Squiddle vs Skedgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Squiddle
This app allows you to quickly sketch ideas, notes, or reminders using your finger on your phone. You can then save these doodles, share them with others, or upload them to cloud storage. It's a fun and flexible way to capture thoughts on the go.
- Finger sketching and note-taking
- Save and share doodles
- Cloud storage integration
- Mark up photos and images
- Set doodle reminders
- Organize notes with tags
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Squiddle is the fun way to doodle and take notes on the go! Squiddle gives you the freedom to use your finger to sketch your thoughts right onto your phone at the exact moment they are on your mind. Then you can save them for later or share them with friends. Be silly, serious, or both: it’s up to you. Draw a mustache on your friend, sketch an expressive idea for your spouse or share a brainstorming byproduct with a coworker. Squiddle does the remembering so your mind can be free to think! Features include: - Quickly sketch an idea and share it with friends or upload it to your cloud storage (Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc - must have those apps installed) - Mark up a photo or image with important annotations or entertaining messages - Use a doodle to set a lively reminder for yourself - Organize notes into a series of tags
Skedgets
Create visual notes and sketches that can be displayed directly on your device's home screen. Customize your creations with various drawing tools and background options. Share your designs as images or display them in different widget sizes.
- Create visual notes and sketches
- Display on home screen widgets
- Multiple drawing tools
- Customizable background colors/images
- Preview widget sizes (small, medium, large)
- Share as images
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Create Skedgets to draw your ideas, notes and sketches and display them on your home screen. Use different drawing tools, select a background color or background image from your photo library. Preview how your Skedgets will look like in widgets of small, medium and large size. Share Skedgets as images (e.g. to add them to your photo library) and display Skedget names in widgets. Skedgets is free! No in-app purchases and free of ads!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Squiddle at every 2 months against Skedgets's every 6 months. Skedgets's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Squiddle against 5.0 for Skedgets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Squiddle ships an update every 2 months, Skedgets every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Squiddle | Skedgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Think Tank Productions | Thomas Göring |
Customer experience
Squiddle
Skedgets
In-app purchases
Squiddle
No in-app purchases
Skedgets
No in-app purchases
