PolyWall vs Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PolyWall
Create unique and stunning polygon wallpapers for your device. Generate endless patterns and colors, or hand-tweak designs for personalized abstract art. Export in high quality for your Lock and Home screens.
- Generate polygon patterns and colors
- Hand-tweak designs
- Create abstract art
- High-quality export
- Set as device wallpaper
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PolyWall is the app for wallpapers generation, it lets you generate awesome patterns automatically or using hand-tweaking. Sometimes you would like to create pretty looking art by yourself beyond the limits. And PolyWall will help you with that, letting you create amazing, unique wallpapers everyday and effortlessly. With PolyWall you can: - Generate endless amount of polygon patterns and colors. - Pick your colors, positions and more. - Design beautiful abstract art. - Export in highest quality. - Use the pattern as your device wallpaper for Lock and Home Screen. To support our app for future development - leave your feedback in App Store, it helps a lot! Thank you very much.
Live
Easily transform videos, pictures, GIFs, and burst photos into dynamic Live Photos for your iPhone wallpaper. Explore a vast collection of themes, ringtones, and styles to personalize your lock screen and impress your friends. Supports automatic saving and customization options.
- Create Live Photos from videos
- Convert photos to live
- Convert GIFs to live
- Convert burst photos to Live Photos
- Automatic saving to album
- Customizable background colors and images
- URL to wallpaper generation
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photolive - dynamic theme Live Photo wallpaper creator. photolive can create Live Photos(Live Photo) very quickly. Convert your videos or pictures or URLs into Live Photos, use them as iPhone wallpapers, and provide a sea of dynamics, themes, ringtones, transparency, games, anime, Live Photos, couples and more than 100 types. You can customize the dynamic wallpapers of the lock screen and show off to your friends! Featured Function Create a Live Photo • Convert photos to live • Convert photos and videos to live • Convert GIFs to live • Convert burst photos to Live Photos • Automatically save the produced live photos to the album • Various background colors • Set a photo of your choice as the background • Use two-finger pinch video to zoom in and resize and • Video can be repeated to restore as a Live Photo Smart Wallpaper Provide a one-click URL to automatically generate a sea of popular high-definition wallpapers with different styles of desktop themes. Let users freely customize their phone desktops. You can set dynamic wallpapers in "Settings" > "Wallpaper". Only devices above 6s support dynamic wallpaper function. You can dynamically support live wallpapers "only" on the above devices in the Settings app.
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Verdict
PolyWall and Live both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of PolyWall's written reviews are positive against 63% of Live's. PolyWall also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Live's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (246 vs 23). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PolyWall against 4.7 for Live. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live has 246 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of PolyWall's written reviews are positive against 63% of Live's.
PolyWall ships an update every 6 months, Live every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PolyWall | Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (23 ratings) — better | 4.7 (246 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 63.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 246 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pavel Zubco | Beyond Trading |
Customer experience
PolyWall
Live
In-app purchases
PolyWall
No in-app purchases
Live
No in-app purchases
