Best Sticky Notes Apps

249+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.6 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated November 2026

Looking for free sticky notes apps? 20 of our 249+ tracked titles are free to download — no subscription, no trial. The rest are premium picks worth paying for.

Compare top Sticky Notes Apps (November 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Sticky Notes & Color WidgetSticky Notes & Color WidgetFree4.6★ (6.6K)YesYesNov 2026
2Sticky WidgetsSticky WidgetsFree4.6★ (30K)NoYesNov 2026
3Microsoft OneNoteMicrosoft OneNoteFree4.7★ (1.1M)NoYesNov 2026
4Quicky Sticky NotesQuicky Sticky NotesFree4.6★ (2.7K)NoNoNov 2026
5Google Keep - Notes and listsGoogle Keep - Notes and listsFree4.6★ (29K)NoNoNov 2026
6Sticky Notes WidgetSticky Notes WidgetFree4.7★ (6.6K)NoYesNov 2026
7Sticky Board with WidgetSticky Board with WidgetFree4.8★ (162)YesNoNov 2026
8Sticky Notes: Notepad WidgetSticky Notes: Notepad WidgetFree4.6★ (530)YesYesNov 2026

Top Picks for Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes & Color Widget#1

Sticky Notes & Color Widget by Hive 5 Studio DOO

Simple Note Checklist Reminder
Editor's Choice
🔧 Utilities
4.6😐(6.6K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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Create colorful sticky notes, checklists, and reminders that can be pinned directly to your Home Screen as widgets. Dictate notes with your voice, add photos, and organize them by color. Sync across all your Apple devices using iCloud.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable notes
  • 🚀 Convenient home screen widgets
  • 👍 Helps with organization and memory
  • 👍 Fun and enjoyable to use

Room to Improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription cost
  • 🔍 Limited free features
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 💤 Poor widget functionality
  • 📢 Excessive ads in free version
Sticky Widgets#2

Sticky Widgets by 1881 Digital, LLC

Home & Lock Screen notepad
Strong Contender
🔧 Utilities
4.6😐(30K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Easily add customizable sticky notes to your home and lock screens. Sync notes across devices with iCloud and integrate with Siri and Shortcuts. Unlock advanced features like custom colors and reminders with an optional upgrade.

What We Love

  • 📋 Convenient and handy widget
  • 🔍 Helpful for reminders and lists
  • 💻 Works well as a digital sticky note
  • 🎨 Customizable colors and fonts
  • 💰 Affordable one-time payment

Room to Improve

  • 🔋 Battery drain issues
  • 🐛 Disappearing notes
  • 📝 Difficulty editing and saving notes
  • 💰 Paid features required for full functionality
  • 🔍 Confusing note ID management
Microsoft OneNote#3

Microsoft OneNote by Microsoft Corporation

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos
Worth Considering
📊 Productivity
4.7😐(1.1M ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Capture and organize your thoughts, ideas, and plans with a powerful digital note-taking app. Utilize AI features for summarization and transcription, and seamlessly sync notes across all your devices. Collaborate on creative projects and integrate with other Microsoft Office applications.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Simple, works well
  • 👍 Great for planning
  • 👍 Powerful note-taking app
  • 👍 Invaluable tool for note taking
  • 👍 Used for years, couldn't be without this app
  • 👍 Helps keep up with college
  • 👍 A+ for getting life organized
  • 👍 Best app to get organized
  • 👍 Excellent across ALMOST all platforms
  • 👍 Excellent for work and school
  • 👍 Wonderful app (better than Evernote)
  • 👍 Paperless uni student
  • 👍 EVERYTHING in one place & mega easy to find
  • 👍 Amazing. Especially since it's free
  • 👍 Awesome app
  • 👍 Using it for years

Room to Improve

  • 🔨 Could be better
  • 🔨 Formatting issues on mobile app
  • 🔨 Buggy widget, no dark app icon
  • 🐛 Glitchy, crashes often
  • 🐛 Terrible sync speeds
  • 🐛 The drawing tool switches to text tool without being selected
  • 🐛 Crashes since iOS 17
  • 🐛 Dude, please fix scrolling issue
  • 🐛 Bugs, lots of bugs
  • 🐛 Terrible on iPad, very slow
  • 🐛 Glitchy af now
  • 🐛 Strokes vanish randomly when writing with Apple Pencil
  • 🐛 No easy way to select large amounts of only highlighting
  • 🐛 Unbelievably unreliable
  • 🐛 Wildly inconsistent syncing
  • 🐛 Very glitchy, too risky
  • 🐛 App crashing

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FAQ about Sticky Notes

What are the best sticky notes apps for iPhone?
Sticky Notes & Color Widget tops our sticky notes apps ranking as of November 2026, with a 4.6-star average from 6.6K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top sticky notes apps we rank are free to download, including Sticky Notes & Color Widget and Sticky Widgets.
Sticky Notes & Color Widget shows ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of November 2026.
We track 249+ sticky notes apps on the iOS App Store as of November 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.

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