Doodle notes and write ideas vs Note Widget +
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doodle notes and write ideas
Capture your thoughts and organize your life with this intuitive notepad app. Create to-do lists, shopping lists, memos, and sketches with a variety of colors and line thicknesses. Save, edit, and share your notes easily.
- Write notes, memos, and messages
- Create shopping and to-do lists
- Scribble, sketch, or draw drafts
- Fifteen color options
- Three line thickness options
- Eraser and undo functionality
- Share or save notes as images
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Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them. Take notes, scribble or sketch a draft, do the grocery list, draw or do whatever you want with this notebook! Write notes, memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check list and to-do lists. It is an easy-to-use note-taking app. This is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps you get all your lists done. Download it and organize your quick notes in this simple notepad. It is perfect for organizing your work ideas as if it were a notebook. And you can you access your notes whenever you want. Anywhere and anytime create notes, to-do lists, shopping list, edit or save a note! Share this app via social media or any other program on your phone. If you liked the app, please rate it. It helps us improve our work. Thank you! Features: • Fifteen colors or markers • Three types of line thickness (thin, medium, thick) • White background • Erase whatever you want with the eraser • Delete the image with the undo-arrow • Share the note or save it in the images gallery https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Note Widget +
Create handwritten notes, dictate voice memos, and write over images. Transform speech into text and schedule reminders. Secure your notes with biometric locks and display them directly on your widget screen.
- Handwritten and text notes
- Write over images
- Dictate notes and record speech
- Transform voice to text
- Schedule reminders
- Password/biometric protection
- Display notes on widget
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HANDWRITTEN AND TEXT NOTES. WRITE OVER AN IMAGE. WRITE WITH YOUR FINGER IN THE MESSENGER. DICTATE NOTES, RECORD SPEECH. TRANSFORM VOICE RECORDINGS INTO PLAIN TEXT. SCHEDULE REMINDERS PROTECT NOTES WITH A PASSWORD, FACE ID, OR TOUCH ID. SHOW NOTES ON THE WIDGET SCREEN. Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Doodle notes and write ideas and Note Widget + both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of Note Widget +'s written reviews are positive against 25% of Doodle notes and write ideas's. Note Widget + also leads on ratings volume (438 vs 12) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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. Doodle notes and write ideas sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Note Widget + sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Doodle notes and write ideas against 4.4 for Note Widget +. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Note Widget + has 438 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of Doodle notes and write ideas's written reviews are positive against 78% of Note Widget +'s.
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, Note Widget + monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doodle notes and write ideas | Note Widget + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 4.4 (438 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.4% of reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 438 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.8 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maria Gascon | Yuri Nesh |
Customer experience
Doodle notes and write ideas
Note Widget +
Bugs and requests
Doodle notes and write ideas
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Note Widget +
Reported bugs
5 issues- App won't let me delete a note
- App will not reload subscription
- App won't stay open
- Blank yellow page issue
- Scrolls back to the top of a note
Requested features
5 requests- Add folder organization
- More than nine categories
- Ability to add tags
- Password protection for notes
- Show full widgets on home screen
In-app purchases
Doodle notes and write ideas
- Weekly plan$7.997 Days
- Annual plan3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Lifetime plan$49.99
Note Widget +
- Happy Club, monthly$2.991 Month
- Happy Club, 6 month$14.996 Months
- Happy Club, Yearly$24.991 Year
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