Comparison

Sticky Notes vs CountDaysNow

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Pin notes to Home and Lock Screens
  • Organize tasks by category
  • Customize backgrounds with photos
  • Cute font options
  • Character count display
  • Undo/Redo functionality
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 - 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/

About

CountDaysNow

Features
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Plan backwards from the dates that matter. Countdown Plan gives any event its own preparation steps, such as renew the passport 30 days before a trip or order the cake 7 days before a birthday, and shows what is late, due today, due in the next 7 days and done across all your events. Each step is due a set number of days before its event. Change the event date and every step moves with it; a repeating event starts each new cycle with a fresh plan. Countdown Plan is free, works on-device and needs no account. Daily Focus saves one private Since / Today / Ahead choice each day and preserves that dated trail as milestones change. No ads, no subscription, no account. One purchase unlocks everything for good. • Ahead · Today · Since CountDaysNow keeps future, current and past events in three clear views, with precise day counts and a date calculator for adding, subtracting or comparing dates. • Events, categories and archive Create and edit events, organize them into categories, search quickly and archive milestones without losing their history. • Recurrence, reminders and Calendar Set repeating events, including an optional end date, schedule reminders and import only the Calendar events you choose. • Widgets, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Put any event on Home Screen widgets in every size, including iPad Extra Large, keep a live countdown running in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, and let the Next 3 widget show your three closest dates at once. Apple Watch stays useful offline. • Milestone alerts and 15 calendars A gentle nudge arrives 7, 3 and 1 day before, on the day itself, at day 100 and on every anniversary. Any event can show a second calendar beside the Gregorian date: Chinese lunar, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Indian, Islamic, Buddhist and more. • 100 skins and share cards Browse all 100 countdown styles before unlocking them, each with its own palette and layout, then export a share card as a square, portrait or story image. • iCloud, shared countdowns and safe updates Events stay in step across your iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud, a single countdown can be shared with other CountDaysNow users and updated together, and a local snapshot is written before every update so nothing goes missing. Free The free edition supports up to 3 active events, 3 categories and 1 reminder for each event, plus one selected event widget. Archived events remain available. One-time Lifetime Pro A single Lifetime Pro purchase—never a subscription—unlocks unlimited events and categories; the complete gallery of 100 exclusive skins; advanced recurrence, reminders and calendars; every widget and the full Apple Watch experience; Badge, photo backgrounds, Face ID, iCloud and JSON backup, and high-resolution sharing. How do iCloud sync and shared countdowns work? With Lifetime Pro, optional iCloud sync keeps events and categories up to date across your devices through your private Apple CloudKit database. Share Countdown sends only the selected event’s title, note, target date, calendar system, time zone, all-day setting, recurrence, symbol and color to the CountDaysNow users you invite; reminders, categories, the Calendar source identifier, favorite and archive status, photo backgrounds and every other event remain private. Sync also carries the technical event identifier, created and updated timestamps, and conflict-resolution metadata; invitees can view and edit only the user-visible fields, not this technical metadata. The owner can stop sharing or delete the shared countdown, and participants can leave it. CountDaysNow uses no accounts, advertising, third-party analytics or tracking tools, and sends no data to developer servers. Optimized for iPhone Duo, with a two-column layout on the inner display in landscape.

Screenshots

Sticky Notes4 screens
CountDaysNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CountDaysNow at none against Sticky Notes's shown. CountDaysNow also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 CountDaysNow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes ships an update weekly, CountDaysNow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sticky Notes versus CountDaysNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky NotesCountDaysNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (518 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings518 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size261 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShota YamashitaGuan Feng Lai

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

CountDaysNow

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

CountDaysNow

One-time1
  • CountDaysNow Lifetime Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Sticky Notes free?
Sticky Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CountDaysNow free?
CountDaysNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sticky Notes or CountDaysNow have ads?
Sticky Notes shows ads; CountDaysNow does not.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes or CountDaysNow?
Sticky Notes ships an update weekly, and CountDaysNow every 3 days. Most recently, Sticky Notes was updated on October 15, 2026 and CountDaysNow on October 14, 2026.

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