Comparison

Microsoft OneNote vs WeeNote Notes and Widget

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

Head to head
About

Microsoft OneNote

Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts and ideas
  • Digital sketchbook
  • Organize and search notes
  • Sync notes via OneDrive
  • Collaborate on shared notepads
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
Features
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Supercharge your productivity with OneNote. Organize thoughts and ideas, and simplify planning important moments with your digital note-taking. Smart notes on your phone can sync across all your devices with Microsoft OneNote. Combine the power of digital ink with the natural feel of a pen to help you sketch out your inspirations. Take smart notes and capture every detail with voice transcription. Our writing tools make it easy to capture your notes, review your content later, and access AI studying. Take smart notes, share writing ideas, organize note-taking, and collaborate on your creative ideas and writing - all with Microsoft OneNote. ONENOTE APP FEATURES: AI-POWERED COPILOT NOTEBOOKS • Make sense of your files with AI chat • Summarize meetings, classes, and discussions easily from your notes • Listen to audio overviews, created directly from the notes you take AI NOTE-TAKING WITH HOMEPAGE AND QUICK CAPTURE • Streamlined writing: Find notes from your connected accounts in one place to easily create, find, & act on your notes. Now with Samsung Notes integration. • AI workflows with Copilot: Capture text, voice, ink or images to your notepad with Quick Capture • Smart notes: Capture smart notes in ink. Click the pen button & write down thoughts • Write smart notes, draw & clip things from the web to add to your writing notebook SCAN PICTURES & EXTRACT TEXT FROM WRITING • Note-Taking Scanner: Scan documents, pictures, or files to extract writing • Capture images to extract text from documents & more • Apply different filters to change colors, add ink, crop images & more SMART NOTES & AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION • Voice smart notes: Take accurate notes with voice dictation • Click the Mic button to record, then click it again to end recording & save the file • Dictate smart notes in 27 languages (note some languages are in preview) & use Auto-Punctutation to format NOTE-TAKING THAT HELPS YOU ACHIEVE MORE • Organize writing using to-do lists, follow-up items, marks for what’s important & custom labels • Use OneNote as a notebook, journal or a notepad for work or AI studying • Notepad badge hovers on screen & lets you quickly write your thoughts down any time • NEW Sticky notes - Make quick memos & note-taking COLLABORATE WRITING & SHARE SMART NOTES • Write meeting notes, brainstorm projects, & draw attention to important points • Take notes & save ideas across your favorite devices, no matter what device your team likes to use BETTER TOGETHER WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE • OneNote is part of the Office family & works great with your favorite apps, such as Excel or Word, to help you do more Write notes, save ideas & keep up with your to-do list with Microsoft OneNote. APP REQUIREMENTS: OneNote is free on iPhone and many other devices. Get started today! Download OneNote and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. Monthly Microsoft 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your App Store account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. You can manage your subscriptions in your App Store account settings. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms for Microsoft 365. See “License Agreement” link under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.

About

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Organize your thoughts with colorful, customizable sticky notes and widgets. Add notes, drawings, and reminders directly to your home screen. Sync across devices and protect your data with password protection.

Highlights
  • Customizable color sticky notes
  • Home screen widgets
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
  • Timed reminders and notifications
  • Password protection for notes
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Categorization with sub-folders
Features
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WeeNote is a color sticky notes memo app with a widget for the home screen that can sync with your other devices. With WeeNote you will be able to create color note stickies and reminders, add notes to your home screen, resize notes and customize them to your liking. You will also be able to take handwritten notes and drawings and place the stickies on your home screen. In addition to that, you can set notes transparency and rotation angle to achieve different looks, as well as set your own image as a note background, and use custom fonts for your text. WeeNote sticky notes organizer will let you categorize your notes and keep them in a convenient colored sub folders system. You can keep them in an order that is suitable for your workflow, sort by various criteria, or manually drag and drop. Notes can be trashed, moved between folders, looked by a search term, shared as text , drawing or a screenshot. Notes can also serve you as a timed reminders that you can schedule to appear as notifications right when you need them. Protect your notes and folders with a password to keep them private. Online backup and data synchronization feature is available for app subscribers. You will be able to sync notes across multiple devices, and restore your data in case needed. The notes can be shown in a layout setup that will allow you to scroll through your notes in different directions, and view sub folders contents simultaneously. This feature can be useful for storyboarding, visualizing, planning, outlining and so on. The app is available for a period of 7 days to try, after that it will be required to purchase your copy to continue using WeeNote. Hope you enjoy WeeNote as much as we enjoyed working on it, and feel welcome to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions, or need technical support. Here is how to put sticky notes on your home screen: Go to your home screen, tap and hold a free space, tap + button, select WeeNote, add the widget. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weenoteapp.blogspot.com/p/weenote-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Microsoft OneNote4 screens
WeeNote Notes and Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft OneNote at 4.7 against WeeNote Notes and Widget's 3.6. Microsoft OneNote also leads on ratings volume (1.1M vs 11) and review sentiment (45% vs 20%). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Microsoft OneNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and WeeNote Notes and Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft OneNote holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft OneNote has 1.1M ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Microsoft OneNote's written reviews are positive against 20% of WeeNote Notes and Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Microsoft OneNote versus WeeNote Notes and Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft OneNoteWeeNote Notes and Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1M ratings) — better3.6 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews44.8% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1M — better11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#67 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size404 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationAlina Vetrov

Customer experience

Microsoft OneNote

All ratings1,064,189 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews2,678 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral12.1%
Negative43.1%

WeeNote Notes and Widget

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

Bugs and requests

Microsoft OneNote

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Cursor positioning is erratic
  • Search function does not work well
  • Ink to text conversion missing on iPad
  • Syncing issues, notes not syncing properly across devices
  • Crashing, freezing, and performance issues
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  • Scrolling issues, page jumping to top unexpectedly
  • Eraser tool deletes more than intended
  • Formatting issues when importing/exporting
  • Inconsistent behavior between desktop and mobile versions

Requested features

11 requests
  • Native Markdown support and merged cell support
  • Ruler, ability to choose or create notebook covers
  • Ability to password protect app or individual notebooks
  • Option to open on last opened page instead of Home
  • Ability to turn note into task that appears on To Do and Planner
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  • Search for tags, more Evernote-like search features
  • Ability to select text using 3D Touch
  • Option to limit page to A4 size with framing
  • Pencil feature like Notes app for drawing
  • Ability to delete notebooks
  • Ability to delete notes from Apple devices

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Microsoft OneNote

Subscriptions3
  • Microsoft 365 Personal1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal$11.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
2 purchases

WeeNote Notes and Widget

Subscriptions1
  • WeeNote Pro Sync$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • WeeNote Basic$4.99

Questions

Is Microsoft OneNote free?
Microsoft OneNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeeNote Notes and Widget free?
WeeNote Notes and Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft OneNote or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Microsoft OneNote is rated higher. Microsoft OneNote averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.1M ratings, while WeeNote Notes and Widget averages 3.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Microsoft OneNote or WeeNote Notes and Widget have ads?
Neither Microsoft OneNote nor WeeNote Notes and Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft OneNote or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Microsoft OneNote ships an update weekly, and WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. Most recently, Microsoft OneNote was updated on September 24, 2026 and WeeNote Notes and Widget on August 21, 2026.

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