Transparent App Icons vs Mixter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Mixter
Easily create stunning gradient backgrounds for your Instagram Stories. Enhance your visual content with beautiful color transitions and personalize your posts beyond the default options.
- Custom gradient backgrounds
- Instagram Story personalization
- Beautiful color transitions
- Enhance visual content
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Personalize your Instagram Stories - replace the default background with a beautiful color gradient!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mixter at 100% against Transparent App Icons's 49%. Mixter also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Transparent App Icons's advantage is ratings volume (158 vs 2) and chart position (#19 vs #133). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Transparent App Icons costs $1.99 and Mixter $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mixter holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transparent App Icons has 158 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Transparent App Icons's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mixter's.
Transparent App Icons ships an update every 2 weeks, Mixter every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Transparent App Icons | Mixter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (158 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #19 — better | #133 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Gilmore | Minterly Limited |
Customer experience
Transparent App Icons
Mixter
Bugs and requests
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
Mixter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Transparent App Icons
No in-app purchases
Mixter
No in-app purchases
Questions
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