Sticky Notea vs Shortboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sticky Notea
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Sticky Notea is a lightweight, thoughtfully designed place for the words you want to keep close. When an idea arrives, you shouldn't have to build a system before writing it down. Open the app, start typing, and your thought becomes a note you can see, revisit, and arrange with ease. Use it for a quick reminder, today's to-do list, a coffee recipe, a travel plan, a line of writing, or any small detail worth keeping. Designed for everyday notes: • Multiple ways to view Move between Standard List, Compact List, and Card View. Scan many notes at once, or browse them like paper notes laid out in front of you. • Simple organization Keep things clear with groups, search, pinned notes, favorites, and colors—without turning your notes into a complicated filing system. • Beautiful note images Turn a note into a polished, paper-inspired image for sharing ideas, lists, announcements, and quote cards, or save it directly to Photos. • Make it feel like yours Choose from paper colors, themes, layouts, and display options, with full Dark Mode support. A clean interface, gentle colors, and subtle motion make writing and organizing feel calm and natural. • Rich text, kept simple Use headings, lists, checklists, quotes, and bold text when you need more structure. Capture one line in a moment, or shape a longer thought at your own pace. • Local backup Export and restore your notes manually whenever you want to keep a copy or move them to another device. • App lock Protect personal notes with your device passcode or biometrics. Sticky Notea stays focused on writing, arranging, and seeing your notes clearly. It is simply a small piece of paper, ready whenever an idea finds you.
Shortboard
Create custom shortcut buttons on your Home and Lock Screens. Launch apps, shortcuts, or App Shortcuts directly from a widget with a single tap. Personalize the look with various styles, icons, and colors.
- Customizable shortcut widgets
- Home and Lock Screen support
- App and Shortcut launching
- Icon and color customization
- Multiple widget sizes
- Transparent widget option
- Shortcuts app integration
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Tap a tile, and it just runs. Shortboard turns your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets into boards of shortcut buttons. Every tile runs a shortcut, an app or an App Shortcut right in place, and the Shortcuts app never comes forward. Pick a style, choose your shortcuts in Edit Widget, and give each one an icon that makes sense. The things you do every day, one tap each. BOARDS FOR EVERY SIZE • Each board is made for one widget size: Small (up to 20 slots), Medium (40), Large (50) or Extra Large (64). • Add slots and the tiles get smaller. The rows arrange themselves. • Shortcuts, apps and App Shortcuts sit side by side on the same board. • Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, pick a board and choose your shortcuts. They fill the slots in order. MAKE IT YOURS • Six styles: Cloud, Pastel, Neon, Mono, Candy and Ink. Start from a look in Discover, or from a blank board. • Light, dark, or matching your system. • Go transparent and your wallpaper shows through, or pick a colored background. • Shortboard · Liquid Glass puts any board on a frosted glass widget. • Give any slot its own icon, glyph color and tile color. Fine-tune the font, tile shape, icon size and spacing. • Preview transparent boards on your own wallpaper before they go on your Home Screen. ICONS THAT MAKE SENSE • Shortcuts reach a widget without icons. Give each one a symbol, an emoji, a photo or an app's icon, matched by its name. • Name a shortcut after an app in your library, and it wears that app's icon automatically. • Keep a library of your apps with their real icons, plus dark icons for dark boards. • Bring your apps in fast: import the apps on your iPhone from iOS's app usage log, share an app's App Store page to Shortboard, search the App Store, pick from popular apps, or bring over your apps from WidgetLoft. LOCK SCREEN • A wide board fits up to eight shortcuts, in one or two rows. • A round button holds one shortcut or four. • Lock Screen boards are free and unlimited. SHORTCUTS AUTOMATION • Shortboard adds its own actions to the Shortcuts app: Create Board, Update Board, Find Boards, Delete Board, Set Shortcut Icon and Remove Shortcut Icon. • Run them from an automation, and your boards and widgets update on their own. EASY FROM THE FIRST TAP • An animated welcome and short tours on the real screens show you around. • Step-by-step guides for everything Shortboard can do, in Settings → How it works. • Available in nearly 40 languages. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no ads. • Your boards, icons and settings stay on your device. • Only app names and App Store IDs go to Apple, to fetch icons. • Purchases and Pro screen visits go to our purchase service under a random ID. • The app usage log is read on your iPhone and never uploaded. FREE AND PRO • Free: 2 Home Screen boards with up to 8 slots each. Lock Screen boards and the app library are free and unlimited. • Shortboard Pro unlocks unlimited Home Screen boards and every slot each size allows, up to 64 shortcuts on one board. • Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Pay once, keep it forever. Questions or ideas? Write to infokoksoft@gmail.com Website: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard Terms of Use: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://mucahitk.com/shortboard/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sticky Notea at none against Shortboard's 2. Sticky Notea also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). Shortboard's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Shortboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sticky Notea asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sticky Notea ships an update every 2 weeks, Shortboard daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sticky Notea | Shortboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 镓聪 杨 | Mucahit KOKDEMIR |
In-app purchases
Sticky Notea
No in-app purchases
Shortboard
- Shortboard Pro (Lifetime)$4.99
- Shortboard Pro (Lifetime)$9.99





