Comparison

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen vs PixelThat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen

Transform your favorite video clips into dynamic live wallpapers for your iPhone's lock screen. Customize with colors or patterns and easily trim videos for the perfect fit. Compatible with iOS 17 and later, and iPhone 6S or newer.

Highlights
  • Create live wallpapers from videos
  • Adjust video size and placement
  • Trim video length
  • Customize background color or pattern
  • Supports 4K and HD videos
Features
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Video Wallpaper will let you turn any moment in a video into a live wallpaper and share it perfectly to your lock screen on iOS 17 and iOS 18. You can customize the background with your favorite color or a fun pattern. Turn your favorite Instagram Reel, TikTok, Facebook, or SnapChat stories into a Live Photo Wallpaper! Features include: - Turn your videos into Live Photos and create live wallpapers for your iPhone screen saver (use 4k or 1080P HD videos) - Adjust video size and placement - Trim video length - Change background color or add a fun pattern NOTICE * iPhone XR on iOS 13 supports Live Photos ** Live photo wallpapers are only supported on iPhone 6S or later. *** iPhone SE does not support Live Photos Have any comments? Want to request a feature? Please Email Team@mixcord.co Follow us: @VidWallpaperApp - Subscription auto-renew at the cost of the selected plan, unless canceled 24-hours in advance prior to the end of the current period. The subscription fee is charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Setting after purchase. Per Apple policy, no cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Once purchased, refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. - Terms of use - https://www.mixcord.co/terms-of-use-agreement.html - Privacy policy - https://www.mixcord.co/privacy-policy.html - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PixelThat

Features
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PixelThat turns a photo into crisp pixel art or ASCII art, right on your iPhone. Point it at a picture and it does the work a pixel artist would do: it finds the face and frames it the way an avatar is framed, lifts the subject off the background so the edges stay clean, and flattens the colours to a small, deliberate palette chosen from the picture itself, with faces weighted so skin tones survive. Only then does it lay down the pixels. Everything runs on your device. There is no account, no upload and no queue. The app contains no networking code at all, so it works with the network switched off. ASCII ART MODE • Switch the same photo to characters: classic, colour, blocks, Braille dots or your own words • Choose how many characters across, and add grain and glow for a film look • Copy it as text, save it as a picture, or make it move as a short looping video AVATARS THAT FIND THE FACE • Auto framing puts the head where an avatar's head belongs • Or drag the selection box yourself: move it, pinch it, tap to jump • Square, rounded or circle, with a 1 to 4 pixel frame in any colour BACKGROUNDS ON YOUR TERMS • Transparent, a flat colour, a two-colour gradient, a pixel-art blue sky with clouds, or keep the photo • On-device subject cutout with a threshold, grow and shrink, and a live preview when it needs a nudge PALETTES WORTH KEEPING • A palette built from your own picture, in CIELAB, with faces weighted • Paste your own hex colours • Floyd-Steinberg and ordered 2x2, 4x4 and 8x8 dithering FINE CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT • Sizes from 8 to 256 pixels, or any width from 4 to 512, with the common sizes previewed side by side • Auto levels, ink edges and outlines • Contrast, saturation, brightness and gamma • Fine zoom, pan and mirror • Hold to compare with your photo, with undo and redo RECENTS THAT REMEMBER Every picture you keep is filed with the settings that made it. Tap it later to put those settings on a different photo, which is how you make a set of avatars that match. EXPORT Save the enlarged copy to Photos, which is what most sites want for an avatar, or share both the real pixels and the enlargement. PRIVACY PixelThat collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no tracking and no network requests of any kind.

Screenshots

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen4 screens
PixelThat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PixelThat at none against Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen's 2. PixelThat also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. PixelThat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen ships an update fortnightly, PixelThat every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen versus PixelThat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideo Wallpaper · Lock ScreenPixelThat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (3.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.5K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMixcord Inc.Mohammed Shehada

Bugs and requests

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Live wallpaper doesn't animate
  • Doesn't work after iOS updates
  • Crashes or glitches frequently

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add sound to live wallpapers
  • Increase maximum video length
  • Improve video quality

PixelThat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Video Wallpaper Pro$9.99
None

PixelThat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen free?
Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PixelThat free?
PixelThat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen or PixelThat have ads?
Neither Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen nor PixelThat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen or PixelThat?
Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen ships an update fortnightly, and PixelThat every 6 days. Most recently, Video Wallpaper · Lock Screen was updated on October 20, 2026 and PixelThat on October 6, 2026.

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