Text Widget Noti vs Sticky Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Widget Noti
This app allows you to create and display sticky notes directly on your homescreen. Quickly jot down memos, snippets, or reminders and access them instantly without opening another application. Premium features include customizable text size and iCloud synchronization.
- Write, update, and delete short notes
- View notes in home screen widgets
- Customizable text size (Premium)
- iCloud Sync (Premium)
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An easy to view memo/sticky notes app. Need to keep a memo, note or snippet of text handy? Are you tired of having to open an app just to view your notes? There is a solution: Noti! Noti is a simple memopad app that also allows you to view your notes in a widget on your homescreen - or wherever you decide to put it. Features: - Quickly and easily write, update and delete short notes. - View them in widgets. - Change the text size of the text shown in the widget(Premium) - iCloud Sync(Premium) Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/noti-app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sticky Notes
Pin notes and to-do lists directly to your Home and Lock Screens for quick access. Organize tasks, customize backgrounds with colors or photos, and choose from various fonts. Ideal for reminders, class notes, and visualizing goals.
- Pin notes to Home and Lock Screens
- Organize tasks by category
- Customize backgrounds with photos
- Cute font options
- Character count display
- Undo/Redo functionality
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Sticky Notes is a notepad app you can use just like sticky notes. Pin your memos to the Home Screen so you can see them anytime and edit with a single tap. Now with checklists, bullet lists, numbered lists, and headings — organize shopping lists, to-do lists, tasks, and schedules all in one app. We hope you'll give it a try. ■ App highlights - Pin memos to your Home Screen or Lock Screen for instant access anytime - Show a note on the Lock Screen without placing a widget - Manage shopping and packing lists with checklists — tick items right from the widget - Sort memos by purpose to manage to-dos for work or school - Customize the background with colors or photos to make a notepad that's truly yours - Choose cute fonts and freely adjust the text size ■ Organize with lists and headings Keep shopping lists, to-do lists, and packing lists as checklists. Checked items get a strikethrough, so you can see what's left at a glance. - Checklists — tap to tick off, right from your Home Screen widget - Bullet and dash lists — line up tasks and things to buy - Numbered lists — for steps, recipes, anything where order matters - Headings — use Title, Heading, and Subheading to break up longer notes - Everything looks the same on iPhone, iPad, widgets, and Apple Watch ■ Powerful customization - Background of your choice (color, pattern, or photo) - Switch fonts (handwriting-style and cute fonts available) - Adjust text size, line height, and letter spacing - Change text color - Set your own photo as the background ■ Suggested uses - Keep your schedule, to-dos, and tasks in plain sight on the Home Screen - Build a shopping list as a checklist and tick items off at the store - Pack for a trip with a checklist you tick as you go - Lay out steps or recipes as a numbered list - Break long notes into sections with headings ■ Handy memo features - Character count helps you gauge length for social posts or assists with writing - Undo or redo your latest input with a single tap - Copy the memo's contents with one tap - Share memos to other apps or run various actions from the share sheet ■ Show a Note Large on Your Lock Screen Notes you only need to check for a while — like a shopping list or a packing list — are handy to show on the Lock Screen. Just glance at the screen; there’s no need to unlock. Unlike a widget, you don’t have to set aside space in advance. Show the note from the menu when you need it, and end it once you’re done. - Switch by situation: a shopping list while you shop, a packing list while you travel - You can show several notes at the same time - When you edit the note, the Lock Screen updates too - For notes you want to keep visible all the time, a Lock Screen widget is a better fit ■ Fully optimized for iPad - The note screen is optimized for the iPad's larger display - Full support for window resizing. Side by side with another app or scaled down, the layout adapts to the width automatically - Works with Split View, Slide Over, Stage Manager, and windowed apps - Use the whole screen in portrait or landscape - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets work on iPad too - Keep a note open next to whatever you're reading or looking up ■ Widget types - Memo widget - Memo list widget - Lock Screen-only widget - Apple Watch widget ■ Get more with Premium Upgrade to Premium to keep the simple feel and unlock even handier extras. Benefit 1. All ads removed Benefit 2. Set your own photos as memo backgrounds (use wallpapers from your favorite anime or manga, family photos, anything you love) Benefit 3. The memo list widget becomes available *The one-time Pro plan supports Family Sharing, so when one family member buys it, everyone in the family can use Premium features. ■ Subscription Please review the following for subscription terms: - Privacy Policy: https://rands-app.com/privacy-policy-en/ - Terms of Use: https://rands-app.com/terms-en/
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Verdict
Text Widget Noti and Sticky Notes both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 60% of Sticky Notes's written reviews are positive against 39% of Text Widget Noti's. Sticky Notes also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (501 vs 49). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Text Widget Noti sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Sticky Notes sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Text Widget Noti against 4.6 for Sticky Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes has 501 ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Text Widget Noti's written reviews are positive against 60% of Sticky Notes's.
Text Widget Noti ships an update monthly, Sticky Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Widget Noti | Sticky Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (49 ratings) | 4.6 (501 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 | 501 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 221 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Holland | Shota Yamashita |
Customer experience
Text Widget Noti
Sticky Notes
Bugs and requests
Text Widget Noti
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sticky Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- Newly created notes not showing up on home screen
- Duplicated notes with same content
- Inability to change default font and background settings
- Disappearing notes after app updates
Requested features
5 requests- Allow text formatting (bold, italic, underline)
- Add checklist/to-do list functionality
- Implement iCloud sync and cross-device support
- Provide option to remove app branding from widget
- Add ability to set reminders/alarms for notes
In-app purchases
Text Widget Noti
- Noti Premium$1.991 Month
- Noti Premium3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Noti Premium$29.99
Sticky Notes
- Ad Hiding$1.991 Month
- Monthly Plan$2.491 Month
- Yearly Plan$12.991 Year
- Tip$1.00
- Generous Tip$5.00
- Greatest Tip$10.00
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- Lifetime Plan$19.99
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