Comparison

Sticky Notes vs Home

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Create home screen widgets
  • Customize note size, color, and font
  • Multiple templates available
  • Dark mode support
  • Edit notes directly for widget updates
Features
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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

About

Home

Features
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Home Budget app gives you a service to track your monthly expenses or income very easiest and convenient way. You can add any expenditure like Bills, Shopping, Emi, Clothing also add income from rent, coupons, cards, salary etc. Track your expenses or income by chart and detailed view by date and month wise Also add your big monthly expenses like grocery, cylinder, electricity etc. Easy to use and search your expense or income by year and month quickly. Download reports of your expense in a well mannered Format.

Screenshots

Sticky Notes4 screens
Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Home at none against Sticky Notes's 2. Home also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Sticky Notes's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sticky Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes ships an update every 14 months, Home every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticky Notes versus Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky NotesHome
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB15 MB
Age rating+44+
Developer杏娣 吴Primosoft Inc

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sticky Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Sticky Notes Pro$1.491 Month
  • Sticky Notes Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Year
None

Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sticky Notes free?
Sticky Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Home free?
Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sticky Notes or Home have ads?
Home shows ads; Sticky Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes or Home?
Sticky Notes ships an update every 14 months, and Home every 3 months. Most recently, Sticky Notes was updated on October 21, 2026 and Home on October 27, 2026.

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