Comparison

Hide The Notch vs Wallape

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

Wallape

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Wallape helps you to create unique wallpaper of perfect size made exactly for your device. Select from thousands of wallpapers generated with special algorithms to find wallpaper you like today.

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
Wallape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hide The Notch at none against Wallape's 1. Hide The Notch also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.4). 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. Wallape sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hide The Notch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, Wallape every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Hide The Notch versus Wallape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchWallape
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinMikhail Vyrtsev

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Wallape

One-time1
  • Donate$0.99

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wallape free?
Wallape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hide The Notch or Wallape have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor Wallape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or Wallape?
Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, and Wallape every 10 months. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on September 8, 2026 and Wallape on September 3, 2026.

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