Comparison

Fridge vs jotter

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

Head to head
About

Fridge

This app places your notes and to-do lists directly on your phone's lock screen, ensuring you never miss important reminders. You can even check off tasks without unlocking your device, and customize the appearance with various designs and pens.

Highlights
  • Lock screen notes
  • Checklist functionality
  • Customizable designs
  • Home screen widgets
  • Live Activity integration
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Put your shopping list or today's to-dos on your lock screen, and tick items off without unlocking your phone. You write things down and still forget them. Fridge puts the note where you cannot miss it: the first thing you see, every single time you pick up your phone. No app to open, no widget to go hunting for. YOUR LOCK SCREEN IS A FRIDGE DOOR That is the surface households already use for the note that must not be missed. Shopping list. Gym bag. Call the dentist. Stick it there and it does its job on its own. TICK THINGS OFF WITHOUT UNLOCKING Tap a checkbox straight from the lock screen. No Face ID, no app launch, and no losing five minutes to social media on the way in. IT DOES NOT DISAPPEAR The big note is a Live Activity, and iOS ends those after about eight hours. Every app in this category runs into that limit. Fridge ships a lock screen widget that never expires. Add it under your clock (setup shows you how, and checks it is there) and your note is always there. Fridge also re-arms the big note every time you open the app, tick a box or edit a line. In the worst case your note gets smaller. It does not vanish. SHARE A LIST WITH FAMILY Share a note through iCloud and the people you invite can add items and tick them off. Every phone shows the same list, lock screen included. Sharing is free; each person needs Fridge and an iCloud account. Drawings and photos stay on your phone. YOU DECIDE WHAT APPEARS WHERE • Live note, Widget only, or Off, in one tap • Hide it in the Dynamic Island, so taps meant for other apps stop landing here • Widget-only mode keeps it off your Apple Watch entirely • Fridge never sends you a notification. Not one. 264 DESIGNS, BUILT FROM THREE CHOICES Pick a paper, pick a sheet, pick a pen. 24 papers (legal pad yellow, kraft, chalkboard, blueprint, ivory, midnight, espresso) times 11 sheet types (plain, ruled, grid, dotted, legal, taped, magnet, pinned, photo corners, bulldog clip, till roll). That is 264 designs, and with 10 pens over the top, 2,640 looks. Three designs are free; Plus unlocks the rest. IT LOOKS HANDWRITTEN, BECAUSE IT IS DRAWN Checkboxes are inked boxes with a real tick through them, not a system glyph. Finished lines get a struck-through stroke that wobbles the way a pen does. Five of the ten pens are genuine handwriting faces, and every line sits on its own slightly uneven baseline. The same note always draws the same way, on the lock screen, in the widget and in the app. DRAW, AND STICK THINGS ON Pen, marker, pencil, and a proper eraser. Drop in a photo and Fridge lifts the subject out of its background automatically, on your phone. Photos stay pinned where you put them, so drawing on top never drags them around. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN TOO Small, medium and large widgets. The medium and large ones are tickable. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No sign-in. No ads, no tracking: anonymous usage analytics only, and you can switch them off in Settings. Background removal runs on your device. Notes leave your phone only when you share them: a shared note goes through iCloud to the people you invite, and nowhere else. FRIDGE PLUS Try everything free for 7 days with the yearly plan, and cancel before the week ends to pay nothing. Or pay once for lifetime, or subscribe monthly. Plus unlocks all 264 designs, unlimited notes, and removes the small Fridge mark. Everything that makes Fridge work stays free: the lock screen note, the checkboxes, the widgets, sharing, and full control over what appears where. Requires iOS 18. iPhone only. Fridge Plus subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sushilkumar.me/fridge/privacy

About

jotter

Features
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jotter is a notebook for everything you need to remember. Your words look written by hand, and the boxes you write can remind you right on time. Write a line. Tick a box. Turn the page. No setup, no account, no folders. NEVER LOSE A THING YOU WRITE DOWN - Tap the clock on any box and choose when. Write "dentist, friday 10am" and friday at 10 is offered first, then in an hour, this evening, tomorrow morning or the weekend. - Be reminded at the time, or 10 minutes, an hour or a day before. - Tick the box straight from the notification, or ask for an hour more. - Every open box in the notebook on one page, with what's coming up first. - Find any word on any page. A SIMPLE TO DO LIST, ON PAPER - Start a line with [] for a box, a dash for a list, or 1. for numbers. Lists carry on by themselves. - Tap a box to tick it. Cross a line out with one key. - Tear a page out. It waits 30 days in case you want it back. A NOTEBOOK THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS - Fourteen handwriting styles, from a neat everyday hand to flowing cursive, at the size you like. - Light, dusk and night paper. Ruled with a margin, ruled, dot grid, squared or plain. - The soft sound of a pencil as you write, if you'd like it. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF - Your pages sync through your own iCloud, so your iPhone and iPad stay in step. - Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, with boxes you can tick right there. - Ask Siri to "add to jotter", or start a clean page from Control Center. YOURS ALONE - Lock the notebook with Face ID. - No account and no ads. Your pages live on your device and in your own iCloud. SHARE A PAGE, BEAUTIFULLY - Share any page as a picture, torn out along its edge and laid on cloth, linen or ink, sized for a post, a story or a message. - Long pages carry on across a few pictures, never cut off. - Export the whole notebook as a PDF, or as text. FREE, AND JOTTER PRO The notebook is free for good: unlimited pages, boxes and lists, find, widgets, sharing, two handwriting styles, light paper and every ruling. jotter pro adds reminders, iCloud sync, dusk and night paper, twelve more handwriting styles, the Face ID lock and PDF export. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase for a lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://jotterapp.xyz/terms Privacy Policy: https://jotterapp.xyz/privacy

Screenshots

Fridge4 screens
jotter4 screens

Verdict

The call

Fridge and jotter are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Fridge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and jotter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Fridge versus jotter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFridgejotter
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSushil KumarShrenik Choudhary

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fridge

Subscriptions2
  • Fridge Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Fridge Plus Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Fridge Plus Lifetime$49.99
3 purchases

jotter

Subscriptions2
  • jotter pro, a month$4.991 Month
  • jotter pro, a year$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • jotter pro, a lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Fridge free?
Fridge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is jotter free?
jotter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fridge or jotter have ads?
Neither Fridge nor jotter shows ads.

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