Comparison

Sticky Tasks vs Gravity Notes

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

Head to head
About

Sticky Tasks

Capture visual cues with photos to create task reminders. Set deadlines and receive notifications to ensure tasks are completed, with a completion photo for accountability. This app turns your environment into a simple, effective reminder system.

Highlights
  • Photo visual cues for tasks
  • Set task deadlines
  • Countdown timer
  • Deadline notifications
  • Completion photos
  • Simple interface
Features
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If you’re someone who keeps sticky notes on your desk, leaves packages near the door so you’ll remember to return them, or lets chores pile up until they blend into the background, this app makes those reminders impossible to ignore. Just snap a photo of the visual cue, name the task, and set a deadline. Sticky Tasks tracks the countdown, tells you when the deadline is coming up, and notifies you the moment you miss it. When you finish the task, take a completion photo to mark it done. No complicated systems. No endless to-do lists. Sticky Tasks works with the way you already remember things - your physical environment. How it works: - Photo your visual cue (sticky note, object, package, mess, anything). - Set a deadline you actually intend to hit. - Watch the countdown so the task doesn’t fade away. - Get notified before and after the deadline. - Finish the task and snap a completion photo for accountability. Perfect for: - People who rely on visual cues to remember tasks - Anyone who loses track of chores, returns, paperwork, or small obligations - People who want a simple tool that actually helps them follow through Turn your environment into an accountability system. Stop forgetting the things that matter.

About

Gravity Notes

This app organizes your thoughts into a single, chronological list. Easily rescue important notes by swiping them back to the top, or archive and delete less relevant ones. Supports Markdown formatting and custom tags for efficient organization and offline search.

Highlights
  • Single chronological note list
  • Swipe to rescue, archive, or delete
  • Markdown formatting and checklists
  • Customizable tags for categorization
  • Offline search with typo correction
  • Home Screen widget for quick entry
  • Multiple theme and text size options
Features
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Gravity keeps all your notes in one list, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the list. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It finds what you mean as well as what you typed: "sofa" finds your note about the couch. Typos, plurals, accents and shorthand like appt still find the note, and dates, phone numbers and amounts match however you write them. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the list. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no ads, and you don't need an account. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. Gravity Sync (Beta) syncs with Android too, free during the beta. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from six text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Sticky Tasks4 screens
Gravity Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sticky Tasks at Free against Gravity Notes's $9.99. Sticky Tasks also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On rating, 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

Sticky Tasks is free to download; Gravity Notes costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sticky Tasks against 5.0 for Gravity Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Sticky Tasks's written reviews are positive against 92% of Gravity Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Tasks ships an update weekly, Gravity Notes every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticky Tasks versus Gravity Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky TasksGravity Notes
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better91.7% of reviews
Number of ratings59 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDerainged LLCTristan Manchester

Customer experience

Sticky Tasks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gravity Notes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

Sticky Tasks

No in-app purchases

None

Gravity Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sticky Tasks free?
Sticky Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gravity Notes free?
Gravity Notes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Tasks or Gravity Notes?
Sticky Tasks and Gravity Notes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Sticky Tasks or Gravity Notes have ads?
Neither Sticky Tasks nor Gravity Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Tasks or Gravity Notes?
Sticky Tasks ships an update weekly, and Gravity Notes every 11 days. Most recently, Sticky Tasks was updated on October 30, 2026 and Gravity Notes on November 9, 2026.

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