Colored Note vs Speed Dial Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colored Note
Capture your thoughts, ideas, and experiences with a versatile diary and notepad. Add photos, color-code entries, and organize with tags for easy retrieval. Share your notes with friends or keep them private with passcode protection.
- Add photos to notes
- Color-code notes for organization
- Assign tags for searching
- Sort notes as desired
- Share notes with friends
- Secure notes with a passcode
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Color Note is a diary and notepad just for everyone! Record interesting thoughts, inspires ideas, inspirational quotes, recent experience, write notes about life, share your thoughts and mood with your friends. Or just write memos. PHOTOS You can add some images to your note. COLORS You can mark your note with a color. The color can be used for searching. TAGS You can assign one or more tags to a note. The tags can be used for searching. ORGANIZE Sort your note as you want. SHARE YOUR NOTE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Send it to your friends or publish in social networks! SAFETY You can restrict access to your notes with a passcode. AND You can delete a note by swiping it to the left.
Speed Dial Widgets
Create custom widgets for your home screen to quickly access your favorite contacts. Choose from different layouts and communication methods like phone calls, messages, or video calls. Personalize widgets with nicknames and emojis for faster, more convenient connections.
- Customizable contact widgets
- Multiple layout options
- Direct calls (Phone, FaceTime)
- Direct messaging (Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram)
- Nickname and emoji support
- Accidental call prevention
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Phone Home Widgets is a completely free app that lets you create widgets to quickly connect with your favorite contacts. - Choose between three layouts to focus on your contacts' photos, or their names. - Pick your preferred call method: Phone, FaceTime or FaceTime Audio. - Or choose to launch Messages, WhatsApp or Telegram. - Use a nickname or alternative name on your widget. Add some emojis! - Add as many widgets as you can fit on your Home Screen, for free! - Confirm the call* after tapping on the widget to avoid accidental calls. *Required by the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Colored Note at weekly against Speed Dial Widgets's every 4 months. Colored Note also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (5K vs 185). Speed Dial Widgets's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 54%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Colored Note holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colored Note has 5K ratings behind it against 185, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Colored Note's written reviews are positive against 78% of Speed Dial Widgets's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Colored Note ships an update weekly, Speed Dial Widgets every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Note | Speed Dial Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better | 4.4 (185 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 185 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Veniamin Gribkov | Emilio Pelaez |
Customer experience
Colored Note
Speed Dial Widgets
Bugs and requests
Colored Note
Reported bugs
3 issues- Notes disappearing or not saving properly
- Cursor jumping or text selection issues
- Glitches with recent app updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add checklist/to-do list functionality
- Improve note sorting and search options
- Implement password protection or biometric security
- Provide more font and customization options
Speed Dial Widgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Colored Note
No in-app purchases
Speed Dial Widgets
No in-app purchases
Questions
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