Comparison

WeeNote Notes and Widget vs PDFForge

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

Head to head
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

About

PDFForge

Transform your iPhone into a comprehensive document management tool. Easily scan, edit, sign, and extract text from PDFs with advanced OCR capabilities. Sync your work across devices seamlessly.

Highlights
  • High-quality document scanning
  • Bulk scanning for multiple pages
  • Full PDF editing toolkit
  • Advanced OCR text recognition
  • Digital signature insertion
  • iCloud cross-device syncing
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PDFForge – All-in-One PDF Scanner & Editor Turn your iPhone into a complete document hub with PDFForge — the ultimate tool to scan, edit, sign, and extract text from PDFs quickly and securely. Scan Smarter: High-Quality Scans – Capture sharp, clear documents with smart edge detection. Bulk Scanning – Scan multiple pages in one go — perfect for notes, receipts, or multi-page PDFs. Edit Like a Pro: Full Editing Toolkit – Reorder, rotate, duplicate, or delete pages effortlessly. Import Anything – Add pages from other PDFs, your device, or scan new pages instantly. Annotations & Signatures – Highlight, underline, strike through, add text, or insert your signature. Powerful OCR Text Recognition: Smart OCR Engine – Instantly convert scanned pages into editable, searchable text. Saved OCR Results – Copy, share, or review previous text extractions from your organized history. Sync Across Devices: iCloud Integration – All documents and edits stay synced and accessible across all your Apple devices. Whether you're a student, professional, or just going paperless, PDFForge gives you everything you need to manage PDFs — all in one sleek, fast app. Start free with 3 scans, 3 edits, and 3 OCR uses. Unlock unlimited access with a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no recurring fees.

Screenshots

WeeNote Notes and Widget4 screens
PDFForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PDFForge at 86% against WeeNote Notes and Widget's 20%. PDFForge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. WeeNote Notes and Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and PDFForge sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PDFForge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of WeeNote Notes and Widget's written reviews are positive against 86% of PDFForge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
WeeNote Notes and Widget versus PDFForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeeNote Notes and WidgetPDFForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlina VetrovMefjuDev LLC

Customer experience

WeeNote Notes and Widget

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

PDFForge

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WeeNote Notes and Widget

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

PDFForge

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • 3 Months$7.993 Months
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • PDFForge Pro$0.99

Questions

Is WeeNote Notes and Widget free?
WeeNote Notes and Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDFForge free?
PDFForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WeeNote Notes and Widget or PDFForge?
PDFForge is rated higher. WeeNote Notes and Widget averages 3.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while PDFForge averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do WeeNote Notes and Widget or PDFForge have ads?
Neither WeeNote Notes and Widget nor PDFForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeeNote Notes and Widget or PDFForge?
WeeNote Notes and Widget ships an update every 2 weeks, and PDFForge every 2 weeks. Most recently, WeeNote Notes and Widget was updated on September 18, 2026 and PDFForge on September 24, 2026.

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