Hide The Notch vs WatchM3
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.
WatchM3
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WatchM3 turns your iPhone or iPad into a bedside clock: the time, all night long, and nothing else on screen. TWO CLOCK FACES Swipe from right to left to switch between them: • Digits: the original WatchM3 face, with large pale digits and a blinking colon. • LED panel: a pixel clock in warm white, with a seconds chaser that runs around the edge of the screen, one lap per minute. MADE FOR THE NIGHT • Swipe up or down to adjust the brightness of the clock. Keep swiping down past the minimum to dim the screen itself, below its usual lowest setting. • Pinch to make the time bigger or smaller. • Size and brightness are remembered for each face. • No status bar, no buttons, no menus, and a black launch screen. • Your device never goes to sleep or locks while WatchM3 is open. IPHONE DUO Folded like a tent, iPhone Duo shows the time on its outer display. Set up like a laptop, the time sits on the upper half of the screen. PRIVACY WatchM3 collects no data at all. No account, no ads, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hide The Notch at fortnightly against WatchM3's every 14 months. Hide The Notch also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 27.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hide The Notch ships an update fortnightly, WatchM3 every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide The Notch | WatchM3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxime Thirouin | David Larose |
In-app purchases
Hide The Notch
No in-app purchases
WatchM3
No in-app purchases









