Comparison

Useful Lock Screen Memo vs Sticky Notes · Baro

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

Head to head
About

Useful Lock Screen Memo

Features
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Keep what matters in sight, right on your Lock Screen. Useful Lock Screen Memo is a notes and reminders app that lets you check important notes and plans directly from your Lock Screen. Use Live Activities and widgets to display shopping lists, today’s tasks, things you need to remember and schedules you check often. 【Key features】 ■ Lock Screen notes Save a note to display it in a Live Activity and check it quickly from your Lock Screen. You can also adjust the text size and display color. ■ Reminder notifications Choose a date and time to receive the note text as a notification. You can also repeat reminders on selected days of the week. ■ Flexible advance alerts In addition to the scheduled time, enable any alerts you need: 3 days, 2 days, 1 day, 12 hours, 6 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 3 minutes or 1 minute beforehand. Use shared default settings or choose advance alerts individually for each reminder. ■ Manage multiple reminders See your saved reminders in a vertical list. If a notification cannot be scheduled, the app clearly marks it with a warning or an error. ■ Note and reminder history Previous Lock Screen notes and completed reminders are saved in history. Delete items you no longer need by swiping or pressing and holding. ■ Notification sound selection Choose from multiple built-in sounds to suit each occasion. ■ Lock Screen widget Add the widget to check a note or quickly open the app from your Lock Screen. 【Recommended for anyone who wants to】 ・Display a shopping list on your Lock Screen ・Avoid forgetting belongings or deadlines ・Check work or study plans frequently ・Receive several alerts for an important event ・Keep simple notes and reminders together in one app ・Check a note without opening the app 【Pricing】 All features are free. The app displays ads. With the optional one-time “Remove Ads” purchase, you can hide all ads. Even without “Remove Ads”, there are no feature restrictions. 【Before using the app】 ※ Live Activities and notifications must be allowed in your device settings, and the widget must be added to your Lock Screen. ※ The display duration and update timing of Live Activities may vary depending on iOS system conditions. ※ Requires iOS 26 or later. Created by katapu.net

About

Sticky Notes · Baro

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■ Five notes. Five widgets. No list to scroll. This is not a notes app with a widget bolted on. It is five fixed slots, and each slot is its own Home Screen widget. Slot 3 is always slot 3's widget — place it once and it stays that note forever. Tap the widget and you land in that note with the keyboard already up and the caret at the end. No list, no search, no "which one was that". ------------------------------- ● The one thing it does ------------------------------- • Five numbered tiles, each in its own shade of a single colour, so you learn them by position and tone instead of reading them. • Every tile is a widget. Put slot 1 on your Home Screen, slot 4 on your Lock Screen, or all five. • Tapping a widget opens that note directly. You are never shown a list on the way. • Nothing to configure. The widget you add IS that slot — you pick the number in the gallery and it is bound there for good. There is no setup sheet to get wrong. ------------------------------- ● Nothing to save, nothing to lose ------------------------------- 1) There is no Save button Every keystroke is written to your device as you type. Close the app mid-word and the word is still there. 2) The widget keeps up The tile updates as you close the editor, not on some later refresh of its own. 3) Clearing is not deleting Clearing a slot empties the text and keeps the slot, so the widget you placed keeps working. A single-tap Undo holds the text for a few seconds in case you did not mean it. 4) Nothing is ever renumbered Slot 4 is slot 4 even when slots 1 to 3 are empty. A binding never shifts under you. 5) Take a copy out One tap shares all five notes as plain text, so you are never locked in. ------------------------------- ● Private by design ------------------------------- • Zero network code. Nothing leaves this phone, ever — check it in airplane mode. • Your notes are stored on this device only. • No account, no login, no sign-up. Privacy label: Data Not Collected. • Zero analytics. Zero telemetry. Zero third-party SDKs. • No ads. No subscriptions. • Zero notifications — the app never interrupts you. • No system permission is requested at all: no camera, microphone, location, contacts, or photos. ------------------------------- ● Built to be read and tapped ------------------------------- • Body text starts at 24pt and every control is at least 64 × 64 pt. • High-contrast type on an AMOLED-friendly black background. • Single taps only. No swipes, no long-presses, no hidden gestures inside the app. • Six languages, right-to-left included: English, 한국어, 日本語, Deutsch, Français, العربية. ------------------------------- ● Good for ------------------------------- • The shopping list you want to read without unlocking • A door code, a wifi password, a parking level • Today's three things • A phrase you are trying to remember in another language • Anything you would otherwise text to yourself ------------------------------- ● Five slots, on purpose ------------------------------- Five notes, five widgets, no menus. The fixed count is what removes the list, the folders, the search field and the "where did I put it" — and it is what lets one tap on a tile be the whole interface. ------------------------------- ● The Baro promise ------------------------------- Sticky Notes is part of Baro — lightweight tools that respect your data, your battery, and your time. "The tools you reach for first." The widgets require iOS 16 or later. The app itself runs on iOS 13 and later and works exactly the same, with or without a widget placed.

Screenshots

Useful Lock Screen Memo4 screens
Sticky Notes · Baro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sticky Notes · Baro at none against Useful Lock Screen Memo's 1. Sticky Notes · Baro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price 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

Both are free to download. Useful Lock Screen Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sticky Notes · Baro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Useful Lock Screen Memo ships an update weekly, Sticky Notes · Baro every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Useful Lock Screen Memo versus Sticky Notes · Baro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUseful Lock Screen MemoSticky Notes · Baro
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkatapu.netEuiseok Kim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Useful Lock Screen Memo

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$5.99
None

Sticky Notes · Baro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Useful Lock Screen Memo free?
Useful Lock Screen Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sticky Notes · Baro free?
Sticky Notes · Baro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Useful Lock Screen Memo or Sticky Notes · Baro have ads?
Useful Lock Screen Memo shows ads; Sticky Notes · Baro does not.
Which is updated more often, Useful Lock Screen Memo or Sticky Notes · Baro?
Useful Lock Screen Memo ships an update weekly, and Sticky Notes · Baro every 2 days. Most recently, Useful Lock Screen Memo was updated on November 9, 2026 and Sticky Notes · Baro on November 6, 2026.

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