Comparison

Widget Memo vs Zero Scanner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Simple note-taking
  • Fast note creation
  • Easy visibility of notes
Features
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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!

About

Zero Scanner

Features
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Scan your documents and keep them entirely on your device. Zero Scanner is a document scanner built around one priority: your files never leave your phone. Receipts, tax paperwork, medical statements, contracts—the documents you'd never want anyone else to see are the ones that stay safest here. PRIVACY FIRST - Scanning, OCR, search, and PDF export all happen on-device - Zero network transmission. No analytics SDKs. No account required - No ads. No watermark FREE, WITH NO LIMITS - Scan documents (automatic edge detection, multi-page capture) - Import from the camera, your photos, or PDFs in Files - Export and share as PDF, JPEG, or PNG (image) - Organize with folders; reorder, add, and delete pages - Try OCR & full-text search free on your first 20 pages OCR & FULL-TEXT SEARCH PACK (one-time purchase, not a subscription) - OCR (text recognition) for Japanese and English - Full-text search across all your documents (no page limit) - Export searchable PDFs (with an invisible text layer) - Select and copy recognized text - Turn a folder of receipts into a yearly CSV—date, store, and amount extracted on device Doing your taxes or a medical-expense deduction? Pull the date, store, and amount from a folder of receipts and export a full year as one CSV (Pro). Unreadable fields are left blank so you can check them yourself—use it as a first draft for the tallying you'd otherwise type by hand. Receipts, tax documents, medical bills, insurance policies, contracts—snap them, keep them, and find them later by words instead of scrolling. "That receipt from last year," "the contract with the cancellation clause"—search finds them on-device in seconds. Because nothing goes to the cloud, you can safely store the money, health, and legal papers you'd never upload. You can also lock the app itself with Face ID, and back everything up to a single file when you switch phones. Export to PDF or image is always available. The pack is a single one-time purchase. No recurring fees, no hidden charges. And even on the free tier, scanning and image export stay unlimited and watermark-free.

Screenshots

Widget Memo4 screens
Zero Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

Widget Memo and Zero Scanner are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Widget Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Zero Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Memo ships an update every 9 days, Zero Scanner every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Widget Memo versus Zero Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget MemoZero Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyosuke TamuraYohei Kawazura

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widget Memo

One-time1
  • 広告消去$2.99
1 purchases

Zero Scanner

One-time1
  • OCR & Full-Text Search Pack$3.99

Questions

Is Widget Memo free?
Widget Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zero Scanner free?
Zero Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widget Memo or Zero Scanner have ads?
Neither Widget Memo nor Zero Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Widget Memo or Zero Scanner?
Widget Memo ships an update every 9 days, and Zero Scanner every 8 days. Most recently, Widget Memo was updated on October 12, 2026 and Zero Scanner on October 7, 2026.

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