Santa Shop vs Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Santa Shop
Plan and track your holiday gift purchases with a festive touch. This app helps you manage your budget, update gift statuses, and store notes for each item. Enjoy seasonal themes and a countdown to Christmas while keeping your lists organized and secure.
- Track individual and total spending
- Update gift status (To Buy, Purchased, Wrapped)
- Store notes about each gift
- Christmas countdown
- Seasonal backgrounds and music
- Passcode lock
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Organize your shopping list in style this Festive Season. Santa Shop makes planning and tracking your spending fun. Fun - Realistic Snow - Christmas Music - Choose a Seasonal background image or use your own image from your Photo Library. - Count down the days remaining to Christmas - Festive UI Functional - Track Individual and Total spending. - Track the Amount Spent and Planned spend. - Update Gift status To Buy, Purchased and Wrapped. - Count of gifts per person. - Store notes about each gift. - Passcode lock to restrict unwanted access. Useful - Make a list of Reminders - Record your personal Wish List and email it to family and friends. - Simple and Easy to use
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://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes at 100% against Santa Shop's 79%. Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Santa Shop's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (255 vs 16). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Santa Shop has 255 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Santa Shop's written reviews are positive against 100% of Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes's.
Santa Shop ships an update every 3 weeks, Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Santa Shop | Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (255 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 255 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Blackburn | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Santa Shop
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In-app purchases
Santa Shop
No in-app purchases
Notepad Widget, Sticky Notes
No in-app purchases
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