Widget Notes Home Lock Screen vs Doodle Draw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Create and customize widgets for your home screen to display notes and photos. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and set reminders with repeated notifications. Enjoy unlimited widgets and dark mode support.
- Unlimited home screen widgets
- Photo and background color options
- Customizable fonts
- Notes sharing and sorting
- Repeated notification reminders
- Dark mode support
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It's a notes & photos app compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited widgets on the home screen (all sizes supported) - Background settings: photo / background color (gradation) - Font settings: color / size / weight / position - Share / copy / sort notes - Reminders (with repeated notifications) - Dark mode - Free & no additional charge URL scheme: widgetnotes://
Doodle Draw
Transform your ideas into quick sketches with an intuitive drawing experience. This app offers a variety of brushes and colors to help you express your creativity on a digital canvas. It's designed for fast access, making it perfect for capturing inspiration whenever it strikes.
- Intuitive drawing experience
- Variety of brushes and colors
- Digital canvas for ideas
- Quick access for spontaneous creativity
- Suitable for artists and beginners
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Quickly transform thoughts into doodles. A sketchpad for your ideas, providing a fluid and intuitive drawing experience, perfect for both seasoned artists and those new to sketching. Embark on a creative journey equipped with a suite of tools. Select from various brushes and colors to vividly express your ideas. From fine lines to bold strokes, the digital canvas awaits your touch. Capture spontaneous moments of inspiration. Designed for quick access and ease of use, always ready when creativity calls. Your next masterpiece is just a tap away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Doodle Draw at none against Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's shown. Doodle Draw also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's advantage is ratings volume (113 vs 10). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Doodle Draw holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen has 113 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doodle Draw's.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, Doodle Draw every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Notes Home Lock Screen | Doodle Draw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (113 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Sindre Sorhus |
Customer experience
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Doodle Draw
In-app purchases
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
Doodle Draw
No in-app purchases
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