Comparison

Simple Notes Widget vs Fire Notes

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

Head to head
About

Simple Notes Widget

Features
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Simple Notes Widget is the fastest way to keep your lists where you can see them โ€” on your home screen, your desktop, and every device you own. WIDGET FIRST Put a page of notes right on your iPhone or iPad home screen, or your Mac desktop. Check things off directly in the widget โ€” no need to open the app โ€” and flip between pages with the widget's arrows. PAGES, NOT PILES Organize notes into simple pages: Groceries, To-Do, Trip, Ideas. Reorder with a drag. Rename or add pages anytime. CHECK IT OFF Tap the circle to mark a note done and it gets a clean strikethrough. Completed notes can sink to the bottom automatically. REMINDERS THAT REPEAT Give any note a reminder โ€” one-time, or repeating daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Tapping the notification opens the note. PRIORITIES Flag notes low, normal, or high priority with a colored dot. EVERYWHERE WITH ICLOUD Your notes sync automatically between iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your private iCloud account. No sign-ups, no accounts โ€” and your notes are never visible to us. SAFETY NET Deleted notes wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days, so an accidental swipe never costs you a list. Simple Notes Widget is free, with no ads and no tracking.

About

Fire Notes

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Fire Notes is a private notebook for writing, scanning paper, and dictating by voice - with one unusual feature: you can burn a note. Real fire, rendered live on your screen - the paper catches, curls, chars and falls away as ash. When the flame goes out, the note is gone. It's oddly satisfying. It's also the point. WRITE ANYTHING โ€ข A fast, beautiful editor with rich text, checklists, headings and highlights โ€ข Choose your paper and your handwriting โ€” from clean type to a looping script โ€ข Photos, shelves and pinned notes on a board you can rearrange by hand โ€ข Everything stays searchable, right up until you let it go LET IT GO โ€ข Burn a note in a moment, or hold for the full cinematic ceremony โ€ข Blow on the microphone to light the flame โ€” yes, really โ€ข Burn-after timers: write something tonight, let it release itself tomorrow โ€ข Every burn leaves an ember in Ashes โ€” proof something was released, without the words SCAN YOUR PAPER โ€ข Point the camera at a receipt, bill or letter โ€” Fire Notes finds the edges, straightens the page and files it โ€ข Every scan is read on your device, so the words inside are searchable. Find a receipt by what it says, not by what you named it โ€ข Scans live in their own shelves โ€” Receipts, Bills, Documents โ€” separate from your notes โ€ข And when a document has done its job, shred it. The same fire, for paper you're finished with PRIVATE BY DESIGN โ€ข Your notes and your scans live on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers โ€ข Face ID app lock, plus a separate lock for the notes that matter most โ€ข No account. No tracking. No ads. ALSO IN THE BOX โ€ข Dictate a note out loud with on-device speech recognition โ€ข On-device AI to fix, rewrite or reshape what you wrote โ€” nothing is sent away โ€ข Export a note as text or PDF when you decide to keep it after all FIRE NOTES+ A one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. It unlocks the document scanner, voice dictation, the AI writing tools and clean, watermark-free exports. Buy it once and it's yours, on every device you sign in with. The notebook itself stays free. Write as much as you like. Burn as much as you like. Write it down. Let it go.

Screenshots

Simple Notes Widget4 screens
Fire Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Notes Widget at none against Fire Notes's 1. Simple Notes Widget also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Fire Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Notes Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Simple Notes Widget versus Fire Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Notes WidgetFire Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQvyshift LLCIvan Trendafilovski

In-app purchases

None

Simple Notes Widget

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Fire Notes

One-time1
  • Fire Notes+ Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Simple Notes Widget free?
Simple Notes Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fire Notes free?
Fire Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Notes Widget or Fire Notes have ads?
Neither Simple Notes Widget nor Fire Notes shows ads.

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