Comparison

stickieNotes vs OpenNotes

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

Head to head
About

stickieNotes

Enhance your iMessage conversations with a collection of over 100 useful and humorous digital stickers. Express yourself clearly and efficiently with pre-made messages for various situations.

Highlights
  • Over 100 useful stickers
  • Fun colors and themes
  • Humorous messages
  • Enhances iMessage conversations
  • Easy to use
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Bring one of the most useful and handy ways to communicate in real life to your iMessages with stickieNotes. Save time and get your message across clearly and often humorously with useful messages like “What Time?”, “Stop By My Office”, and “Hey Big Fella!”. • Includes over 100 useful stickieNotes • Fun colors, themes and messages • No trees were harmed in the creation of these stickieNotes • No advertisements • 100% earth friendly • Mom always said, be friendly

About

OpenNotes

Express your support for healthcare transparency with animated stickers. These graphics represent the movement encouraging doctors and patients to share visit notes, promoting better adherence to care plans and trust in healthcare.

Highlights
  • Animated stickers
  • Support for healthcare transparency
  • Promotes patient access to notes
  • Enhances trust in clinicians
  • 13 unique stickers
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Show your support and enthusiasm for OpenNotes and transparency in health care with these stickers! OpenNotes is an international movement that urges doctors, nurses, and others to share the notes they write about a visit with patients. We call these opennotes. By reading notes, people are more likely to take their medications, recall and follow care plans, detect medical errors in time to prevent serious consequences, and enhance trust and teamwork with clinicians. To learn more about OpenNotes visit their website at www.opennotes.org. Includes 13 animated stickers.

Screenshots

stickieNotes4 screens
OpenNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: OpenNotes at Free against stickieNotes's $0.99. OpenNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). stickieNotes's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

OpenNotes is free to download; stickieNotes costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OpenNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: stickieNotes has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

stickieNotes ships an update every 4 months, OpenNotes every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
stickieNotes versus OpenNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterstickieNotesOpenNotes
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DevelopermBig LLCBare Tree Media Inc

Customer experience

stickieNotes

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

OpenNotes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

stickieNotes

No in-app purchases

None

OpenNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is stickieNotes free?
stickieNotes costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenNotes free?
OpenNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, stickieNotes or OpenNotes?
OpenNotes is rated higher. stickieNotes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while OpenNotes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do stickieNotes or OpenNotes have ads?
Neither stickieNotes nor OpenNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, stickieNotes or OpenNotes?
stickieNotes ships an update every 4 months, and OpenNotes every 4 weeks. Most recently, stickieNotes was updated on November 2, 2026 and OpenNotes on November 2, 2026.

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