Wallaroo vs Fineliner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wallaroo
Discover and set exciting new wallpapers weekly for your iOS device. Easily customize your lock and home screens with exclusive content, from pop culture to nature. Interactive widgets let you display your favorites directly on your home screen.
- New wallpapers weekly
- Easy lock/home screen setup
- Interactive home screen widgets
- Exclusive content
- No ads or data collection
- Diverse categories
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Wallaroo is the best way to put fun and exciting wallpapers on a screen near you! Plus you get a new wallpaper every week! ⁕ Quick and Easy Wallaroo's amazing shortcut takes the hassle out of setting your iOS lock and home screen wallpaper. Pick a wallpaper, tap a button, and go! ⁕ Latest and Greatest Wallaroo adds new and exclusive content each week so there's always a perfect wallpaper at your fingertips. You'll get new wallpaper to fit the season, to tout your favorite new show, or suit your mood. ⁕ You're Unique, and Your Wallpaper Is Too! From popular culture topics like movies, anime, and television to beautiful abstract and nature-inspired wallpapers, there's something for everyone. ⁕ Interactive Widgets Put your favorite Wallaroo wallpapers right on your Home Screen. Add multiple widgets and sizes and configure them independently! ⁕ No Ads, Only Wallpapers Enjoy Wallaroo safe in the knowledge we don't collect your information, serve you ads, or push sketchy schemes. Just great FREE content from trusted developers. -- Wallaroo uses auto-renewing subscriptions. The subscription provides access to locked content and new releases each week. The subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period and will be charged through your iTunes account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Terms of Use: https://wallaroo.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://wallaroo.app/privacy
Fineliner
Create hand-drawn notes, doodles, and drawings with a powerful yet playful notebook app. Customize the interface with your own handwriting and enjoy vector graphics, layers, and real-time collaboration. Unlock additional colors, pens, and templates with one-time purchases.
- Vector drawing for sharp scaling
- Customizable interface with handwriting
- Layers and automatic shape recognition
- Handwriting search
- Real-time collaboration
- Notebook locking with Face/Touch ID
- Multiple export formats
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A simple, fun, yet powerful notebook for writing, note-taking, doodling, and drawing, optimized for Apple Pencil. No ads, subscriptions, accounts, or logins! Draw the app’s interface yourself, and optionally even make your own handwriting font, so most of what you see is your own writing. Discover powerful features behind the playful UI: - All-vector drawing so you can zoom in, scale, and rotate everything and it stays perfectly sharp - Dark mode (really!), including your notes - Draw with layers and automatic shape recognition - Create your own headers and links for navigation - Search your handwriting and image descriptions - Share notebooks to collaborate with others in real time - Lock notebooks so they require Face ID or Touch ID to open - Export as SVG, PDF, or images… and even export your custom font as a TTF The business model is simple: - Unlimited notebooks and pages - Fast, free, private sync and collaboration with iCloud - You can buy more colors, pen widths, and templates if you'd like, as one-time, family-shared purchases that you keep forever That's it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Fineliner at free with in-app purchases against Wallaroo's subscription. Fineliner also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 58%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Wallaroo's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Wallaroo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Fineliner sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Wallaroo against 4.7 for Fineliner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 215 and 187 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Wallaroo's written reviews are positive against 92% of Fineliner's.
Wallaroo ships an update every 2 months, Fineliner every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Wallaroo | Fineliner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (215 ratings) — better | 4.7 (187 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.8% of reviews | 91.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 215 — better | 187 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #61 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Iconfactory | Overcast Radio, LLC |
Customer experience
Wallaroo
Fineliner
Bugs and requests
Wallaroo
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes when sharing
- Wallpaper not changing after install
- Shortcut installation loop
- Share button crashes app
- App crashes on Mac Studio when sharing
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- Doesn't work with Focus settings
- Share button crashes app consistently
- Right-click support missing
Requested features
4 requests- More frequent wallpaper additions
- Higher resolution downloads (5k)
- More free wallpapers available
- No watermarks on free wallpapers
Fineliner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wallaroo
- Wallaroo Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Wallaroo Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
Fineliner
- Bolds$4.99
- Tones$4.99
- Widgets$4.99
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- Deluxe Pack$12.99





