Wallpaper Maker vs Chroma Hue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wallpaper Maker
Create unique bordered wallpapers for your phone's home and lock screens. Easily import photos or use included images, customize border colors and styles, and export your creations to apply them directly.
- Create bordered wallpapers
- Import photos or use included images
- Customize border color, style, and opacity
- Export wallpapers to photo library
- Apply wallpapers from Photos app
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Make your phone shine with custom bordered wallpapers! Notched is a tool for creating cool and distinct wallpapers for your phone. Quickly and easily make wallpapers for your home or lock screen in just four simple steps: - Import any photo from your library or choose from a great selection of included images - Set border color, style (single line, double line, gradient or rainbow) and opacity - Export wallpaper to your photo library - Apply wallpaper to your home or lock screen from the Photos app, via the "Use as Wallpaper" action
Chroma Hue
Easily design unique wallpapers with halo effects for your devices. This tool allows for quick creation of custom backgrounds to enhance your setup.
- Create custom wallpapers
- Halo background effects
- Quick wallpaper design
- Enhance device setup
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Chroma hue is a dope tool to create custom clean wallpapers to make your setup as perfect as can be. Use Chroma Hue now to create a wallpaper in seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Chroma Hue at fortnightly against Wallpaper Maker's every 4 months. Chroma Hue also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 68%). Wallpaper Maker's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (312 vs 26). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Wallpaper Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chroma Hue sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wallpaper Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wallpaper Maker has 312 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Wallpaper Maker's written reviews are positive against 83% of Chroma Hue's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Wallpaper Maker ships an update every 4 months, Chroma Hue fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wallpaper Maker | Chroma Hue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (312 ratings) — better | 4.1 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 312 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Armchair Engineering | Winter Bagley |
Customer experience
Wallpaper Maker
Chroma Hue
Bugs and requests
Wallpaper Maker
Reported bugs
12 issues- Corners off screen on iPad
- Notch not lining up on iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Extended wallpaper feature causes white blur
- App no longer works after iOS update
- Cannot change phone type after initial selection
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- Border runs under notch and corners
- Watermark makes app unusable
- Wallpaper preview looks good, but effect doesn't apply
- Notched border not present when saved as wallpaper
- Crashes frequently
- Does not align with notch
- App crashes after iOS update
Requested features
11 requests- Update for iPhone 14/15
- Fix double line opacity
- Add border for oval dock/top half
- Increase color scale/add color sliders/hex codes
- Add neon glowing lines
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- Option for triple color
- Exported wallpaper sized correctly
- Lock screen and home screen specific embellishments
- Access to other Photos folders
- Allow browsing photo albums beyond 'moments'
- Support for newer iPhones (12 mini, 12 Pro Max, XsMax)
Chroma Hue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wallpaper Maker
- Notched Unlock$2.99
Chroma Hue
- Chrome Hue Addless$1.99
- Chroma Hue+$4.99
Questions
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