Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad vs Note on Wallpaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
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.
- Take screenshots within the app
- Set screenshots as wallpaper
- Direct camera integration
- Simple wallpaper customization
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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)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad at 4.7 against Note on Wallpaper's 4.2. Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (282 vs 16). Note on Wallpaper's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 57%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 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.
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad has 282 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad'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.
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad ships an update every 4 days, Note on Wallpaper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad | Note on Wallpaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (282 ratings) — better | 4.2 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kazuhiro aonuma | Syncly Applications |
Customer experience
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Note on Wallpaper
Bugs and 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
Note on Wallpaper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
- Premium Plan$0.991 Month
Note on Wallpaper
- Remove ads$3.99
Questions
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