Real Halftone 2 vs Wallshader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Halftone 2
This app generates halftone dots for photomechanical printing. Users can select dot shapes and adjust CMYK color screen angles to create unique halftone photographs, faithfully reproducing moiré patterns.
- Generates halftone dots
- Adjustable CMYK color screen angles
- Faithful moiré pattern reproduction
- Selectable dot shapes
- Adjust CMY gray replacement with black
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Real Halftone 2 is a full-fledged app that generates halftone dots for photomechanical printing. You can select a dot shape and adjust the screen angle of each CMYK color to create a wide variety of halftone photographs. Moiré patterns that appear depending on screen angle combinations are faithfully reproduced as well. [Features] - By adjusting the angle at which the halftone dot screens of each CMYK color are overlapped, the occurrence of moiré can be suppressed. - You can adjust the amount of CMY gray components replaced with black during color separation. - Detailed settings related to halftone dot printing are also available, such as dot shape and screen ruling.
Wallshader
Create unique live and animated wallpapers using GPU shaders or your own photos. Design on your iPhone or iPad with a full suite of editing tools. Save and share your creations easily.
- GPU shader-based wallpaper creation
- Photo-to-wallpaper filters
- Live Photo export for Lock Screen
- Precision editing tools
- iCloud sync for library
- Cross-device iPad optimization
- Export for iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
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Wallshader is a wallpaper design studio in your pocket. Don't scroll through someone else's wallpaper collection. Make your own: pick a GPU shader and shape it into something that's yours, or take a photo you love and dissolve it into dithering, halftone dots, or fluted glass. Save it as a still, or as a Live Photo that animates on your Lock Screen. A MOVING LOCK SCREEN, MADE BY YOU Animated shaders save as Live Photos. Set one as your Lock Screen wallpaper from Photos and it comes alive every time you wake your iPhone. A built-in visual guide walks you through the setup the first time. And it's easy on your battery: a Live Photo plays only for a moment when you wake the phone. Nothing runs in the background, and nothing renders while the phone is in your pocket. A REAL DESIGN STUDIO, NOT A FILTER APP - A growing collection of GPU shaders rendered in real time on your device: mesh gradients, grain gradients, metaballs, voronoi, warp, spirals, god rays, noise fields and more - Photo filters that turn your own images into wallpapers: dithering, halftone dots, halftone CMYK, water, fluted glass, paper texture - Photos-style editing: Shader, Adjust, Frame, and Colors tabs over a live Metal preview - Precision ruler sliders with tick-snapping and haptics - Curated color palettes applied by color role: one tap recolors the whole wallpaper coherently - Presets, Randomize, and full undo and redo - Photo wallpapers: bring images from Photos or Files, frame them with pan, zoom, and rotation, choose Original, B&W, or custom colors - Pinch into a full-screen preview at any time YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE - A Photos-style grid library with Favorites, full-screen browsing, and multi-select - iCloud sync (optional, no account, no sign-in): your entire library stays automatically in sync with Wallshader for Mac and between your iPhone and iPad. Design at your desk, finish on the couch. - Share any wallpaper as a tiny .wallshader file over AirDrop or Messages. The recipient taps to import and remix it, and Quick Look shows a real render right in Messages, Mail, and Files. - Export at iPhone, iPad, or Desktop sizes DESIGNED FOR iPAD, TOO On iPad, Wallshader becomes a landscape design surface: a wide canvas with the preview front and center, tool rails on either side, and a detail strip below. Closer to a desktop studio than a phone app. PRIVATE AND NATIVE 100% Swift and Metal. No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection. A wallpaper is a few kilobytes of parameters, not a downloaded video. The only network use is syncing your own library to your own iCloud. FAIR PRICING Free to try: keep up to 7 wallpapers with every editing feature unlocked. Wallshader Pro is a single one-time purchase, and it unlocks unlimited wallpapers on iPhone, iPad, and Mac together. No subscription, ever. Shader effects powered by Paper Shaders (paper.design).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Real Halftone 2 at none against Wallshader's 1. Real Halftone 2 also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Wallshader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Real Halftone 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Real Halftone 2 against 5.0 for Wallshader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Real Halftone 2 has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Real Halftone 2 | Wallshader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tomoki Kobayashi | Osman Koycu |
Customer experience
Real Halftone 2
Wallshader
In-app purchases
Real Halftone 2
No in-app purchases
Wallshader
- Wallshader Pro$8.99
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