Comparison

Hide The Notch vs Debigulator

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

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.

Highlights
  • Shrinks images
  • Compresses photos
  • Faster image sharing
  • Direct Messages app integration
  • One-tap compression
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
Debigulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hide The Notch versus Debigulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchDebigulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinCocoatype, LLC

Customer experience

Hide The Notch

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Debigulator

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

None

Debigulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Debigulator free?
Debigulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hide The Notch or Debigulator?
Hide The Notch and Debigulator are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Hide The Notch or Debigulator have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor Debigulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or Debigulator?
Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, and Debigulator every 4 months. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on September 28, 2026 and Debigulator on September 30, 2026.

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