Comparison

Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad vs Workly

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Workly

Features
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Need a work order form you can fill out on the job and hand to the customer? Workly turns the customer, the job, your labor hours and parts into a clean, printable work order PDF — no blank paper forms, no spreadsheet. Fill in the order number and date, the customer's details and the job description, add labor and parts lines, set a tax rate if you charge one, and tap Make Work Order PDF. • CUSTOMER AND JOB — customer name, phone, email and address, plus a job description and notes. Add your business name and contact details at the top if you like. • LABOR AND PARTS LINES — each line has a description, quantity or hours, and a rate or price; the amount is calculated for you. Up to 60 lines, continued onto extra pages when needed. • TOTALS DONE FOR YOU — labor subtotal, parts subtotal, optional tax and a bold total. • SIGNATURE LINES — spaces for the customer's and the technician's signature, each with a date line. • PRINT, SHARE OR SAVE — print on the spot, share the PDF, or save it to Files. Honest scope: Workly makes one work order at a time on US Letter pages; it doesn't keep a customer list, track payments or add a logo. Amounts are shown in your own currency, and decimal commas like 12,50 are read correctly. Signatures are signed by hand on the printed copy. Everything is made on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed. Try it free — 3 work orders. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited work orders. No subscription, no ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad4 screens
Workly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Workly at none against Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's shown. Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Workly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad ships an update every 4 days, Workly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad versus Workly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky Note Widget Memo PadWorkly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (279 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings279 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkazuhiro aonumaJhomar Maravillas

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
Show 5 more
  • 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

Workly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Plan$0.991 Month
1 purchases

Workly

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad free?
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workly free?
Workly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad or Workly have ads?
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad shows ads; Workly does not.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad or Workly?
Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad ships an update every 4 days, and Workly every 3 days. Most recently, Sticky Note Widget Memo Pad was updated on October 11, 2026 and Workly on October 10, 2026.

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