Comparison

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo vs Notebook

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

Notebook

Capture thoughts, create to-do lists, and organize tasks with colorful backgrounds and customizable features. Add photos, audio, and set reminders to never miss important items. Sync notes to the cloud for easy backup and sharing.

Highlights
  • Quick note-taking
  • Checklists and to-do lists
  • Colorful backgrounds
  • Add photos and audio
  • Set reminders
  • Folder organization
  • Cloud sync and backup
Features
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Easy Notes - Notepad, Free Notes App is an easy-to-use notepad free for note-taking app. With this easy notebook and notepad app, take quick notes with colorful backgrounds and checklists to organize notes and tasks easily. Use this note taker and aesthetic notes to add photos or audio to your notes. Easy Notes is a good notes taking app and notebook for keeping notes and organizing tasks. It will be a good note taking app and digital notebook free for you. Key features: * Add sticky note widget to your desktop, easy to open and edit your notes. * Can be organized in folders, easy to classified your notes; * Add Checklist for To do list & Shopping list * Five kinds of notes background color available to change, make your notes in personalized way. * Change the Font size; * Transform your note into a checklist view; * Set reminder to your notes, no longer missing you important things; * Auto-saved. You don’t have to do anything to save them. * Share your notes via e-mail, SMS, and etc.; * Backup/export to SD card * Import backup notes files. * Sync your notes to Google task, let you sync/backup online. Free Note Taking Apps Easy Notes - Notepad Free, Notebook, Free Notes App is a free note taking app for taking notes. Take notes, make a shopping list or build a checklist with this simple notepad free. Easy to Use Notepad Take notes, view notes, and check note status with this good notes app. Display notes in list or grid mode. Pin the key notes at the top is also available in this notes writer. Personalize Notes with Colors Easy Notes - Notepad Free, Writers Notebook, Free Notes App is a good note app that supports color notes. Write notes with different note colors or awesome notes backgrounds. Easy Notes writer customizes notebooks with different themes. Choose your favorite themes in this free note taking apps. Notes Category and Memo Make notes for school, work, or other usage scenarios. This easy notepad, note-taking free note book app helps you categorize notes into different tabs. Manage your n otes more efficiently and easily. Memo more notes tabs as needed. School Notes and Work Notes This notetaking app is easy to take school notes, book notes, text note, and stick notes. Hand-drawn to help you make school notes. Calendar Notes and Notepad Use this free note pad recorder to view your notes in calendar mode. Note taking apps help to write notes, record memos or organize notes in the form of a calendar. Backup and Restore with cloud This awesome notes writer sync note from the Google cloud. Never worry about losing note pad. Easy to share notes or import shared notes into the notebooks. Local backup is available. Reminder for Notebook Free The free notes app allows you to easily set reminders for simple notepad notes. Schedule your time and don't miss important notes. Well orginized with this notebook free. Keep Notes Safe Notepad Lock helps keep notes private with password locks. Note writer with locker protect one note pad or the entire notes category to keep the notbook safe. Others are not able to view the locked nots. Sticky Notes Widget The sticky notes widget and stickies help write quick notes. Easy to add note widget as a note widget with various color note widget themes. Access your sticky notes free on homescreen quickily. Customize the sticky notes widget and stickies to help you work better.

Screenshots

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo4 screens
Notebook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notebook at none against Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's 7. Notebook also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (69 vs 3). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Notebook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.9 for Sticky Notes + Widget Memo against 3.0 for Notebook. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes + Widget Memo has 69 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Sticky Notes + Widget Memo's written reviews are positive against 33% of Notebook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, Notebook every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo versus Notebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky Notes + Widget MemoNotebook
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (69 ratings)3.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings69 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlina VetrovShreyaskumar Patel

Customer experience

Sticky Notes + Widget Memo

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

Notebook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

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.)

Notebook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Notebook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sticky Notes + Widget Memo free?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notebook free?
Notebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notebook?
Notebook is rated higher. Sticky Notes + Widget Memo averages 2.9 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Notebook averages 3.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notebook have ads?
Neither Sticky Notes + Widget Memo nor Notebook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo or Notebook?
Sticky Notes + Widget Memo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Notebook every 11 months. Most recently, Sticky Notes + Widget Memo was updated on September 23, 2026 and Notebook on September 14, 2026.

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