Code Widgets vs ScratchPads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Code Widgets
Organize loyalty cards and barcodes on your home screen with customizable widgets. Scan cards to add codes automatically for instant access. Enjoy a visually enhanced experience with color options.
- Store loyalty cards and barcodes
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Instant barcode access
- Automatic code scanning
- Visual color customization
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This app lets you keep all of your loyalty cards and barcodes in one place! Lightweight but highly customizable widgets. Allows you to organize your home screen as you want. Keep barcodes on the home screen to instantly access when you need them. Features: - Keep all of your loyalty cards in your iPhone, - Change colors for the better visual experience, - Add beautiful widgets on your home screen, - Scan your card to add code automatically.
ScratchPads
Quickly jot down notes and have them automatically saved. This utility app offers multiple scratch pads for easy organization and instant recall of your thoughts. Simply close the app to save your work.
- Multiple scratch pads
- Automatic note saving
- Quick text deletion
- Restores last active pad
- Simple interface
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Very simplistic utility app to allow for scratch pad notes to be quickly added and automatically saved. USE: Open app, select one of the "Pads", and record scratch pad notes. To clear a pad, tap the trash icon in the upper right side of the screen and then confirm to delete the pad text. To save the text, just close the app. FEATURES: Five different "Pads" to store scratch pad notes. Delete all text on a Pad with two taps. Scratch pad notes are automatically saved when the app is closed, and restored the next time the app is opened. The last active Pad tab is saved when the app is closed, and restored the next time the app is opened.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Code Widgets at Free against ScratchPads's $0.99. Code Widgets also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Code Widgets is free to download; ScratchPads costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Code Widgets against 5.0 for ScratchPads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Code Widgets ships an update weekly, ScratchPads every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Code Widgets | ScratchPads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcin Slusarek | Thomas Dalke |
Customer experience
Code Widgets
ScratchPads
In-app purchases
Code Widgets
No in-app purchases
ScratchPads
No in-app purchases
