Comparison

Hide The Notch vs Sfara Quest

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

Sfara Quest

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WELCOME to Sfara Quest! Sfara Quest is a way to improve Sfara’s life saving technology for users. It will only be activated for users that have the Companion Mobile Safety (CMS) from Sfara app running on their phones in parallel and subscribers who will allow their data collection to be used for improving the Sfara main product. Sfara Quest is a data collection and labeling tool for Sfara’s customers and end users, to help design and train algorithms that are in turn used to improve the detections of Sfara’s main product line. By collecting this data, we’re creating better and more precise features that in turn keep the Sfara customers and users safer. And our customers are helping with it, fully understanding and consenting what they are doing. Compared to other apps who collect information on users without the users being aware of it. WHO IS IT FOR? Sfara Quest is offered only for companies, NGO’s and Clubs who allow data collection through their employees/volunteers in return for a discount on the Companion Mobile Safety app from Sfara. WHERE IS THE DATA STORED AND DOES IT CONTAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION? Sensor data and location information is gathered from the user’s phone and stored in the cloud as logfiles. The logs are associated with a user ID. These logs do not contain any Personal Identifying Information other than location data, and can only be linked back to a user through a User ID. Therefore data will only be collected with already existing full consent of the CMS users and only used for specific defined tasks. Data collection only occurs when the user explicitly starts a task, and ends when the task is complete or the user cancels the task. OKAY, SOUNDS PRETTY AWESOME, HOW CAN WE START HELPING KEEP PEOPLE SAFE? - Quick, Easy, and FREE registration - Complete several “Pending tasks”, following simple instructions for a given period of time - Go on about your day!

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
Sfara Quest2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hide The Notch at fortnightly against Sfara Quest's every 9 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide The Notch ships an update fortnightly, Sfara Quest every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Hide The Notch versus Sfara Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchSfara Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinSfara, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

None

Sfara Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sfara Quest free?
Sfara Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hide The Notch or Sfara Quest have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor Sfara Quest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or Sfara Quest?
Hide The Notch ships an update fortnightly, and Sfara Quest every 9 months. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on October 13, 2026 and Sfara Quest on October 14, 2026.

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