Comparison

Hide The Notch vs Notch Wallpapers

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hide The Notch

Customize your iPhone X wallpaper to creatively hide the notch. Use pre-set images or your own photos with various effects to design unique backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Notch hiding wallpapers
  • Use own photos
  • Apply effects
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • iPhone X companion
Features
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Your wallpaper is the picture you look at most often in your life. Fifty times a day, a hundred. Someone, a place, a light, a three second memory before you answer a message. And there is a notch in it. This app adjusts your wallpaper to hide it. The top of the screen turns black, the same night as the one already around the camera, the kind only OLED screens can make, and your picture carries on underneath as if nothing had happened. Notch, punch hole, Dynamic Island: whatever your phone calls it, it disappears. You choose your photo, the one that matters, and frame it the way you want. Or you start from a gradient and push it around with your finger until you land on the right colour, the one you would not have found anywhere else. There are several ways to make the notch disappear, and a single setting for each. You try, you see straight away, you keep the one you like. Then the picture is yours. It lands in your photos, at the exact size of your screen. You keep it, you send it to someone, you make another one tomorrow because the light has changed. Free. No ads, no account, no tracking, no subscription. Your photos never leave your phone.

About

Notch Wallpapers

Features
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Customize the lock and home screen of your iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max or iPhone XR with Custom X Notch app! This app uses special backgrounds with black positioned shapes to hide the notch from the interface, making it more clean and customizable. Or you can even add fullscreen bezels shaped according to the screen curves to create amazing geometrical designs to the entire screen. Create your own custom background screens: - Multiple Notch Styles - Beautifully designed custom designed full-screen frames - Special themes like Cat Ears and Super Hero notchs - Use your own Wallpapers or Camera roll Photos - Allows to scale and zoom to fit your pictures It is easy as 1 2 3! 1. Choose a notch style or full-screen bezel 2. Choose your photo and scale the way you want 3. Preview and save and set as Wallpaper Try it now and amaze your friends with your new iPhone style! Optional Subscription: Custom X Notch Tools PRO offers a weekly subscription at USD $0.99, monthly at $2.99 and annual at $11.99, please note prices may vary depending on sales taxes or countries. - The user will be asked to login to his iTunes account (if not already) prior to the purchase and the payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Additional information is provided stating that subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. PRIVACY POLICY: No information is shared between third parties or the developer, as this application is offline. Therefore, your data remains just for you. Terms Link: https://bit.ly/2tWZ5cM

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
Notch Wallpapers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hide The Notch at none against Notch Wallpapers's 4. Hide The Notch also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Notch Wallpapers's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notch Wallpapers sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Hide The Notch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide The Notch ships an update every 3 weeks, Notch Wallpapers every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Hide The Notch versus Notch Wallpapers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchNotch Wallpapers
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.411.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinLucas Yamashita

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Notch Wallpapers

Subscriptions2
  • Custom X Notch Premium W3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Custom X Notch Subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time2
  • CustomXNotchs Remove Ads$0.99
  • CustomXNotchs PRO Upgrade$1.99

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notch Wallpapers free?
Notch Wallpapers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hide The Notch or Notch Wallpapers have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor Notch Wallpapers shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or Notch Wallpapers?
Hide The Notch ships an update every 3 weeks, and Notch Wallpapers every 2 months. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Notch Wallpapers on October 24, 2026.

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