Comparison

Star Tasks 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

Star Tasks

This app uses gamification to help you overcome procrastination and complete tasks. Earn stars for finishing to-dos, unlocking new features as you become more productive. Enjoy a polished experience with widgets and live activities, all without ads or data selling.

Highlights
  • Gamified task completion
  • Star rewards system
  • Unlockable features via achievements
  • Widgets and Live Activities
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or data selling
Features
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Welcome to Star Tasks – a gamified approach for you to stop procrastinating and complete planned tasks and chores. Make your brain *want* to accomplish todos the way best games make you want to play them – by leveraging interactions that release dopamine and make your conscious fancy being productive. You finish a task – you get a star! As simple as that. Star Tasks is a polished little app that feels at home on your device with familiar features like Widgets, Live Activities, App Intents, Alternative Icons and more. It doesn’t require you to log in or be connected to the internet, doesn’t have ads and doesn’t sell any data of yours. One of the things you won’t find anywhere else is a mechanic called Achievements. Star Tasks offers a great amount of features which aren’t available when you download the app. You first need to actually “achieve” them by collecting certain amount of stars, setting goals certain amount of days etc. So the more productive you are, the more features are available to you. This is yet another step Star Tasks takes to help you gamify the daily routines and make it enjoyable to being effective. Achievements and corresponding features are activated for Gold members but if you don’t feel like subscribing to Gold, that’s ok, all the progress will be saved behind the scenes and when you’re ready, those features will be waiting for you Terms and Conditions (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Star Tasks4 screens
WeeNote Notes and Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Star Tasks at 100% against WeeNote Notes and Widget's 20%. Star Tasks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4). WeeNote Notes and Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Star Tasks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days 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

Star Tasks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Star Tasks's written reviews are positive against 20% of WeeNote Notes and Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Star Tasks ships an update every 3 months, WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Star Tasks versus WeeNote Notes and Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar TasksWeeNote Notes and Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better3.4 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings612 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman MirzoyanAlina Vetrov

Customer experience

Star Tasks

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WeeNote Notes and Widget

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

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Star Tasks

Subscriptions4
  • Gold Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Gold Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Gold Monthly$2.991 Month
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  • Gold Annually7 Days trial2 variants$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Rewards unlock$9.99
  • Star Tasks Gold Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

WeeNote Notes and Widget

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

Questions

Is Star Tasks free?
Star Tasks 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, Star Tasks or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Star Tasks is rated higher. Star Tasks averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while WeeNote Notes and Widget averages 3.4 from 12 ratings.
Do Star Tasks or WeeNote Notes and Widget have ads?
Neither Star Tasks nor WeeNote Notes and Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Star Tasks or WeeNote Notes and Widget?
Star Tasks ships an update every 3 months, and WeeNote Notes and Widget every 2 weeks. Most recently, Star Tasks was updated on September 24, 2026 and WeeNote Notes and Widget on October 22, 2026.

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