Hide The Notch vs Tooliverse
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.
Tooliverse
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Your Toolbox, in Your Pocket Tooliverse turns the hardware already inside your phone into a practical collection of real-world tools. Need to level a picture? Measure an angle? Find north? Check altitude? Measure sound? Tune a guitar? Inspect something up close? Before buying, carrying, or downloading another single-purpose tool, check Tooliverse. 65+ real-world tools. One app. Free. No subscription. No forced full-screen video ads before you can use a tool. Measure & Level Turn your phone into practical measuring instruments: • Bubble Level • Surface Level • Plumb Bob • Digital Angle Finder • Clinometer • Protractor • Ruler • AR Tape Measure • Distance Meter • Height Meter • Area Meter • Camera Level • Picture Hanging • Square Checker • Object Dimension Scanner • Storm Distance Meter Navigate & Explore Useful tools for everyday navigation and the outdoors: • Compass • Bearing Finder • Altimeter • Barometer • GPS Coordinates • Waypoints • Backtrack • Distance Tracker • Speedometer • Trail Recorder • Sunrise/Sunset Direction Finder • Compass Interference Detector Sound & Music Turn your microphone and speakers into useful audio instruments: • Sound Meter • Noise Exposure Meter • Frequency Meter • Spectrum Analyzer • Live Audio Waveform • Guitar Tuner • Tone Generator • Metronome • BPM Detector • Speaker Test • Microphone Test See & Inspect Use your camera as an inspection instrument: • Magnifier • Mirror • Inspection Camera • Color Meter • Light Meter • Camera Alignment Grid • Document Scanner • OCR Scanner • Barcode Scanner • Camera Test Field & Outdoors A pocket field kit for hiking, camping, scouting, and outdoor use: • Compass • Altimeter • Barometer • Waypoints • Backtrack • Trail Recorder • Red Light • SOS Beacon • Signal Lamp • Storm Distance Meter • GPS Coordinates Workshop & DIY Keep useful workshop instruments in your pocket: • Bubble Level • Surface Level • Digital Angle Finder • Clinometer • Cross-Line Level • Vibration Meter • G-Force Meter • Picture Hanging • Square Checker • Shake Counter • Vehicle Acceleration/Braking Meter • Object Dimension Scanner Light & Emergency Useful tools when you need them: • Flashlight • Strobe • SOS Beacon • Red Light • Signal Lamp Phone Testing Quickly check important parts of your device: • Display Test • Touch Test • Speaker Test • Microphone Test • Camera Test • Vibration Test • Motion Sensor Test • Phone Inspector Built for Real Life Tooliverse is not a collection of random calculators or software utilities. Every Tooliverse tool is designed around a simple idea: Use the hardware already in your phone to replace or approximate a real-world tool. Your phone already contains cameras, microphones, motion sensors, GPS, a compass, a flashlight, powerful processing hardware, and, on supported devices, a barometer and advanced AR capabilities. Tooliverse puts that hardware to work. Private & Useful Offline Many Tooliverse tools process information directly on your device and work without an internet connection. No account required. Free. No Subscription. Tooliverse is built to be a toolbox you can actually keep, without another monthly subscription. Install it once and carry a practical collection of useful tools in your pocket. Tooliverse Your toolbox, in your pocket. Accuracy and feature availability vary by device, permissions, environment, calibration, and sensor hardware. Tooliverse is designed for general-purpose measurements and reference, and is not a replacement for certified professional, medical, safety, surveying, or other specialized instruments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hide The Notch at none against Tooliverse's shown. Tooliverse's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 weekly, Tooliverse daily. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide The Notch | Tooliverse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxime Thirouin | Cliqurs Studios |
In-app purchases
Hide The Notch
No in-app purchases
Tooliverse
No in-app purchases









