Cheatsheet vs WeeNote Notes and Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cheatsheet
Quickly store and access important information like hotel room numbers or license plates via widgets, a custom keyboard, or your Apple Watch. This app simplifies recalling details without needing to unlock your phone.
- Quick recall memos
- Widget access
- Custom keyboard integration
- Apple Watch app
- Search functionality
- Organize with folders
- Format notes
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Cheatsheet is for the little things you never remember: hotel rooms, license plates, luggage combination, ID numbers. Write them down in Cheatsheet and then refer to them anytime in a Widget or paste them anywhere with the Custom Keyboard. No more fumbling to unlock your phone and find your notes app; Cheatsheet is as easy as looking at your lock screen, pulling up the keyboard, or glancing at your Apple Watch. App Features: • Simple UI for adding and managing your cheats. • Over 450 icons to help you recognize what you’re looking for. • Quickly copy a cheat by tapping-and-holding on a row. • Search for your cheats, both in the app and in Spotlight. • Use Shortcuts or Siri to “add notes to Cheatsheet” or “find notes in Cheatsheet”. • Organize your cheats with folders and titles. • Format your notes with bold, italics, lists, links, and more. • Protect your cheats with Passcode Lock (Pro feature). • Sync between all your iOS devices via iCloud (Pro feature). Widgets: • Multiple sizes, styles, and colors. • Tap a cheat to open it. Tap the “+” button to add a cheat in the app. • Cheatsheet also has a “Today widget” with options to copy or delete cheats. Apple Watch: • Add, edit, and delete cheats right from your wrist. • Complications show your top cheat (or several cheats) right on your watch face. • Syncs to your iPhone via iCloud (Pro feature). Keyboard Extension: • Shows up to 50 cheats, which you can insert anywhere you can use a custom keyboard. • Includes space, delete, and return keys to help with simple edits. Advanced Features: • Automate your workflows with Shortcuts. • Action extension: send text or URLs to Cheatsheet from any app via the share sheet. • Customize the Cheatsheet widget’s appearance and behavior to suit your needs. • Add or open notes from Control Center (iOS 18 required). • URL scheme for adding a cheat: cheatsheet://add?text=everything%20is%20awesome. Cheatsheet Pro: • Remove limits on the widget, keyboard, and Watch app. • Protect your cheats with Passcode Lock. • Organize your cheats with folders. • Sync your cheats between your devices with iCloud. • Cheatsheet Pro is a simple, annual subscription; there is a one-time purchase option for customers who want to avoid subscriptions. Cheatsheet for Mac is sold separately. • Purchases help support the ongoing development of Cheatsheet — this app is beloved by its users and has over 10 years of active development by a single indie developer, so your support is truly appreciated! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
WeeNote Notes and Widget
Organize your thoughts with colorful, customizable sticky notes and widgets. Add notes, drawings, and reminders directly to your home screen. Sync across devices and protect your data with password protection.
- Customizable color sticky notes
- Home screen widgets
- Handwritten notes and drawings
- Timed reminders and notifications
- Password protection for notes
- Cross-device synchronization
- Categorization with sub-folders
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WeeNote is a color sticky notes memo app with a widget for the home screen that can sync with your other devices. With WeeNote you will be able to create color note stickies and reminders, add notes to your home screen, resize notes and customize them to your liking. You will also be able to take handwritten notes and drawings and place the stickies on your home screen. In addition to that, you can set notes transparency and rotation angle to achieve different looks, as well as set your own image as a note background, and use custom fonts for your text. WeeNote sticky notes organizer will let you categorize your notes and keep them in a convenient colored sub folders system. You can keep them in an order that is suitable for your workflow, sort by various criteria, or manually drag and drop. Notes can be trashed, moved between folders, looked by a search term, shared as text , drawing or a screenshot. Notes can also serve you as a timed reminders that you can schedule to appear as notifications right when you need them. Protect your notes and folders with a password to keep them private. Online backup and data synchronization feature is available for app subscribers. You will be able to sync notes across multiple devices, and restore your data in case needed. The notes can be shown in a layout setup that will allow you to scroll through your notes in different directions, and view sub folders contents simultaneously. This feature can be useful for storyboarding, visualizing, planning, outlining and so on. The app is available for a period of 7 days to try, after that it will be required to purchase your copy to continue using WeeNote. Hope you enjoy WeeNote as much as we enjoyed working on it, and feel welcome to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions, or need technical support. Here is how to put sticky notes on your home screen: Go to your home screen, tap and hold a free space, tap + button, select WeeNote, add the widget. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weenoteapp.blogspot.com/p/weenote-privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cheatsheet at 81% against WeeNote Notes and Widget's 20%. Cheatsheet also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 11). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Cheatsheet sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and WeeNote Notes and Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cheatsheet holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cheatsheet has 1.9K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Cheatsheet's written reviews are positive against 20% of WeeNote Notes and Widget's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cheatsheet | WeeNote Notes and Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better | 3.6 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overdesigned, LLC | Alina Vetrov |
Customer experience
Cheatsheet
WeeNote Notes and Widget
Bugs and requests
Cheatsheet
Reported bugs
3 issues- Entries disappearing from widget
- Syncing problems between devices
- Crashes on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to sort/reorder entries
- Improve sync reliability
- Implement password protection
- Allow adding images/attachments to entries
- Expand customization options (colors, icons, etc.)
WeeNote Notes and Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cheatsheet
- Cheatsheet Pro$0.991 Month
- Cheatsheet Pro$1.991 Month
- Cheatsheet Pro$4.991 Year
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- Cheatsheet Pro14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Small Tip$2.99
- Medium Tip$5.99
- Big Tip$9.99
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- Legacy$19.99
- Cheatsheet Pro (Lifetime)$79.99
WeeNote Notes and Widget
- WeeNote Pro Sync$14.991 Year
- WeeNote Basic$4.99
Questions
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