Cheatsheet vs Finishing the Hat
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/
Finishing the Hat
This app offers a unique to-do list experience designed to mimic physical sticky notes on a whiteboard. It features an Eisenhower matrix, color-coded notes, timers, and seamless syncing across Apple devices, helping users manage tasks and improve organization.
- Eisenhower-matrix based grid
- Color-categorized sticky notes
- Live timers and completion dynamics
- Cross-device syncing (iPhone, iPad, macOS)
- Multiple boards for work/life balance
- Robust log and recurring task features
- Email offloading of tasks
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What do you do when the most precious girl in the world keeps downloading to-do and task-management apps, only to fall back on her physical sticky notes notes on a white board, which she can't bring with her when she travels (and she's always traveling)? You make her a to-do app of her very own, trying to capture the feel of that white board, crumpling the notes to toss them in a jar, make the iPhone, iPad, and macOS versions all talk seamlessly and work seamlessly so she doesn't feel like she's losing flow, and throw in as many bells and whistles you think will feed her brain as you can come up with. So you end up with an Eisenhower-matrix based grid, the way she likes it (important, not-important, urgent, not-urgent), with color categorized sticky notes, estimated time to completion, live timers, a satisfying crumpling dynamic for completion, a 'next session' or 'daily tasks' line, a running total of your estimated tasks and time (both for your entire board and your lineup), the option to add multiple boards if you want to have a work/life balance, space for extra info on the back of the sticky notes, the ability to offload to-do items via email to someone else (like me) to get them out of your brain, a robust log feature to see what you've done each day, strong recurring logic so you can have certain to-do items come back, and so much more. And, the feature set will continue to improve. As she uses it and finds ways to better organize her flow, or to maximize her efficiency, or learns new techniques from the constant pipeline of time-management and ADHD books she's reading, the app will iterate and grow. Just like her. Just like our love. This is a to-do list. It's also a love letter. For the brain I love more than anything in the entire world. If your brain is anything like hers (you could only be so lucky), hopefully it will prove useful to you too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Finishing the Hat at none against Cheatsheet's 9. Finishing the Hat also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Cheatsheet's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Cheatsheet sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Finishing the Hat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Finishing the Hat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cheatsheet has 1.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cheatsheet ships an update every 2 weeks, Finishing the Hat every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Cheatsheet | Finishing the Hat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overdesigned, LLC | Brendan McGuigan |
Customer experience
Cheatsheet
Finishing the Hat
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.)
Finishing the Hat
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
Finishing the Hat
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Cheatsheet free?
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