Comparison

Sticky Notes vs Note on Wallpaper

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

Head to head
About

Sticky Notes

This app allows you to create and pin digital sticky notes to your home and lock screens for quick access. Organize tasks, shopping lists, and schedules with customizable checklists, bullet points, and headings. Personalize your notes with various fonts, colors, and backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Pin notes to Home and Lock Screens
  • Checklists for lists and tasks
  • Customizable backgrounds and fonts
  • Organize with lists and headings
  • Sort memos into folders
  • Search memos
Features
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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/

About

Note on Wallpaper

Capture screenshots and set them as your device's wallpaper. This tool allows you to take a picture directly within the app and immediately apply it to your background.

Highlights
  • Take screenshots within the app
  • Set screenshots as wallpaper
  • Direct camera integration
  • Simple wallpaper customization
Features
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Set the screenshot taken with this app as your wallpaper. (You can take a screenshot with the camera button on the app screen)

Screenshots

Sticky Notes4 screens
Note on Wallpaper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sticky Notes at 4.6 against Note on Wallpaper's 4.2. Sticky Notes also leads on ratings volume (530 vs 16). Note on Wallpaper's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 61%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sticky Notes sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Note on Wallpaper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sticky Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes has 530 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Sticky Notes's written reviews are positive against 80% of Note on Wallpaper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, Note on Wallpaper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticky Notes versus Note on Wallpaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky NotesNote on Wallpaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (530 ratings) — better4.2 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings530 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size270 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShota YamashitaSyncly Applications

Customer experience

Sticky Notes

All ratings530 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral10.4%
Negative28.6%

Note on Wallpaper

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral18.8%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative4.0%

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

Note on Wallpaper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Sticky Notes

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Plan$2.491 Month
  • Ad Hiding$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan$14.991 Year
One-time4
  • Tip$1.00
  • Generous Tip$5.00
  • Greatest Tip$10.00
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  • Lifetime Plan$39.99
1 purchases

Note on Wallpaper

One-time1
  • Remove ads$3.99

Questions

Is Sticky Notes free?
Sticky Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note on Wallpaper free?
Note on Wallpaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Notes or Note on Wallpaper?
Sticky Notes is rated higher. Sticky Notes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 530 ratings, while Note on Wallpaper averages 4.2 from 16 ratings.
Do Sticky Notes or Note on Wallpaper have ads?
Both Sticky Notes and Note on Wallpaper show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes or Note on Wallpaper?
Sticky Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, and Note on Wallpaper fortnightly. Most recently, Sticky Notes was updated on November 7, 2026 and Note on Wallpaper on November 3, 2026.

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