Comparison

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo vs WeNote

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

WeNote

This app helps you organize your life with color-coded notes, to-do lists, and a calendar. It offers features like reminders, voice recording, and secure note locking. Work offline without an internet connection and sync securely to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Create color notes and to-do lists
  • Organize with labels and colors
  • Attach photos and voice recordings
  • Secure note locking with PIN or fingerprint
  • Calendar with holiday support
  • Sync notes to iCloud
  • Export notes to PDF
Features
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# Simple notepad & memo. Take notes, shopping list, to-do list, calendar, reminder WeNote - Notes,To-do,Calendar is a simple and awesome note taking app. You can create color notes, to do lists, shopping lists, reminders, and calendars quickly. Users love WeNote® as their life organizer, work planner, or study note app. Note taking with WeNote® is easier than any other notepad, memo app. When you write down memos, emails, phone numbers, messages, cooking recipes, diary, journal, shopping lists, and to do list, you will realize this is a good notes taking app. WeNote® is a privacy-focused notepad. WeNote® can work offline perfectly, even without an Internet connection. No login is required. Lock notes and to do list via PIN, pattern, password, or fingerprint, to protect confidential information. # How to Take a Note? WeNote® can act as a simple word processing app. You can type unlimited characters. After saving the note, you can pin it to the top screen, check off, password lock, share or delete through the menu. # How to Make Todo List or Shopping List? In to-do list mode, you can add an unlimited checklist. Arrange their order with a simple tap and move. When finishing with an item, you can perform a simple tap to strikethrough it. # Features • Create color notes and todo list • Organize memo using label & color • Labels designed as tabs, to let you swipe between notes at blazing fast speed • Attach photos and images into notebook • Voice recording allows hands-free note taking. You can add unlimited voice recordings into notepad • Pin important notes to the top. You will not miss out on any important thing • Place a sticky note widget on your Home Screen. View and access your note directly from Home Screen • Secure lock notes and keep them private • The completed to-do list will move to the bottom of the checklist • Customize notes via various fonts, viewing modes, sorting modes • 13 different app color themes to make notebook looks great • Unlimited notes color choices • Reminders memo and calendar • Powerful notes reminder. Notepad able to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and highly customizable. Never miss anything from the notebook • Show holidays on the calendar notes, which supports up to 250 countries, 3,680 states & provinces • Secure sync to iCloud. Never lose any notes • Local backup and restore to keep notes safe • Share notes to email, SMS, social networking & messaging apps • Undo/ redo enables mistake correction during note typing • Convert URL and phone number to clickable links • Export notes to PDF • Search notes and todo list, instantly # Color Notes This notebook can categorize notes into different colors. Manage notes with 12 pre-defined beautiful colors. WeNote® also provides an unlimited favorite color. # Notes Category WeNote® allows you to categorize notes by creating labels. Labels can display as Tabs. # Calendar Memo This notepad has a calendar. You can write a memo and create a reminder in the calendar. Due to its remarkable easy-to-use built-in calendar, you can use WeNote® as agenda planner and family organizer. Either plan next trip itinerary or schedule business meetings. # Secure Lock to Keep Notebook Private This notepad can secure lock and keep notes private. Either lock a note or lock the entire app to keep the notebook safe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo4 screens
WeNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WeNote at 4.8 against Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's 2.9. WeNote also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 48%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 1 one-off in-app purchase and WeNote sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WeNote holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WeNote has 1K ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's written reviews are positive against 86% of WeNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, WeNote every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo versus WeNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky Notes + Widget MemoWeNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (70 ratings)4.8 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews86.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings701K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlina VetrovYan Cheng Cheok

Customer experience

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

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

WeNote

All ratings1,037 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews351 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative8.0%

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

WeNote

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ❤️ Loved the app
  • 👍 Easy to use and organize
  • 🎨 Customizable colors and layouts
  • 📆 Helpful calendar and reminders
  • 🔒 Ability to lock notes

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Paid features like dark mode and iCloud sync
  • ⚠️ Occasional sync issues between devices
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality

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.)

WeNote

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Repeated prompts for reviews
  • Checklist items not updating properly
  • Reminders not always triggering

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add undo/redo functionality
  • Improve calendar integration to show note details
  • Provide more font and formatting options
  • Allow sharing and collaboration on notes

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

One-time1
  • Sticky Notes Pro$8.99
10 purchases

WeNote

Subscriptions5
  • Ad-free$2.991 Month
  • WeNote Premium Monthly Deal$2.991 Month
  • WeNote Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • WeNote Premium Yearly Deal$24.991 Year
  • WeNote Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time5
  • Sticky note$7.99
  • Color$7.99
  • Label$7.99
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  • Cloud sync$14.99
  • Combo$34.99

Questions

Is Sticky Notes + Widget Memo free?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeNote free?
WeNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or WeNote?
WeNote is rated higher. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo averages 2.9 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while WeNote averages 4.8 from 1K ratings.
Do Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or WeNote have ads?
WeNote shows ads; Sticky Notes + Widget Memo does not.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or WeNote?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, and WeNote every 6 days. Most recently, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo was updated on November 2, 2026 and WeNote on November 3, 2026.

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