Sticky Notes vs Home screen note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sticky Notes
Organize your life with customizable notes pinned to your home and lock screens. Create checklists, to-do lists, and schedules with various list formats and headings. Personalize your notes with custom backgrounds, fonts, and text sizes for quick access and easy management.
- Pin notes to Home and Lock Screens
- Checklists for shopping and packing
- Organize with lists and headings
- Customizable backgrounds and fonts
- Sort memos into folders
- Search all memos
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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, notebook (grid, lined), photo, or pattern) - Switch fonts (handwriting-style and cute fonts available) - Adjust text size, line height, and letter spacing - Change text color ■ 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 - Sort memos into folders by purpose, each with its own color and icon (symbol or emoji) - Pin memos you check often to keep them at the top of the list - Search all your memos to find the one you need fast, or find words within a memo - 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. - 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 ■ 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. Create unlimited memos (the free version allows up to 3) Benefit 3. Set your own photos as memo backgrounds Benefit 4. The memo list widget becomes available Benefit 5. The folder 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/
Home screen note
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Home screen note : Simple and useful todolist app. ● Check todos on the home screen ・Automatically displays the last opened note. ・No more worrying about forgetting to open the app. ●Check todo status easily on home screen ・You can see what is completed visually. ・If you press the check button on the right side, the background will turn grey. ▼▼Also, very useful note app ● Change todos easily with tab ・You don’t need to go back to the category list. ・Easy to change to other todo list with tab. ●Also, as a good note app ・You can change the contents of todolist to note. ・You can change the contents of note to todolist. ●Good usability ・Automatic saving. ・Hide tabs if you want to use the screen more widely. ・Easy to sort the list with dragging. ・Easy to delete the list with a horizontal slide ・Todolist with Tab ●Usages ・ Todo list ・ Shopping list ・ Check list ・ Tab todolist ・ Quick note etc..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Home screen note at none against Sticky Notes's 7. Home screen note also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Sticky Notes sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Home screen note asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sticky Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, Home screen note fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sticky Notes | Home screen note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (535 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 535 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shota Yamashita | Foodmenu.world Inc. |
Bugs and 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
Home screen note
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sticky Notes
- Monthly Plan$2.491 Month
- Ad Hiding$4.991 Month
- Yearly Plan$14.991 Year
- Tip$1.00
- Generous Tip$5.00
- Greatest Tip$10.00
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- Lifetime Plan$39.99
Home screen note
No in-app purchases
Questions
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