・ (Yidget) vs Transparent App Icons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
・ (Yidget)
Create custom widgets that blend seamlessly with your device's wallpaper. Select and crop an image, then set it as your wallpaper. Add widgets from your home screen and position them to create a unique, integrated look.
- Transparent widget creation
- Wallpaper integration
- Image cropping and selection
- Home screen widget placement
- Customizable widget positioning
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Blend your favorite wallpaper and widget into one, and craft a Home Screen that's uniquely yours. How to use: • Choose a photo, crop it, and save it • Set the saved photo as your wallpaper from the Photos app (Perspective Zoom: Off) • Add the widget to your Home Screen • Touch and hold the widget, then choose "Edit Widget" to set its position The result is seamless — your wallpaper flows directly into your Home Screen. Available in Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large sizes, so you can enjoy your favorite photo across your entire Home Screen.
Transparent App Icons
Easily customize your iOS home screen with unique icons that blend seamlessly with your wallpaper. Create custom layouts and spacing for a personalized aesthetic. Includes a variety of overlay images for a see-through logo effect.
- Upload wallpaper for seamless icon blending
- Automatic image cropping to wallpaper size
- Create icon images for entire home screen pages
- Overlay transparent images with 2200+ logos
- Custom icon spacing and layouts
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Updated for iPhone 16 and iOS 18.1 with support for large icons mode! Transparent App Icons is the easiest, simplest way to customize your iOS 14+ Home Screen with icons that are set against the background wallpaper to look like they’re transparent. Transparent App Icons lets you create images to use as Shortcuts and bookmarks on your Home Screen, so you can achieve previously impossible Home Screen layouts and custom icon spacing, using a simulated transparent background. Features: - Upload wallpaper images and automatically create icons with the correct cut-out so that icons blend with the wallpaper seamlessly - Automatically crop uploaded images to your phone’s wallpaper size - Quickly create icon images for entire home screen pages - Overlay transparent images to create a see-through logo effect: 2200+ logos and symbols included in the app - Transparent App Icons is a one time purchase, paid up front: no subscriptions, no selling data, no need to log in - Absolutely never, ever, ever any ads There’s no corporation trying to extract ad dollars here - I’m just one developer, and I hope Transparent App Icons can help you create creative and aesthetic iOS 14 home screen layouts! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at support@transparenticons.app, or on Twitter at @TransparentIcns - thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ・ (Yidget) at Free against Transparent App Icons's $1.99. ・ (Yidget) also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (65% vs 49%). Transparent App Icons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
・ (Yidget) is free to download; Transparent App Icons costs $1.99 up front. ・ (Yidget) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Transparent App Icons asks for nothing beyond the download.
・ (Yidget) holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ・ (Yidget) has 1.5K ratings behind it against 158, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of ・ (Yidget)'s written reviews are positive against 49% of Transparent App Icons's.
・ (Yidget) ships an update every 3 weeks, Transparent App Icons every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | ・ (Yidget) | Transparent App Icons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better | 3.5 (158 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.9% of reviews — better | 49.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 158 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #15 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MoriRanMaru | Noah Gilmore |
Customer experience
・ (Yidget)
Transparent App Icons
User reviews
・ (Yidget)
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very nice
- 👍 Good as expected
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 High quality
- 👍 Fantastic app with an almost invisible name!
Room to improve
- 🐛 bring back individual icons!!
- 🐛 iPhone17だとうまくいかない
- 🐛 Won't work anymore
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 IOS 26
Transparent App Icons
From 158 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐️ Awesome app
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Great for customizing home screen
- 💰 Worth the money
Room to improve
- 🐛 Alignment issues with new iOS versions
- 🚫 Does not work on iPad or iPhone SE
- 📷 Low quality exported icons
- 🔀 Complicated workflow
Bugs and requests
・ (Yidget)
Reported bugs
10 issues- dock icons doesn't appear to me
- All I get is a yellow widget.
- Useless app
- 變成一片黑色無法透明更新問題
- 小工具無法編輯
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- Does not work at all
- App crashes everytime image saving!!!!!!
- Can't find the blank app or transparent app, so I tried this one. Sad, wasted my time though. Such a hassle to use and adjust.
- the widget color and background wallpaper. But after understanding how to it works i got it fixed. We simply have to take a screenshot of the wallpaper after its been set on the phone background and then use that screenshot to make the widgets
- the widget is always a bit brighter than anything behind it, so you can see the border all around it.
Requested features
10 requests- I can't use shorts cut
- 螢幕縮放模式
- 方塊和wallpaper有色差
- 色塊有色差
- ios18が来ても便利
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- 隠しアイコンがなくなった
- Иконки
- 名稱移除
- Dark Mode
- Themes support
Transparent App Icons
Reported bugs
3 issues- Icons not aligning properly on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Cropping issues on iPhone 13 mini
- App freezes when trying to add multiple icons
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for iOS 26
- Allow uploading own icons
- Add widget customization
- Save and load icon layouts
In-app purchases
・ (Yidget)
- Pro$4.99
Transparent App Icons
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ・ (Yidget) free?
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Which has better reviews, ・ (Yidget) or Transparent App Icons?
Do ・ (Yidget) or Transparent App Icons have ads?
Which is updated more often, ・ (Yidget) or Transparent App Icons?
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