Wallpapers Maker + vs Freckle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wallpapers Maker +
Easily create personalized device backgrounds using your own photos. Generate unique wallpapers with image cropping and beautiful gradients. Preview your creations instantly and save them in pixel-perfect resolution for your device.
- Create custom wallpapers
- Use personal photos
- Image cropping
- Generate gradients
- Live preview
- One-tap save
- Pixel-perfect resolution
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Make custom wallpaper easily and personalize your device background. Wallpaper Maker helps you create your own unique wallpapers from your favorite photos, use image crop, generate beautiful gradients, and more. Check how your wallpaper fits without leaving the app, and one-tap to save it to Photos. You will get a pixel-perfect image for the resolution of your device. It lets you personalize your phone or tablet the way you like. The app depends on ratings and reviews to succeed. I love hearing your ideas and feedback. Please rate Wallpaper Maker. It also will help others find great creative experiences – and will help me build this app better. I would really appreciate that.
Freckle
Easily design unique polka dot wallpapers for your iPhone. Customize icons, colors, and gradients to create beautiful homescreens. Support indie app development with optional upgrades.
- Create polka dot wallpapers
- Shuffle presets
- Choose custom icons
- Select colors and gradients
- Support indie development
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Freckle is a fast, easy and fun way to create beautiful polk-dot wallpapers for your iPhone. You can shuffle between a range of different presets until you find one that works for you, or purchase Freckle+ to unlock all the customisation features. Freckle+ lets you: - Choose from a wide variety of icons - Choose your own colours and gradients - Support indie app development That’s it! It’s a simple app, designed to do one thing well.
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Verdict
Wallpapers Maker + and Freckle both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Freckle's written reviews are positive against 71% of Wallpapers Maker +'s. Wallpapers Maker +'s advantage is ratings volume (141 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Wallpapers Maker + sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Freckle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Freckle holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wallpapers Maker + has 141 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Wallpapers Maker +'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Freckle's.
Wallpapers Maker + ships an update every 4 months, Freckle every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wallpapers Maker + | Freckle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (141 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexey Plekhanov | Ben McCarthy |
Customer experience
Wallpapers Maker +
Freckle
In-app purchases
Wallpapers Maker +
- Development Support Tip$0.99
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
- Giant Tip$9.99
Freckle
- Freckle+$2.99
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