Sticky Notes + Widget Memo vs Jot Down
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Jot Down
Create visually appealing sticky notes and to-do lists with customizable colors and fonts. Sync your notes seamlessly across all Apple devices using iCloud. Organize tasks with checkpoint options directly from your home screen widgets.
- Customizable sticky notes
- To-do list functionality
- Homescreen widgets
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Variety of font styles
- Gradient color options
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Sticky notes that stay where you look. Jot Down is a focused text-note app for quick thoughts, reminders, and everyday writing. Pin notes to Home or Lock Screen widgets, style them your way, and keep them synced through your private iCloud. WHY JOT DOWN • See important notes without opening the app • Start a new note from Home or Lock Screen • Dictate text with on-device speech recognition • Add reminders to a note • Organize with folders, favorites, colors, fonts, and wallpapers • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • No subscription or in-app paywall HOW IT WORKS 1. Capture a thought 2. Style or organize it 3. Pin it to a widget when it needs to stay visible Jot Down creates text notes only. It does not include the task, audio, scanner, drawing, focus, or countdown editors from Mini Notes. Download Jot Down and keep the next idea in sight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Jot Down at 100% against Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's 48%. Jot Down also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and ratings volume (70 vs 5). On update cadence, ads 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
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo is free to download; Jot Down costs $1.99 up front. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jot Down asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jot Down holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes + Widget Memo has 70 ratings behind it against 5, 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 100% of Jot Down's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sticky Notes + Widget Memo | Jot Down |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 2.9 (70 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alina Vetrov | Mohini Sharma |
Customer experience
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo
Jot Down
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.)
Jot Down
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo
- Sticky Notes Pro$8.99
Jot Down
No in-app purchases
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