Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad vs Quick Notes from Lock Screen
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/
Quick Notes from Lock Screen
Capture thoughts and tasks instantly without unlocking your device. Organize entries by groups, count characters, and set calendar notifications for tasks. Widgets offer quick access to notes and task management directly from your home or lock screen.
- Add notes from lock screen
- Organize notes and tasks by groups
- Character count, search, and replace
- Calendar integration for tasks with notifications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- App lock and backup
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"Quick Notes" is a convenient app that allows you to add new notes directly from the lock screen. Main Features ・Organize Notes and Tasks You can organize notes and Tasks by groups. ・Notes You can count the number of characters in a note, and perform text search and replace. ・TODOs You can add Tasks to the calendar and receive notifications. Additionally, you can check them off to mark them as completed. ・Widgets You can add widgets to your home screen or lock screen. With widgets, you can display notes or add new notes with a single tap. Other Features ・Theme Colors ・App Lock ・Backup
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quick Notes from Lock Screen at none against Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's 1. Quick Notes from Lock Screen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's advantage is ratings volume (275 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Quick Notes from Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Notes from Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad has 275 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad | Quick Notes from Lock Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (275 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 275 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kazuhiro aonuma | GENRYU SASAGAWA |
Customer experience
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
Quick Notes from Lock Screen
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
Quick Notes from Lock Screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad
- Premium Plan$0.991 Month
Quick Notes from Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
Questions
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