Widget Memo vs Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Memo
This app provides a simple way to create and display notes directly on your home screen using widgets. It aims to offer a faster and more accessible note-taking experience compared to standard memo applications.
- Home screen widgets
- Simple note-taking
- Fast note creation
- Easy visibility of notes
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Widget Note is simple note and running on home screen as the widtget. There is a similar widget in the iOS standard memo app, but this app is an app that leaves notes faster and makes it easier to see. Please give it a try!
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Create and display customizable sticky notes directly on your home screen using a variety of widgets. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and colors for each note. Easily manage, edit, and reorder your memos, with iCloud backup for cross-device syncing.
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable backgrounds
- Handwritten-style fonts
- Adjustable text color and size
- Drag-and-drop reordering
- iCloud data backup and sync
- Supports iOS 18 control widgets
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Sticky Note Widget is a memo app built for widgets. Write a note, then put it straight onto your Home Screen. UNLIMITED WIDGETS Turn as many notes as you like into widgets. A shopping list, something you need to remember, today's plan — just glance at your Home Screen. LOCK SCREEN TOO Supports Lock Screen widgets (inline and rectangular), plus an iOS 18 Control Center control to open the app instantly. STYLE EVERY NOTE • Free choice of background, text and side-stripe colors • Gradient backgrounds • Text size 10 to 50, plus bold • 5 fonts, including a handwriting style • 20 icons • Use your own photo as the background HANDY EXTRAS • Capture text with your camera and drop it into a note • Summarize or bullet-point a note with Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 on supported devices) • Back up and restore via iCloud • Drag and drop to reorder, swipe to delete GETTING STARTED 1. Tap + to create a note 2. Long-press the Home Screen, tap +, and choose Sticky Note Widget 3. Long-press the widget and choose Edit Widget to pick which note it shows If a widget doesn't refresh, use "Update widgets" in Settings. Free to use, supported by ads. A monthly plan removes all ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Widget Memo at none against Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's shown. Widget Memo also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 57%). Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (275 vs 23). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Widget Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad has 275 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Widget Memo's written reviews are positive against 57% of Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Widget Memo ships an update every 9 days, Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad every 4 days. Both last shipped on September 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Widget Memo | Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 4.7 (275 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 275 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryosuke Tamura | kazuhiro aonuma |
Customer experience
Widget Memo
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Bugs and requests
Widget Memo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Reported bugs
10 issues- App freezes and won't open after iOS update
- App crashes when trying to delete notes
- Text becomes garbled in widgets
- Notes content duplicates across widgets
- Cannot specify cursor position for editing
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- Add button obscured by Google search bar
- App crashes after a single note
- Line breaks occur prematurely in small widgets
- App crashes when creating a new page
- Notes disappear after touching them
Requested features
11 requests- Increase font size
- Add larger font size option
- Allow checking off completed items
- Allow image attachments
- Enable iCloud synchronization
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- Enable iPad and iPhone synchronization
- Allow more freedom in moving notes
- Improve widget update process
- Allow editing directly from widget
- Increase widget size to two icon widths
- Improve note ordering functionality
In-app purchases
Widget Memo
- 広告消去$2.99
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
- Premium Plan$0.991 Month
Questions
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