ShowCuts vs HTML Wallpaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShowCuts
Customize your device's home screen with a vast library of themes, widgets, and icon overlays. Discover unique wallpapers and create stunning mockups to personalize your phone's appearance. Get started easily with built-in tutorials and community support.
- Over 400 themes for home screen customization
- ShowLive themes with weather and battery info
- ShowAE for custom icon overlays
- ScreenshotSL for mockup creation
- Curated wallpaper collection
- Widgy widget integration
- Community support and tutorials
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• Being unique has never been so easy! Choose a theme for the ShowCuts App, download it, and apply it with ShowLive Shortcut. With over 400 themes and growing daily we have a theme to suit everyone's taste. From minimal Lockscreen themes that show the current weather condition to elaborate five-day forecast, moon phase, current weather, battery level, weather overlays... The list goes on! • Everything you need to know All the instructions on how to get started are in the App. Browse the How-To section and discover how to get going on your first ShowLive theme. There are videos too if that's what you prefer! • The Show Shortcuts have got you covered There's more than ShowLive. We have ShowAE and ScreenshotSL shortcuts included as well. Use ShowAE to add custom overlays to your icons to make them pop! Once you're happy with your ShowLive set up and you've themed your icons, finish it all off with one of the Mockups available in our ScreenshotSL shortcut. • Tired of the same Wallpaper? ShowCuts includes a dedicated section for Wallpapers from some of the best Wallpaper Artists out there. Filter by Artist or Colour to find that perfect Wallpaper for your iPhone. • Widgy widgets make it your home screen We all know Widgy is the best widget creation app on the AppStore so its an obvious choice for us to include the amazing creations from the Widgy community right inside the ShowCuts app. Filter by Creator and widget size to download and install your perfect widget in the Widgy app. • Join our growing community We have an amazing community on Discord who are there to help, discuss and create new ShowLive themes. 24hr support right there 7 days a week!
HTML Wallpaper
Transform your device's look by displaying any HTML webpage as a live wallpaper. Integrate real-time weather data and access a community for pre-made themes or to create your own.
- Set HTML pages as live wallpaper
- Display real-time weather data
- Access community themes
- Create custom HTML wallpapers
- Supports lock and home screens
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Introducing HTML Wallpaper - Make your device appearance unique. Bring any html side as a wallpaper to your lockscreen or homescreen. You can include weather API calls to bring actual weather data on screen. Join our iNNOVATION discord community (18.000 members) to download out of the box themes or write your own Wallpaper.html file. For HTML Wallpaper to work, you need to download 2 shortcuts, one for lockscreen and one for homescreen. Download-links are available within app. Kindly follow the short in-app-guideline to change your wallpaper on your device. Enjoy. t3chn3ric
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HTML Wallpaper at 5.0 against ShowCuts's 4.4. HTML Wallpaper also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). ShowCuts's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. ShowCuts sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. HTML Wallpaper asks for nothing beyond the download.
HTML Wallpaper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowCuts has 63 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShowCuts | HTML Wallpaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sean Kelly | Eric Roembach |
Customer experience
ShowCuts
HTML Wallpaper
In-app purchases
ShowCuts
- Bronze Donation$0.99
- Silver Donation$2.99
- Gold Donation$4.99
HTML Wallpaper
No in-app purchases
