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, iPad, Mac, Apple TV or Apple Vision Pro into a bedside clock, and your Apple Watch into a weather face: the time, all night long, and nothing else on screen. THREE CLOCK FACES Swipe from right to left to switch between them (arrow keys on Mac, the remote on Apple TV): • 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. • Weather: the time in large digits, the day fading away around the edge of the screen from sunrise to sunset, the temperature with today's high, low and feels-like, wind and gusts, humidity, UV index, pressure, severe weather warnings, the next twelve hours with the chance of rain, sunrise, sunset and the moon phase. APPLE WATCH On your watch, WatchM3 shows a full-screen face under the watch's own time: the day fading away around the edge of the screen, current weather with today's high and low, wind and gusts, and the next six hours. Four complications for Apple watch faces: the day, the next sunrise or sunset, and the weather. 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. • Kind to OLED screens: the faces shift slightly every minute and the time moves every hour. EVERY SCREEN iPhone in landscape, iPad in portrait and landscape, a resizable window or full screen on Mac, your TV screen with Apple TV, a window in your space on Apple Vision Pro. On Apple TV, press left or right on the remote to switch faces and up or down to adjust brightness; no screen saver while WatchM3 is on screen. Folded like a tent, iPhone Duo shows the time on its outer display; set up like a laptop, on the upper half of the screen; opened like a book, the time on one page and the weather on the other. WEATHER AND PRIVACY Weather data comes from Apple's weather service. Your location is used only to get the local weather and the sunrise and sunset times; it is never sent to us. No account, no ads, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: WatchM3 at 5 against Hide The Notch's 2. Hide The Notch's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 27.0). 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide The Notch | WatchM3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 2 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









