Sticky Board with Widget vs Simple Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sticky Board with Widget
Quickly jot down notes, reminders, and schedules with customizable sticky notes. Personalize your notes with various colors, backgrounds, and even attach photos. Organize your thoughts efficiently with list or grid views.
- Customizable note colors
- Background image selection
- Photo attachment to notes
- List and grid display options
- Timer function for memos
- Quick and easy note-taking
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Sticky Board is a sticky note app. You can use quickly and easily as if you were writing on a paper sticky note. You can set a timer on the memo and take a picture, so you can use it for various purposes. * * * For people like this * * * Please use it if you want to quickly and easily write down what you want to remember, such as shopping notes, meeting contents, ideas that came up on the train, small schedules and TODO. * * *Features* * * - You can choose the color of the sticky note from 12 types. You can color-code according to the purpose such as "private" and "work", choose your favorite color, and use it freely to your liking. - You can select a background image. We have prepared 6 types of nice background images. There is also a function to set your favorite photo as the background image. - You can also attach a photo to a sticky note. - You can switch between a list display with large vertical sticky notes and a grid display with small sticky notes arranged in a grid pattern with a single tap.
Simple Notepad
This app offers a unique note-taking experience with a three-tab system for memos, remarks, and history. Attach photos to your notes and secure them with a password. Organize your thoughts with folder division for efficient management.
- Three-tab note structure (Memo, Remarks, History)
- Attach images to notes
- Password security lock
- Folder division for organization
- Revision history tracking
- Additional remarks field
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"BestNote" is a memo pad application aimed at the highest. As a characteristic feature of "BestNote", the memo creation page is divided into three tabs. It is "memo" "remarks" "history". "Memo" tab is the same function as normal memo pad. "Remarks" "History" is a feature of this application's commitment. In the "Remarks" tab, there is another character input field in addition to the memo, so you can use it in various ways, such as writing a simple draft when writing a note or using it as a remarks column. In addition, it is also possible to attach images on the "Remarks" tab, and it is possible to use it beyond the frame of Notepad depending on the ingenuity. Although it is the "history" tab, contents written in the "memo" tab are accumulated in the history as the name does. (It will be written to the history when you press save button on memo page) With this function, it is possible to recover promptly even in unforeseen circumstances such as mistakenly editing important information accidentally. In addition to the security lock password function. Various functions such as folder division function to make memo easier to manage are carried. Please try downloading it once by all means. ・Terms of Use https://eeggs.jp/terms-of-use-en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sticky Board with Widget at none against Simple Notepad's 1. Simple Notepad's advantage is ratings volume (2.8K vs 161). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Simple Notepad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Sticky Board with Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sticky Board with Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Notepad has 2.8K ratings behind it against 161, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 68% and 68% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Sticky Board with Widget | Simple Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (161 ratings) — better | 4.6 (2.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 68.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 161 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BUILD LLC | EasterEggs |
Customer experience
Sticky Board with Widget
Simple Notepad
Bugs and requests
Sticky Board with Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Simple Notepad
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch
- Notes disappearing after updates
- Vertical orientation not working
- Unable to recover lost notes
Requested features
5 requests- Option to remove ads
- Ability to sync notes across devices
- More font and formatting options
- Print functionality
- Improved iPad support
In-app purchases
Sticky Board with Widget
No in-app purchases
Simple Notepad
- Premium Plan$3.991 Month
Questions
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