"It's perfect, honestly." - Myke Hurley, Connected
"What makes Sticky Widgets great is the simplicity of the experience." - Ryan Christoffel, MacStories
"This is a great concept." - Dave Mark, The Loop
Welcome to Sticky Widgets, the absolute easiest way to put a sticky note on your home screen and edit it quickly. Add as many Sticky Widgets as you'd like, in every widget size. It's simple! It works on iPad! You can even pin notes to your Lock Screen with a premium subscription so they're visible even when your phone is locked!
1. Add a Sticky Widget to your home screen
2. Tap on the widget to edit it
3. That's about it!
But that's not all. Once you have a widget in place, you can customize it: change color, background, font, alignment, size, even rotation! And your widgets now sync to your iCloud account, meaning you can put a note on multiple devices logged into the same Apple ID and they'll stay in sync.
Sticky Widgets supports deep system integration with Siri, Shortcuts, the Dynamic Island, and more so there are even more ways to view and update your notes and lists.
Sticky Widgets is free to download and use. You get unlimited widgets, three classic background colors, three fonts, iCloud sync, Siri and Shortcuts integration, and full control over alignment, size, and rotation: all without paying a thing.
An optional upgrade unlocks everything else: the full color picker with any color you want, gradients and mesh gradients, hundreds of additional fonts, custom text colors, Lock Screen pinning, separate styling for light and dark mode, saved presets, the ability to restore archived notes, scheduled reminders, and no ads. Premium features can be accessed with a monthly, quarterly, or annual subscription, or with a one-time purchase.
The Sticky Widgets Terms of Use and Privacy Policy can be found at https://www.tylerhillsman.com/privacy-sw/. The Apple EULA can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app takes great advantage of iOS 14's widgets and nails the functionality of putting reminders or short lists directly on your Home Screen. I've been using it alongside my more full featured todo app (which can easily get cluttered) to simply ID the top 3-5 things to do in a given day, and then they are in front of me every time I glance at my phone. Love it!!I did have one glitch with the 2.0 update and, after playing with it, realized that it seems to be due to the new iCloud sync feature. Since my iCloud is full (I don't pay for it, so that's a near permenant reality), it wasn't actually saving any of my changes (I only use it on my phone at this point). I fixed it by going into the iCloud settings and turning off the slider for iCloud access for the app. Now everything's back to bring groovy. 😎Thanks for the hard work on this app!
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Not worth it
Rootttttttt
This app has always been a bit buggy but not enough to where it truly bothered me and I’ve been using it basically every day since I downloaded it. It wasn’t perfect but it worked perfectly for what I needed. There’s been a couple updates that I haven’t liked (like adding the ugly darker transparent background when using the list instead of just keeping it the same color), but I could get past that because I liked the app and it was more of an aesthetic preference and didn’t have any effect on the apps usefulness.But I just updated the app the other day and it changed from fully crossing things off your list by putting a line through them to instead just have a small super buggy check next to the word. Not only is it a pain to actually get it to acknowledge when I’m trying to check something off, but it’s also not nearly as effective for me. Having the strike-through helped me better visual everything. It wouldn’t have been a big deal if it was something you were given the option on, like choosing whether you want a strike-through or a check, but the fact you have no choice just like there was no choice with the ugly transparent background change is extremely annoying.Even if you like to use checks I wouldn’t recommend this app given just how buggy the checks are. And if you don’t them or like to have options then I would suggest finding something else. Maybe the paid version gives you choices for these but I don’t think so and considering how well the app works… it’s definitely not worth the money. As is I guess I’ll be trying to find and adapt to a whole new app because this one is no longer useful to me.
Kinda glitchy
k.money_
Worked just fine when I had the free version but once I upgraded to the premium, every time I tried to add a new sticky it would change all my other stickies to the same format and txt as the new one is just written. Tried writing them in the app, same thing. Added a new one through the widget function same thing. Had to delete the app entirely it was so infuriating. Might try to redownload and see if it's corrected itself. Just kind of annoying that once I fork over $3 for more features it decides to regress into a more limited version of itself and not allow me to use the features I just paid for. Not to mention, the premium features aren't really that great. A limited range of fonts that are basically all the same. Background color selection which is your standard color selection no option for photo backgrounds or transparent background. It allows you to set the background color to full opacity which should allow it be transparent and leave only the text but when you do it and then go look at the widget it simply changes the background to solid black which is annoying. Why give a transparent background option and then not make it transparent when it's used? And the final annoyance is the text size. The slider is so sensitive it's practically impossible to use your finger to adjust it with precision it jumps to where it thinks your finger last touched rather than where you actually indicated and it doesn't have the ability to simply type in the font size which would easily make up for the sensitive touch slider but for some reason that's not an available function despite having it display the size in numerical format already. All in all a waste of $3 - gonna keep searching hopefully I'll find a better widget app in the app store
Great usability
Deathsoccer17
Hello I just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed this app. It’s very functional and I like how the note type can be changed. There’s also two ways for it to show on the Lock Screen, when you add it as a widget, and when you pin it. I like to pin it and find out the colors of my background and match the pinned note with the same colors. I have a (what I believe) good suggestion. It would be so cool if a line from a list could be allowed to be tapped and then deleted from both the lock screen / Home Screen that way I could see my work go down without having to go into the app. It would also look better than the clutter of the words plus the lines through them marking them out. Great job for this app though! Overall love it
Never forget a sticky! You can now set reminders on your notes so you'll get a notification exactly when you need it. We've also added a new list view for your home screen, making it easier to browse all your notes at a glance. Plus, we've squashed some bugs and made improvements under the hood. Thanks for your support!
Version 5.0.6
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Information
Seller
1881 Digital, LLC
Size
67.7 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
Arabic and 7 more
Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
