Comparison

Colored Note vs Remember Basic

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Remember Basic

Personalize your iPhone and iPad home screens with customizable sticky notes. Choose colors, fonts, and frames, and display them as widgets. Send notes to your Apple Watch for quick access and dictation.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable colors and fonts
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Markdown support
  • Optional page titles
  • Standalone Apple Watch use
Features
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Show stickies on iPhone/iPad Home Screen! Customise stickies with colors, fonts and beautiful frames! 【 iPhone / iPad 】 • select text and page color. • change font and text alignment. • add widgets to show on home screen or lock screen! • send text to Apple Watch. (standard version) 【 Apple Watch - only on standard version 】 • enter text directly or transfer from iPhone app. • setup as widgets on watch faces or smart stack. • select text/page color (used in color watch faces*). • dictate on watch and sent the text back to iPhone! • use emojis to design your own watch faces. 【 NOTES 】 • you need to open the app first before adding widgets to home screen. • you can use some Markdown syntax. • every page can have different notes and customisation. • you can add optional title to the page. • Apple Watch version can be used standalone without iPhone. Upgrade to standard version for more pages, iCloud and Apple Watch sync!

Screenshots

Colored Note3 screens
Remember Basic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Colored Note at 5K against Remember Basic's 7. Colored Note also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Colored Note's written reviews are positive against 50% of Remember Basic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Colored Note ships an update every 5 days, Remember Basic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Colored Note versus Remember Basic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColored NoteRemember Basic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5K ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeniamin GribkovVirtual GS

Customer experience

Colored Note

All ratings5,006 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews435 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative35.9%

Remember Basic

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Remember Basic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Colored Note

No in-app purchases

None

Remember Basic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Colored Note free?
Colored Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Remember Basic free?
Remember Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Colored Note or Remember Basic?
Colored Note is rated higher. Colored Note averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while Remember Basic averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Colored Note or Remember Basic have ads?
Neither Colored Note nor Remember Basic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Colored Note or Remember Basic?
Colored Note ships an update every 5 days, and Remember Basic every 10 days. Most recently, Colored Note was updated on September 22, 2026 and Remember Basic on August 24, 2026.

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