Stickies vs Sticky Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stickies
Add customizable sticky notes directly to your iPhone and iPad's Home and Lock Screens. Easily jot down memos, inspirational quotes, or track habits with a variety of fonts and colors.
- Home Screen widgets
- Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable text and color
- Over 30 fonts
- Edit directly from widget
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Stickies is the best way to add sticky notes to your iPhone and iPad's Home Screen and Lock Screen. Use Stickies to write down important memos, get inspired by your favorite quotes or to help you build new habits. Press and hold on a Sticky Note widget to edit text, color and more — all without ever leaving the Home Screen. With over 30 fonts and colors, the combinations are endless.
Sticky Notes
Easily create customizable sticky note reminders for your home screen. Arrange thoughts with various sizes, colors, and fonts. This powerful tool acts as a reliable assistant for life scheduling and to-do lists.
- Create home screen widgets
- Customize note size, color, and font
- Multiple templates available
- Dark mode support
- Edit notes directly for widget updates
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Create a sticky note for your home screen with one tap. It's easy to use, super simple, but powerful reminder of your life scheduling and to-do-list. It can be your reliable assistant. You can edit the notes in this app and set it as your widget. Features: - Edit note and set it as widget - Markdown note - Handwriting note - Mind Map note - Dark mode ----- Sticky Notes Pro is available with a monthly or annual subscription. You can subscribe and pay through your Apple account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.zhihuke.com/stickynotes/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.zhihuke.com/stickynotes/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sticky Notes at 100% against Stickies's 29%. Sticky Notes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3). Stickies's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (467 vs 3). 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. Stickies sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Sticky Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sticky Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stickies has 467 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Stickies's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sticky Notes's.
Stickies ships an update weekly, Sticky Notes every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stickies | Sticky Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (467 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 467 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Luca Meghnagi | 杏娣 吴 |
Customer experience
Stickies
Sticky Notes
Bugs and requests
Stickies
Reported bugs
11 issues- App stuck on welcome/setup screen
- Text editing functionality not working
- Unable to create or open sticky notes
- Keyboard not appearing for text input
- Notes not saving or syncing
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- Widget freezing or becoming unresponsive
- Notes disappearing after stack rearrangement
- Pro version features inaccessible despite payment
- App crashes on iPad and iPhone
- Emoji input not displaying properly
- Help screen loops preventing note creation
Requested features
10 requests- Cross-device synchronization
- Direct lock screen widget placement
- Color picker for custom colors
- System adaptive/transparent backgrounds
- One-click note editing from home screen
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- Emoji support in notes
- Dark mode option
- Ability to rename notes
- Headline/formatting options
- Better font color customization
Sticky Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stickies
- Small Tip$2.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$6.99
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- Huge Tip$8.99
Sticky Notes
- Sticky Notes Pro$1.491 Month
- Sticky Notes Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Year
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