Comparison

LockScreenNotes vs Qingji

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

Head to head
About

LockScreenNotes

Create personalized wallpapers with custom text for daily affirmations, reminders, or goals. Easily set your text-based designs as your lock screen to see your message every time you unlock your phone. Designed for simplicity with curated colors and fonts.

Highlights
  • Create custom text wallpapers
  • Set as lock screen or wallpaper
  • Choose from 20 curated colors
  • Select from various font styles
  • No account or learning curve
  • Minimalist design
Features
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Turn your wallpaper into a daily affirmation. bg text lets you create simple, beautiful wallpapers with custom text — and pin a note or checklist right on your Lock Screen. Add an affirmation, manifestation quote, goal or to-do — and see it every time you pick up your phone. Your lock screen is the first thing you see dozens of times a day. Make it count. HOW IT WORKS - Tap to type your reminder - Pick from 20 curated colors or use a custom one - Choose a font that fits your style - Save and set as your wallpaper or lock screen - Or tap Show on Lock Screen to keep it there as a live note It takes seconds. No account needed. No learning curve. USE IT FOR - Lock Screen notes: shopping list, today's to-dos, "don't forget the keys" - Daily reminders: "drink water", "take meds", "call mom" - Motivation: "you got this", "keep going", "one day at a time" - Goals: "gym at 6", "no phone before 9am", "read 30 min" - Mindfulness: "breathe", "be present", "let it go" - Manifestation & woo woo: "I am abundant", "universe has my back", "I attract success" - Study focus: "finals in 2 weeks", "stay off socials" - Habit building: "no sugar", "journal tonight", "stretch" - Vision board: put your biggest goal front and center - Relationship reminders: "be patient", "listen more" DESIGNED TO BE MINIMAL No busy templates. No stock photos. No distracting graphics. Just your words on a clean gradient or solid-color background. Pick from 20 hand-picked Pantone-inspired colors, or dial in your own with the custom color picker. FONTS THAT FIT YOUR VIBE Choose from a curated set of fonts — modern, classic, bold, or handwritten. Every wallpaper looks intentional, not generic. NOTES ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Put a note or checklist on your Lock Screen — big, always visible, no unlocking needed. Write a to-do list, shopping list or reminder, style it with your gradient and font, and tick items off right from the Lock Screen. It's a sticky note that never falls off — and never gets buried in a notes app you forget to open. WHY PEOPLE LOVE IT - See your goals every time you pick up your phone - Build habits with visual cues on your home screen - Replace doomscrolling triggers with purpose - Keep it private — no social sharing, no accounts - Notes, memo & to-do list on the Lock Screen — tap to check off COMPLETELY FREE. NO ADS. bg text is free to use and contains no ads, no trackers, no in-app purchases. Just a simple, focused tool that does one thing well. Your phone. Your words. Your reminder.

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Qingji

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An ordinary day can still be worth keeping. Your favorite coffee. A conversation that made you smile. A little feeling you don't want to forget. Save it in Qingji, one note at a time. You don't need a perfect diary entry to begin. LEAVE YOURSELF A LITTLE NOTE Pin thoughts, feelings and small plans to your board. Tap the voice button to turn speech into text, or hold it to record a voice note you can play back later. Keep up to 10 photos together in one photo note and swipe through them whenever you like. MAKE A PAGE THAT FEELS LIKE YOU Add tape to a photo, a cat beside a sentence, or a few lines of your own. Move and rotate words, photos, stickers and doodles on the canvas. Go full screen for more room to create. Journal editing is included with membership. LET BUDDY HELP WITH THE LAYOUT Members can choose the day's notes and photos, share a mood, and pick a style. Try a simple or complex layout, then keep editing every element yourself. Make another version or undo to return to the previous page. You can leave the editor while a layout is being generated and check its status in your journal list. FIND YOUR KIND OF CUTE Cats, flowers, food, travel treasures, paper scraps, tickets and tape. Explore animated stickers and English text designs, and collect the little details that make a page yours. All materials are included with membership. LOOK BACK AND SHARE Find notes and journals by date. With the same account, sync between iPhone and iPad when connected. Choose a frame, export your finished page as an image, and send a little piece of your day to someone you love. Some days are bright. Some are a little messy. They're all yours to keep. MEMBERSHIP AND STORAGE Monthly membership includes journal editing, automatic layouts, all materials, 1 GB of cloud storage, unlimited sharing, watermark removal and member-only sharing frames. An extra 1 GB of storage is available as a separate monthly subscription. Without membership, each journal can be shared once; canceled shares don't count. GETTING STARTED Your first visit requires an internet connection and sign-in with Apple, Google or email. The preview before sign-in is a demo and doesn't save real entries. Creating journals and using in-app subscriptions, renewals or offer codes requires Sign in with Apple. Journal editing and automatic layouts require an active membership. Accounts signed in with Google or email have 10 MB of cloud storage. SAVING AND PROCESSING Entries save to your device first and sync when connected. Keep the original device's data until syncing finishes. Speech-to-text doesn't save the original audio. Voice notes you choose to save are backed up and count toward cloud storage. Automatic layouts process selected text and compressed photos in the cloud; complex layouts also use a page preview. See the privacy policy for details. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LockScreenNotes4 screens
Qingji4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LockScreenNotes at none against Qingji's 2. LockScreenNotes also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Qingji sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. LockScreenNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LockScreenNotes versus Qingji: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLockScreenNotesQingji
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPairwise TechYuanyu Weilai (shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

LockScreenNotes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Qingji

Subscriptions2
  • 1 GB Monthly Storage Upgrade$0.991 Month
  • Standard Monthly Membership1 Month trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is LockScreenNotes free?
LockScreenNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Qingji free?
Qingji is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LockScreenNotes or Qingji have ads?
Neither LockScreenNotes nor Qingji shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LockScreenNotes or Qingji?
LockScreenNotes ships an update weekly, and Qingji weekly. Most recently, LockScreenNotes was updated on October 25, 2026 and Qingji on October 25, 2026.

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