Comparison

Hide The Notch vs Flash Composer

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

Flash Composer

Features
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Flash Composer is a flash light composer tool that enables you to program the frequency of flash light lit up on your iOS Devices. Compose Flash Features: • Flash Light setting can be customised and save in the local folder • Add/Delete flash composer file • Add multiple light tiles, each light tile represents time duration [in Second] and light information [On/Off] • Set repetition for light composer -- [If repeat is On, flash light will continue to play infinitely.] -- [If repeat is Off, flash light will stop after the finish.] • Enable/disable flash start time. -- [If flash start time is On, flash light will start play at the time set by the user.] • Set flash light start time. Run Flash Composer: • Show flash light run time. • Show flashes light On/Off indicator. • Able to turn off screen while flash light is running. -- [Tap on the same location again to toggle screen On.] Share Flash Composer Files: • All the flash composer files can be accessed in [Files] app, [Flash Composer] Folder. • You can share flash composer files to another device via Airdrop, Messages or Mail. • To load flash composer files that share with others, simply place the flash composer files into [Flash Composer] Folder via [Files] app. Usage: Can be use in Welcome Ceremony, Birthday Party, S.O.S screen signal, Wedding, Light Show or any appropriate function. Work great with multiple iOS devices. *This is a universal app that works for both iPhone and iPad Pro with flash light. Thanks for your support and do visit nitrio.com for more apps for your iOS devices.

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
Flash Composer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hide The Notch at Free against Flash Composer's $2.99. Hide The Notch also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 45 months). Flash Composer's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On 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

Hide The Notch is free to download; Flash Composer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, Flash Composer every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Hide The Notch versus Flash Composer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchFlash Composer
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 45 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinHeng Jia Liang

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

None

Flash Composer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flash Composer free?
Flash Composer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hide The Notch or Flash Composer have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor Flash Composer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or Flash Composer?
Hide The Notch ships an update weekly, and Flash Composer every 45 months. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on September 28, 2026 and Flash Composer on September 25, 2026.

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