings)4.5 (7.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews — better45.1% of reviews
Number of ratings707.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB658 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlina VetrovKairoos Solutions SL

Customer experience

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

All ratings69 ratings
Positive43.5%
Neutral10.1%
Negative46.4%
Written reviews411 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral16.5%
Negative35.5%

Notes Writer

All ratings7,329 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews956 reviews
Positive45.1%
Neutral15.2%
Negative39.7%

User reviews

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

From 70 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful for organization
  • 🚀 Convenient widget
  • 🚀 Variety of note styles
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues
  • 💰 Paid features required
  • 🐛 Handwriting recognition problems
  • 🐛 Notes disappearing
  • 🐛 Laggy performance

Notes Writer

From 7.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth writing experience
  • 💡 Versatile note-taking features
  • 🔒 Good privacy
  • 👍 Useful for various purposes (notes, PDF annotations, etc.)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🔒 Limiting free version with paywalls
  • 🐛 Bugs with erasing, page management, and file corruption
  • 🐛 Laggy performance and slow loading times

Bugs and requests

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Widgets not loading properly
  • Handwriting not registering correctly
  • Notes not saving or syncing
  • Overlapping text and drawings

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add reminders and calendar integration
  • Allow more customization of notes (fonts, colors, layouts)
  • Improve widget functionality and customization
  • Add ability to insert images and files
  • Implement better organization tools (folders, tags, etc.)

Notes Writer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes randomly disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Inability to recover deleted documents
  • Unexpected behavior when adding/deleting pages
  • Syncing issues and broken links between documents

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more brushes and pen customization options
  • Improve the clipping/selection tool
  • Implement OCR and handwriting search
  • Provide a Mac version

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

One-time7
  • School Theme Pack$0.99
  • Outdoors Theme Pack$0.99
  • Pen Tool Extension$0.99
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  • Fonts Pack$0.99
  • Creepy Theme Pack$0.99
  • iCloud Sync$2.99
  • Sticky Notes Pro$8.99
8 purchases

Notes Writer

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Notes Writer Unlock All and AI3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time5
  • Full Version Unlock Pro$3.99
  • Full Version Unlock Pro$4.99
  • Full Version Unlock Pro2 variants$5.99
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  • Full Version Unlock Pro$6.99
  • Lifetime Pro Full Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Sticky Notes + Widget Memo free?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notes Writer free?
Notes Writer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notes Writer?
Notes Writer is rated higher. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo averages 2.9 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Notes Writer averages 4.5 from 7.3K ratings.
Do Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notes Writer have ads?
Neither Sticky Notes + Widget Memo nor Notes Writer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notes Writer?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Notes Writer every 5 days. Most recently, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Notes Writer on October 25, 2026.

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