Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes vs Hey Max
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes
A free and easy-to-use notepad app offering widgets, reminders, and photo attachments. Organize notes with unlimited folders, set deadlines, and utilize features like character counts and dark mode. All functionalities are completely free.
- Unlimited folders with color and pin options
- Photo attachments and handwritten notes
- Reminders with repeated notification support
- Home screen widgets for folders and notes
- Character count and note priority settings
- Dark mode support
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It's a simple and easy-to-use notepad app. Widgets, reminders, photo attachments, folders, character counts are available. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited number of folders - Folder color - Pin the folder - Display notes and number of notes in the folder list - Folder sorting - Folder batch deletion - Unlimited number of notes - Note editing date and time - Character count - Handwritten notebook - Note color - Note with link - Multiple photos attached to the notebook - Note deadline setting - Display of the number of days remaining until the note deadline - Note notification settings (supports repeated notifications) - Select badge display for each note - Pin fixing the notebook - Note priority setting - Note keyword search - Note sorting - Note display order setting - Batch deletion of notes - Move / duplicate notes between folders - Batch copy / share notes - Bulk photo copy / share - Home screen widget support (folder / note selectable) - Icon badge display - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: notepadwidget://
Hey Max
An intelligent AI personal assistant that can chat, generate ideas, write emails, send messages, and make calls. It offers real-time visual analysis through your camera and remembers your preferences for a personalized experience.
- AI-powered chat and idea generation
- Email and message composition
- Voice and video calling
- Real-time visual analysis via camera
- Multilingual translation
- Personalized memory and assistance
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Meet Hey Max, your AI companion for everyday life. Talk naturally with Max, ask questions, get help, create, translate and use Max Vision to understand what’s around you. ENHANCED CALLS & MESSAGING Make voice and video calls with Hey Max contacts, send messages and easily see recent, incoming, outgoing and missed calls. MAX DESKTOP Turn ideas into reality. Max Desktop is a powerful workspace for iPad and desktop computers. Build apps and websites, create images and social content, write books, scripts and documents, and organize projects and files with Max helping you along the way. CREATOR MODE Create content, captions, images and projects with Max. MAX PORTAL Extend Hey Max to supported devices and stay connected with Max, friends and family. TRANSLATION & LANGUAGES Translate conversations, practice languages and communicate across language barriers. MAXINE A kid-focused experience for learning, homework, languages, creativity and projects with parental controls. Talk. Create. Learn. Communicate. Build. Just say, “Hey Max…” TERMS OF USE {EULA}: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hey Max at none against Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes's shown. Hey Max also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes against 5.0 for Hey Max. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes ships an update every 2 months, Hey Max every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes | Hey Max |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | stephen marlow |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes
No in-app purchases
Hey Max
No in-app purchases
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