Hide The Notch vs waai
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.
waai
Easily set your favorite images as wallpaper without icons obstructing the view. This utility helps you precisely position your image on a guide screen, ensuring a perfect fit for your device's home screen.
- Custom wallpaper creation
- Icon obstruction avoidance
- Precise image positioning
- iPhone/iPad home screen guide
- Parallax effect toggle
- iPad landscape support
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I want to use my favorite image as wallpaper, but I can't paste it properly because icons are hindering the view... This app will help you out! While looking at the guide image created based on the iPhone/iPad home screen, you can move it around to create an image at a position where it looks good, and set it as the wallpaper. - Parallax effect can be turned on or off. - Supports iPad landscape orientation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: waai at 13.0 against Hide The Notch's 16.4. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, waai every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide The Notch | waai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxime Thirouin | Masahiro Ikeda |
Customer experience
Hide The Notch
waai
In-app purchases
Hide The Notch
No in-app purchases
waai
No in-app purchases







