Steno paper vs X Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steno paper
This app provides a digital notebook for quick and easy handwriting notes. It offers various color pencils, an eraser, and options to create, open, save, and clear your notes.
- Handwriting notes
- Color pencils
- Eraser tool
- New note creation
- Save and open notes
- Clear notes
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A handwriting notes book that make you take notes easily and quickly. Ten kinds of color pencil. Functions: New, Open, Save, Eraser, Clear.
X Widget
Personalize your iOS 14 home screen with custom widgets. Choose from various sizes and styles, and tailor fonts, text, and background colors to match your aesthetic.
- Customizable widgets
- Photo widgets
- Slideshow widgets
- Text widgets
- Date and time widgets
- Font and color customization
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X Widget X Widget lets you create custom and personalized widgets for your iOS 14 home screen. X Widget app features a variety of small, medium, and large widgets for functions like Photo, Photo Slideshow, Custom Text, Date, Time. Each one can be customized to your liking through choices of font, text color, and background color. -- Set up a Widget 1. Open the X Widget App. 2. Choose whether you want to make a Small Widget, Medium Widget, or Large Widget. 3. Select the widget style of your choice. 4. Design the widget. 5. Add widget to your home screen. -- Add Widget to Your Home Screen Once you’ve designed the iOS 14 home screen widget in the X Widget app, you can head back to your home screen, long-press to enter jiggle mode, then tap the “+” icon in the upper-left corner. Look for X Widget in the list of apps, then choose the size of the widget you created. -- On your iOS 14 home screen, you can use as many widgets from X Widget as you’d like. Once you add the X Widget size to your home screen, long-press, choose “Edit Widget” and choose the “Widget” option to pick from the multiple designs you created in the X Widget app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: X Widget at 67% against Steno paper's 0%. X Widget also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Steno paper's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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
Steno paper is free to download; X Widget costs $0.99 up front. Steno paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. X Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
X Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Steno paper's written reviews are positive against 67% of X Widget's.
Steno paper ships an update every 2 months, X Widget every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steno paper | X Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丽娜 夏 | 雪 赵 |
Customer experience
Steno paper
X Widget
In-app purchases
Steno paper
- You will pay to remove ads.$0.99
X Widget
No in-app purchases
