Comparison

Sticky Notes vs BizStickies

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

BizStickies

This app provides floating sticky notes for your desktop that stay visible and organized. Access all your notes via a menu bar icon or a Home Screen widget on mobile devices. Notes sync automatically using your iCloud account.

Highlights
  • Floating desktop notes
  • iCloud sync
  • Checklists and bulleted lists
  • Customizable text
  • Tagging and search
  • Home Screen widget
Features
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BizStickies is a sticky note app for people who want a note in front of them, not filed away in an app they have to go and open. On the Mac, notes float on your desktop as small windows that stay where you put them. Keep them above other windows or let them sit behind. The menu bar icon holds every note you have, with search and tags, so nothing is ever more than one click away — and the Dock icon can be hidden entirely if you would rather it stayed out of the way. On iPhone and iPad, the same notes are a tap away, with a widget on your Home Screen showing the ones you have pinned. Everything syncs through your own iCloud account. There is no sign-up, no server of ours, and no account to manage — if you are signed in to iCloud, your notes are already on your other devices. WRITING • Checklists you tick off, with finished items collected out of the way • Bulleted lists, nested up to four levels • Type "- " or "[] " and it becomes a bullet or a checkbox • Links in your notes are recognised and openable • Choose the text size and typeface that suit you ORGANISING • Tags, with filtering • Pin the notes you want at the top • Seven paper colours • Search across every note • Recently Deleted, so a note is never gone by accident MAC • Floating notes that remember where they were • Menu bar access, with the Dock icon optional • A note reopens exactly where you left it IPHONE AND IPAD • A Home Screen widget for your pinned notes • A layout that uses the iPad's width properly Your notes are yours. They are stored on your device and in your private iCloud database, which we cannot read.

Screenshots

Sticky Notes4 screens
BizStickies3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sticky Notes at Free against BizStickies's $0.99. Sticky Notes also leads on ratings volume (34 vs 1). BizStickies's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

Sticky Notes is free to download; BizStickies costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BizStickies holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticky Notes ships an update fortnightly, BizStickies monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticky Notes versus BizStickies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticky NotesBizStickies
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (34 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSE IALEJANDRO GUERREROAurelian Ocean Investment LLC

In-app purchases

None

Sticky Notes

No in-app purchases

None

BizStickies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sticky Notes free?
Sticky Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BizStickies free?
BizStickies costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sticky Notes or BizStickies?
BizStickies is rated higher. Sticky Notes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while BizStickies averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sticky Notes or BizStickies have ads?
Neither Sticky Notes nor BizStickies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sticky Notes or BizStickies?
Sticky Notes ships an update fortnightly, and BizStickies monthly. Most recently, Sticky Notes was updated on November 5, 2026 and BizStickies on October 31, 2026.

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