Hide The Notch vs Debigulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Notch hiding wallpapers
- Use own photos
- Apply effects
- Customizable backgrounds
- iPhone X companion
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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.
Debigulator
This utility app compresses and shrinks your photos, significantly speeding up image sharing over the internet. It offers a streamlined experience, even integrating directly with messaging apps for one-tap compression.
- Shrinks images
- Compresses photos
- Faster image sharing
- Direct Messages app integration
- One-tap compression
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Debigulator makes your photos lower-quality. … Wait, that's a bad sales pitch. Debigulator shrinks and compresses your images to make sending images over the Internet significantly faster. My parents live in the absolute middle of nowhere and I made this app because I got sick of hearing "it's still downloading" when I sent them photos of my cats. If you're sick of hearing that, too, download this app. It even works directly in the Messages app to make sending compressed images a one-tap experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hide The Notch at weekly against Debigulator's every 4 months. Debigulator's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 5.0 for Hide The Notch against 5.0 for Debigulator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, Debigulator every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide The Notch | Debigulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxime Thirouin | Cocoatype, LLC |
Customer experience
Hide The Notch
Debigulator
In-app purchases
Hide The Notch
No in-app purchases
Debigulator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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