WallpaperZ vs Dotwall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WallpaperZ
Discover stunning, high-resolution wallpapers crafted by global designers. Enjoy an ad-free experience with unique haptic navigation and the ability to zoom and customize sections of each image. Save your favorites across multiple platforms.
- Weekly 8K wallpaper packs
- Manually crafted by designers
- Higher than 8K resolution
- Zoomable and customizable cutouts
- Ad-free experience
- Cross-platform cloud collection
- Haptic interface
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Exclusive 8K wallpapers, hand-crafted by real artists. No ads. No subscription required. Make your lock screen and home screen your own with over 3,000 backgrounds. Download the first wallpaper in every pack free forever — no account needed. ORIGINAL ART. NEW EVERY WEEK. • Discover artwork from 39 designers, commissioned directly from each creator and made exclusively for WallpaperZ. • Every pack credits its designer, with an in-app profile where you can explore their work. • Each pack is one theme explored ten ways: a coordinated collection for your lock screen and home screen. • Two new packs arrive every week — 20 new wallpapers to discover. BEYOND HD AND 4K • Every wallpaper measures 7,680 × 7,680 pixels — around 59 megapixels. • The square format gives you room to choose different crops for your phone or tablet. • Explore different parts of the same image for a fresh look, or download the full 8K file for your desktop. • Our in-house, patent-pending resizing system automatically adapts your chosen crop to your device's native resolution, so you don't need to store the full 8K image every time. • Choose the view you love, and we handle the sizing. FIND YOUR STYLE • Browse abstract art, minimalist backgrounds and dark AMOLED wallpapers. • Explore nature, space, landscapes and 3D designs, alongside gradients, retro styles and monochrome artwork. • Discover seasonal backgrounds for spring, summer, autumn and winter, plus collections for Halloween, Christmas and more. • Search for a theme you love or explore the whole collection. FREE TO START. UNLOCK WHAT YOU LOVE. • Unlock full packs with CoinZ, WallpaperZ's in-app currency. • Buy CoinZ through one-off purchases, or earn them through daily rewards. • Spend them on the packs you choose. • CoinZ never expire, and no subscription is required. DESIGNED AROUND THE ART • Explore collections through WallpaperZ's unique, patent-pending interface. • Spin each pack's thumbwheel to preview all ten wallpapers, with a satisfying haptic click as you move. • A clean, ad-free experience keeps the focus on the artwork. YOUR COLLECTION, ACROSS DEVICES • Your favorites, unlocked packs and wallpaper history — including wallpapers you've applied or downloaded — are saved to your account and synced across devices. • Sign in on another supported device and your collection is there, ready to explore. • Use Apple, Google or an emailed sign-in link — no password to remember. Find your next wallpaper. Make your screen your own. • Terms & Conditions: https://legal.wallpaperzapp.com/terms.html • Privacy Policy: https://legal.wallpaperzapp.com/policy.html • By using our app, you agree to Apple’s Standard License Agreement. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dotwall
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Dotwall turns your lock screen into a dot matrix. Type anything, up to 90 characters, and Dotwall draws it in dots at this iPhone's exact pixel size. Or let the dots be the year, one for every day, with today lit up in your colour. Or your life in weeks, one dot for every week you have had and every week still ahead. Three kinds of wallpaper: Words: any text, drawn as a dot-matrix wallpaper. Year: 12 columns for the months, 31 rows for the days. Past days lit, today in the accent colour. Tap any dot to read its date. Life: 52 weeks across, 60 to 100 years down. The current week is the coloured one. Tap a dot to read its week. Your birthday stays on this iPhone. Eight looks: Halftone, Board, Quiet, Pixel, Gradient, Neon, Flipdot and Stipple. Any ground colour, from black, graphite and navy to paper and cream, and any dot colour, from a swatch or the system colour picker. Eight accents, and sixteen app icons to match. The preview is your lock screen. The date, the clock and the two bottom buttons are drawn over the wallpaper, so you see the finished screen before you save. Drag the dots up or down to move them out from under the clock, pinch to size them, swipe sideways for the next look, tap to hide the clock. The Place tray has Move and Size sliders if you prefer those. Save draws the wallpaper at this iPhone's native pixel size and adds it to Photos as a PNG. Then Photos, Share, Use as Wallpaper. iOS does not let an app set the wallpaper itself; Photos is the two-tap hand-off. Keep Year and Life current with Shortcuts. Dotwall gives Shortcuts an action, Get Today's Dotwall, that returns today's image at this iPhone's size. A daily automation at 00:05 that runs Get Today's Dotwall and then Set Wallpaper Photo keeps today's dot moving. The recipe is in Settings. A Home Screen widget, Year in dots, in small, medium and large, drawn in your look and ground colour and redrawn every day. Private by design. Dotwall has no account, no sync and no networking code at all. Your words, your birthday and your colours stay on this iPhone, in the app. The wallpaper is drawn here and saved to your own Photos with add-only access: Dotwall can add photos, never read them. No subscription, no in-app purchases. Requires iOS 26. iPhone only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dotwall at none against WallpaperZ's 8. WallpaperZ's advantage is iOS requirement (16.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. WallpaperZ sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Dotwall asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | WallpaperZ | Dotwall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (257 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 257 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZONEofTECH LTD | Shubham Dolas |
Bugs and requests
WallpaperZ
Reported bugs
3 issues- Wallpapers not downloading properly
- Incompatibility issues with older iOS versions
- Wallpaper sizing problems on certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for iPad and desktop devices
- Provide an option to purchase individual wallpaper packs
- Implement a daily login system to unlock new free wallpapers
- Offer more diverse wallpaper styles and themes
- Improve wallpaper download and syncing functionality
Dotwall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WallpaperZ
- Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
- Yearly subscription$29.991 Year
- CoinZ Starter Bundle$0.99
- CoinZ Medium Bundle$4.99
- CoinZ Large Bundle$9.99
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- CoinZ Large Plus Bundle$19.99
- CoinZ Mega Bundle$49.99
- Lifetime Access$69.99
Dotwall
No in-app purchases









