Comparison

Simple Notes Widget vs NoteWorthy

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

NoteWorthy

Features
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Notes that think for themselves - and never phone home. NoteWorthy writes your titles, summarizes your notes, cleans up your formatting and files everything into the right place. All of it runs on your iPhone. There is no account to create, no server to trust, and no internet connection required - because the app makes no network requests at all. WRITE Rich text with real Markdown underneath. Checkboxes, headings, bold and italic, tables, and images. Pick from six paper colors. Scan text straight out of a photo. LET IT ORGANIZE Every note gets a title and lands in Tasks, Ideas, Info or Personal on its own. Make your own labels and pin the ones you use to the tab bar. One tap on AI Organize tidies the whole library - and running it twice changes nothing, because filing reads what's already stored rather than asking a model to guess again. AI FORMAT AND AI SUMMARIZE Jot something messily and let it become a proper structured note - lists, checkboxes, headings - with your wording untouched. Or pull a long note down to a sentence or two. Preview both before anything is applied. EVERYWHERE YOU ALREADY ARE Add to NoteWorthy from any share sheet, including Safari selections. Five Shortcuts actions for Siri, the Action button and automations - including Summarize and Format, which work on text from any app. Widgets in four sizes, with checkboxes you can tick without opening the app. Spotlight finds your notes. JOINED UP Dates become calendar events. People link to your contacts. Addresses open in Maps. Set a reminder before a deadline. YOURS ALONE Lock the app with Face ID. Notes are written to disk with file protection. Export any note as Markdown and take it with you. Universal for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with sticky notes for your desktop. Note: on-device intelligence needs an Apple Intelligence-capable device. Elsewhere NoteWorthy falls back to fast built-in heuristics and works exactly as well for writing, filing and search.

Screenshots

Simple Notes Widget4 screens
NoteWorthy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NoteWorthy at every 2 weeks against Simple Notes Widget's every 2 months. Simple Notes Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Notes Widget ships an update every 2 months, NoteWorthy every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Simple Notes Widget versus NoteWorthy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Notes WidgetNoteWorthy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB267 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQvyshift LLCSuman Hansada

In-app purchases

None

Simple Notes Widget

No in-app purchases

None

NoteWorthy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Notes Widget free?
Simple Notes Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoteWorthy free?
NoteWorthy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Notes Widget or NoteWorthy have ads?
Neither Simple Notes Widget nor NoteWorthy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Notes Widget or NoteWorthy?
Simple Notes Widget ships an update every 2 months, and NoteWorthy every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simple Notes Widget was updated on October 9, 2026 and NoteWorthy on September 28, 2026.

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