Comparison

Lock Screen Memo vs Peel

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

Head to head
About

Lock Screen Memo

Display a personalized note directly on your Lock Screen with customizable text, colors, fonts, and even photos. Keep important reminders, affirmations, or checklists visible at a glance without opening any apps. Your data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen widget for notes
  • Customizable text, color, and font
  • Add photos to memos
  • 70+ designs and fonts
  • Private and device-based storage
  • Apple Shortcut integration
Features
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Put the note you need where you see it most: your Lock Screen. LockScreenMemo lets you create a personal memo and show it in a Lock Screen widget. Keep a reminder, daily focus, study phrase, affirmation, or short checklist in view without opening another app. ■ Create a memo that fits you Type a memo and adjust its color, font, size, weight, and layout. Build a memo card that fits your Lock Screen. ■ 70 designs and varied fonts Choose from 70 memo designs and a multilingual font collection. Keep it clean or make it expressive. ■ Add a photo Add a photo to your memo card and make it more personal. Use it as a photo sticker for a trip, a pet, a mood, or anything you want to see every day. ■ Check it every day See your custom memo at a glance in the Lock Screen widget. Refresh it from the app or with the included Apple Shortcut action whenever you need. ■ Private on your device No account is required. Memo text, photos, and design settings stay on your device and are shared only with the app's widget extension. Make quick reminders, daily intentions, study prompts, short checklists, affirmations, and the one thing you do not want to forget feel like yours. Terms of Use: https://gist.github.com/boogios/68752aa1deafbff75019be1e40cbc362

About

Peel

Keep important thoughts visible with sticky notes that appear on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Quickly create notes and checklists with templates, and customize their appearance. Syncs across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen widgets for notes
  • Checklist completion without unlocking
  • Apple Watch sync
  • 21 pre-made templates
  • Customizable appearance
  • Drawing on notes
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Some thoughts are too important to bury in a notes app you never open. Peel puts them on sticky notes that live everywhere you look — your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your wrist, your Mac. Write it once, see it until it's done. THE NOTE THAT CHECKS ITSELF OFF Tap an item on a widget and it's done — no unlocking, no opening the app. Pin a checklist to your Lock Screen and cross things off from there. It even lands on your Apple Watch the moment you write it. FAST ENOUGH TO CATCH EVERY THOUGHT • A note or checklist in seconds, from the app, a widget, the Share Sheet, or Siri • 21 ready-made templates — groceries, packing, meetings, workouts, habits • Write "dinner tomorrow at 7" and Peel offers a reminder or a calendar event. Nothing slips. TOO PRETTY TO IGNORE • 22 hand-tuned colors, custom shades, fonts, patterns and photo backgrounds • Draw on notes with Apple Pencil or your finger • A board that feels alive — satisfying check-offs, a daily streak, and confetti when you finish a list EVERYWHERE, IN SYNC iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — one board, synced instantly through your own iCloud. Check something off on your watch and it's done on your phone before you lower your arm. YOURS, PRIVATELY No account. No ads. No analytics. We can't read your notes — they live on your device and in your iCloud, period. START FREE The first 7 notes are free, forever. Peel Premium unlocks unlimited notes, every color and all widgets — from $1.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, or one payment for lifetime access. Clear mind. Done list. Get Peel.

Screenshots

Lock Screen Memo3 screens
Peel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Peel at 100% against Lock Screen Memo's 50%. Peel also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Lock Screen Memo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.69 per month and Peel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lock Screen Memo versus Peel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Screen MemoPeel
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBOOGIOS_STUDIORivon Dev LLC

Customer experience

Lock Screen Memo

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Peel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Lock Screen Memo

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.691 Month
  • Pro Yearly$31.491 Year
3 purchases

Peel

Subscriptions2
  • Peel Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Peel Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Peel Premium — Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Lock Screen Memo free?
Lock Screen Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Peel free?
Peel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lock Screen Memo or Peel have ads?
Neither Lock Screen Memo nor Peel shows ads.

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