WidgetNote gives your iPhone Home Screen the familiar clarity of sticky notes, with modern iCloud sync, shared notes, and deep customization.
Custom paper, fonts, colors, photos, rotation, and shared notes.
A sticky notes widget should be fast to read and easy to change — the digital answer to a wall of paper notes stuck around a desk. WidgetNote keeps the note visible, lets you style it clearly, and makes it simple to update when the reminder changes.
Small widgets can become hard to scan if the note has the wrong style. WidgetNote gives you control over the details that affect readability.
Add a background photo to a sticky note when the reminder is visual: a receipt, a recipe, a parking spot, a ticket, or a small memory you want to see often.
Use note rotation or stacked widgets when your Home Screen needs more than one sticky note without becoming crowded. For the classic square-paper look specifically, see the post-it widget guide.
The reason a paper sticky note works is contrast: a yellow square on a white wall is impossible to not see. A sticky notes widget has to earn the same thing on a screen that is already busy, and the mistake almost everyone makes is picking the color they find prettiest rather than the one that separates from their wallpaper. A pale note on a pale photo wallpaper disappears within a week — not because you stopped caring, but because your eye stopped catching it.
A practical approach: pick the paper color last, with your actual wallpaper behind it. If your wallpaper is dark, warm paper tones read strongest. If it is light or photographic, a deeper paper with light text usually wins. And if you are running several sticky notes, give each one a different paper color and keep those meanings stable — groceries always green, work always amber. After a few days you stop reading the notes to know which is which, which is the whole point.
Text size deserves the same treatment. The temptation is to shrink the font so more fits, but a sticky note that requires focus is a note you will skip while walking. Fewer words at a readable size beats a full paragraph you never actually parse.
It is worth being deliberate about which kind of note goes where, because the failure mode of a Home Screen full of notes is that none of them get read. A sticky note is short, static, and glanceable — a fact you need repeatedly. If the note keeps growing instead, it has become a notepad widget, and it wants a larger widget size and a different layout.
And if two people need the same note, it is a shared note widget — one note, synced, appearing on both Home Screens, which behaves very differently from each person keeping their own copy. Getting this split right is most of what separates a Home Screen you actually read from a decorative one.
Capture the reminder, list, or message you want to keep visible.
Choose paper, type, colors, size, position, and optional photo background.
Add WidgetNote from the iOS widget picker and choose your note.
Tap the widget whenever the note needs a quick change.
WidgetNote is built specifically for sticky note-style iPhone widgets, with customization, photo backgrounds, iCloud sync, and shared notes.
Yes. You can change the paper color, text color, font, size, position, and tilt for each note.
Yes. WidgetNote supports photo backgrounds for notes, so a widget can combine an image with readable text.
Yes. WidgetNote supports note rotation and stacked note widgets for showing more than one note.
Turn your iPhone Home Screen into a post-it board. WidgetNote makes post it note widgets you can color, tilt, photograph, and share — visible without opening an app.
WidgetNote is a notepad widget for iPhone — keep a running notepad, checklist, or scratch note on your Home Screen and Lock Screen without opening an app.
Add notes to your iPhone Home Screen with WidgetNote. Keep reminders, checklists, photo notes, and shared notes visible at a glance.
Download WidgetNote and make a sticky note widget that is useful every time you unlock your iPhone.