Sticky Notes vs Color Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Digital sticky notes
- Text, todo, and drawing notes
- Colorful note styles
- Saved notes gallery
- Home Screen widgets
- Live Activity support
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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.
Color Notes
Organize your thoughts and tasks with a visually intuitive system. Assign pastel colors to notes, rename them to categorize, and filter your entries with a single tap. This app offers quick note-taking, organization features, and privacy by storing data locally.
- Color-coded notes
- Customizable color names
- Filtering by color
- Folders for organization
- Pinning important notes
- Search functionality
- Local data storage
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Color Notes is a fast, friendly notepad where every note gets a pastel color - and every color can mean something. Rename colors into Work, Office, Leisure, Urgent or anything you like, then filter your notes with one tap. COLOR IS THE SYSTEM - 12 soft pastel colors that look great in light and dark mode - Rename any color: Sage becomes "Mentorship", Storm becomes "Work" - Tap a color in the sidebar to see just those notes, with counts at a glance STAY ORGANIZED - Folders with their own colors for bigger projects - Pin important notes to the top - Search everything - titles and content - Grid or list view, sorted by date, title or color QUICK BY DESIGN - Long-press any note to pin, recolor, move, share, copy or duplicate - Notes save as you type; empty notes clean themselves up - Made for iPhone and iPad, with a proper sidebar layout on iPad - Hardware keyboard shortcut: Cmd-N for a new note PRIVATE Your notes are stored on your device. No account, no sign-up. FREE AND PRO Color Notes is free with 4 colors, up to 10 notes, and occasional ads. One single purchase unlocks all 12 colors, unlimited notes and removes every ad - forever. No subscription. Write it down. Color it in. Privacy Policy https://chalplex.blog/apps/color-notes/color-notes.php Terms of use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sticky Notes at 4.6 against Color Notes's 1.0. Sticky Notes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Color Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sticky Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sticky Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sticky Notes | Color Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (33 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JOSE IALEJANDRO GUERRERO | Chaleepa Mallawa |
In-app purchases
Sticky Notes
No in-app purchases
Color Notes
- Color Notes Pro$2.99
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