Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
Note Widget +4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus Note Widget +: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasNote Widget +
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings)4.4 (438 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12438 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.8
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconYuri Nesh

Customer experience

Doodle notes and write ideas

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive25.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative67.2%

Note Widget +

All ratings438 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative10.7%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative14.6%

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

4 purchases

Doodle notes and write ideas

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly plan$7.997 Days
  • Annual plan3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Lifetime plan$49.99
3 purchases

Note Widget +

Subscriptions3
  • Happy Club, monthly$2.991 Month
  • Happy Club, 6 month$14.996 Months
  • Happy Club, Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Doodle notes and write ideas free?
Doodle notes and write ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note Widget + free?
Note Widget + is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or Note Widget +?
Note Widget + is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Note Widget + averages 4.4 from 438 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or Note Widget + have ads?
Both Doodle notes and write ideas and Note Widget + show ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or Note Widget +?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and Note Widget + monthly. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on September 21, 2026 and Note Widget + on September 19, 2026.

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