Comparison

Sticky Notes vs Tearpad

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

Head to head
About

Sticky Notes

Capture thoughts, lists, and sketches on digital sticky notes. Organize and highlight important items for easy access via widgets and Live Activities. Enjoy a clutter-free way to manage your daily tasks and ideas.

Highlights
  • Digital sticky notes
  • Text, todo, and drawing notes
  • Colorful note styles
  • Saved notes gallery
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Live Activity support
Features
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Posty brings the feeling of sticky notes to your iPhone without the paper clutter. Capture quick thoughts, small lists, sketches, ideas, and daily tasks on colorful digital sticky notes. Choose between text notes, todo notes, and drawing notes, then curl the corner to save what matters. Keep important notes close. Mark one saved note as your highlight and see it in a Home Screen widget. For todo notes, check items off from the widget or follow your progress from a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Posty is built for quick capture: - Text notes for ideas, notes, and reminders to yourself - Todo notes for simple checklists - Drawing notes for sketches and doodles - Colorful sticky note styles - A saved notes gallery - Highlighted note widgets - Live Activity support for todo progress No paper, no clutter, just the note you need when you need it.

About

Tearpad

Features
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I kept opening my notes app to jot down one quick thing and getting hit with folders, tags, and a pile of old notes I forgot to delete. I just wanted a pad of paper. So I made one. Tearpad opens straight to today's page. Cursor's already blinking, so you just write. There's no title to fill in, nothing to file, no place to put it. When tomorrow rolls around, it turns to a clean page on its own. Yesterday's is one swipe back, curling away like a real notebook. That's really the whole thing. It's for the notes you'd scribble on a sticky and throw out later. A phone number, a grocery list, the two things you have to do before lunch. Stuff that doesn't need a filing system. What you get: • Opens to today every single time • A fresh page shows up on its own, so you're never staring at last week's leftovers • Swipe to flip back through your old pages • Checklists, bullets, and numbered lists, right there in the text • A few paper colors, textures, and typefaces if you want to make it yours • No account, no sign in, nothing to set up If you like it, there's one optional purchase that unlocks the extras. It's a one time thing. I'm not going to charge you every month for a notepad.

Screenshots

Sticky Notes4 screens
Tearpad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sticky Notes at none against Tearpad's 1. Tearpad's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tearpad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sticky Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes ships an update fortnightly, Tearpad daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sticky Notes versus Tearpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky NotesTearpad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (33 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSE IALEJANDRO GUERREROJoshua Hutchins

In-app purchases

None

Sticky Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tearpad

One-time1
  • Support Tier$0.99

Questions

Is Sticky Notes free?
Sticky Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tearpad free?
Tearpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sticky Notes or Tearpad have ads?
Neither Sticky Notes nor Tearpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes or Tearpad?
Sticky Notes ships an update fortnightly, and Tearpad daily. Most recently, Sticky Notes was updated on October 28, 2026 and Tearpad on October 25, 2026.

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