Comparison

Doodle notes and write ideas vs Sticky Notes Widgets

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

Sticky Notes Widgets

Create and edit notes and drawings to display as widgets on your home and lock screens. Supports Apple Pencil, finger drawing, and typing. Customize appearance and combine text with drawings for versatile use.

Highlights
  • Create notes and drawings
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Apple Pencil and finger drawing
  • Text and drawing combination
  • Customizable backgrounds and colors
  • Zoom for detail
  • Share as image or text
Features
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Quickly create & edit notes and drawings to display as widgets on your home screen & lock screen. Draw with Apple Pencil, your finger, or use the keyboard to type. Customize backgrounds, colors, and fonts. Zoom in on drawings for finer details. Combine text and drawing on the same note. Share your notes as images or text. Import/export your notes to edit between multiple devices. Great for quick reminders, todo lists, brainstorming, sketching, home screen aesthetics or just quickly jotting anything down! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Doodle notes and write ideas4 screens
Sticky Notes Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sticky Notes Widgets at 75% against Doodle notes and write ideas's 25%. Sticky Notes Widgets also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Doodle notes and write ideas's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Sticky Notes Widgets sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sticky Notes Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Notes Widgets has 506 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Doodle notes and write ideas's written reviews are positive against 75% of Sticky Notes Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, Sticky Notes Widgets every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Doodle notes and write ideas versus Sticky Notes Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle notes and write ideasSticky Notes Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings)4.6 (506 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews74.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12506 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaria GasconNeat Software Co.

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%

Sticky Notes Widgets

All ratings506 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive74.6%
Neutral12.7%
Negative12.7%

Bugs and requests

Doodle notes and write ideas

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Sticky Notes Widgets

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Widgets not updating after note edits
  • Notes randomly overwritten with duplicates of other notes
  • Widget display freezing or not connecting
  • Corrupted .json backup files on import
  • Apple Pencil glitches during writing
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  • Text disappears when switching between typing and handwriting modes
  • Widgets not displaying saved notes
  • App crashes on older iOS versions
  • Sync between iPad and iPhone not working automatically
  • Extra large widget quality degradation

Requested features

16 requests
  • iCloud sync across all devices
  • Transparent background option
  • Checkbox/bullet point lists with toggle functionality
  • Text formatting (bold, italic, underline) for selected text
  • Partial text size adjustment (not whole note)
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  • Additional note templates and styles
  • Tape stickers and decorative elements
  • More widget size options
  • Direct widget editing without opening app
  • Lock screen widget support
  • Apple Watch app
  • Mac app support
  • Indent functionality
  • Gradient color options
  • Full-screen editing mode
  • Ability to mix handwriting and typing on same note

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
2 purchases

Sticky Notes Widgets

One-time2
  • Jot Pro: Lifetime$7.99
  • Jot Pro: Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Doodle notes and write ideas free?
Doodle notes and write ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sticky Notes Widgets free?
Sticky Notes Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Doodle notes and write ideas or Sticky Notes Widgets?
Sticky Notes Widgets is rated higher. Doodle notes and write ideas averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Sticky Notes Widgets averages 4.6 from 506 ratings.
Do Doodle notes and write ideas or Sticky Notes Widgets have ads?
Doodle notes and write ideas shows ads; Sticky Notes Widgets does not.
Which is updated more often, Doodle notes and write ideas or Sticky Notes Widgets?
Doodle notes and write ideas ships an update every 3 months, and Sticky Notes Widgets every 2 weeks. Most recently, Doodle notes and write ideas was updated on October 13, 2026 and Sticky Notes Widgets on October 11, 2026.

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