Shared Note Widgets vs CleanPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shared Note Widgets
Create and share simple text notes directly on your home screen. Keep family and friends updated with lists, reminders, or positive messages. Customize widget appearance and layout for a personalized experience.
- Create simple text notes
- Add notes to home screen widgets
- Share notes with friends and family
- Checkbox mode for lists
- Customizable widget appearance
- Light and dark mode support
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Create simple text notes, add them to your home screen, then share! Friends and family always have up-to-date content. Use it for a family grocery list, reminders, or to send positive messages to friends. What makes this app special: * Ads can be disabled for free, and they never show up in the widget. * App supports light and dark mode. * Super simple editing experience * Switch to "checkbox" mode to quickly go through a shopping or to - do list * Customize the appearance of your widget: Choose the color, layout and other content settings. * Sharing notes is a bonus of this simple-to-use app!
CleanPad
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and memories in a cozy and secure digital space. This app offers a minimalist interface with customizable categories and enhanced privacy features, including automatic locking and biometric authentication for your notes.
- Cozy and customizable design
- Distraction-free editing
- Note categorization and tagging
- Automatic private note locking
- Biometric authentication
- Local storage for privacy
- Grid and list view options
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CleanPad is thoughtfully designed to provide a cozy and secure space for capturing your thoughts, ideas, and memories. With its inviting design and focus on privacy, it feels like a personal sanctuary for note-taking. CleanPad features a minimalist interface that helps you focus on what truly matters. With customizable categories, enhanced privacy, and an experience designed to feel at home, CleanPad makes keeping your thoughts organized simple and intuitive. Features: • Cozy Design: A warm, thoughtfully crafted interface that feels at home and transitions seamlessly between light and dark modes. • Streamlined Editing: A clean and distraction-free Edit Screen for updating titles and content, as well as categorizing, sharing, or deleting your notes. • Categories: Organize your notes with ease. Create, edit, and delete categories, then filter your notes using beautiful color-coded tags. • Private Notes: Keep personal notes in a protected space that locks automatically when you leave the app and supports Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode for secure access. • Seamless Navigation: The Dock keeps everything within reach, letting you navigate your notes, access categories, and create new notes with ease. • Local Storage: Your notes stay exclusively on your device, keeping your thoughts personal and private. • Customizable Views: Switch effortlessly between grid and list views to organize your notes your way. NOTE: List View is available only on iOS. • Quick Actions: Long-press a note to quickly share it, move it to or remove it from the private space, or delete it. • VoiceOver Support: Enhanced accessibility features help make CleanPad inclusive and easy to navigate with VoiceOver. Rediscover the joy of note-taking with CleanPad, a place where your ideas and memories stay private, accessible, and beautifully organized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CleanPad at 5.0 against Shared Note Widgets's 1.0. CleanPad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Shared Note Widgets's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
CleanPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Shared Note Widgets ships an update every 3 weeks, CleanPad monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Note Widgets | CleanPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Rich | Uriel Alejandro Ortega Aguilar |
Customer experience
Shared Note Widgets
CleanPad
In-app purchases
Shared Note Widgets
No in-app purchases
CleanPad
No in-app purchases









