Audio Note Widget vs RegEspresso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Note Widget
Quickly record and play audio notes directly from your home or today screen. Add titles, customize appearance, and access voice memos for reminders or personal messages. Compatible with iOS 14 widgets and supports dark mode.
- Home screen widgets
- Record and play audio notes
- Customizable titles and appearance
- iOS 14 widget compatible
- Dark mode support
- Easy to use interface
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Thanks to this application (and the other Widget apps from PacoLabs), you can now customize the Home screen and the Today view of your device, by adding custom widgets for some specific purposes. From anywhere in your device, you'll have access to your own information and actions. Each Audio Note widget allows to record and play an audio note. This is the quickest way to record and play some voice recordings to remember the things that you might forget. Where did you park? what was the code to open the door? what did you had to remember? You can also have a recorded message of the person you like, always with you. A title can be added, and look can be customized. If necessary, you can hide the record button in the Today view (to avoid any unwanted change). Those Widgets are compatible with the new iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets. The application is really easy to use and is adapted to the fresh look of your device. Dark mode of iOS13 is supported. In Today view: You can add as many widgets as you want and they will be displayed in up to 3 different lists. Those same lists will be available in the Today view and in the application (although it is possible, if you want, to hide some widgets in the Today view). To avoid overloading the Today view, when too many widgets are displayed, an intuitive control will allow you to navigate from one widget to another. Even if the main purpose of the app is to view the widgets in the Today view, it can also be very handy to view them directly in the application (a long press on a widget in the Today view will open it directly in the main application).
RegEspresso
Test regular expressions with ease. Input your regex pattern and source text to see matches highlighted in real-time. A straightforward tool for developers and anyone working with text patterns.
- Real-time regex matching
- On-the-fly highlighting
- Input regex filter
- Input source text
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Simple regular expression tester. Enter your regular expression filter and enter your source text. Highlights matches on the fly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RegEspresso at Free against Audio Note Widget's $0.99. RegEspresso also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
RegEspresso is free to download; Audio Note Widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Audio Note Widget against 4.0 for RegEspresso. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Audio Note Widget ships an update every 6 months, RegEspresso every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Note Widget | RegEspresso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francis Bonnin | Yichen Cao |
Customer experience
Audio Note Widget
RegEspresso
In-app purchases
Audio Note Widget
No in-app purchases
RegEspresso
No in-app purchases
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