Comparison

Minipaper vs Large Text Widget

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Minipaper

Easily create unique, minimalistic wallpapers for your phone with a variety of styles. Adjust settings to personalize your background and save or share your creations.

Highlights
  • Minimalistic wallpaper creation
  • Multiple style options (gradients, Arch, Iridescent)
  • Easy customization
  • Automatic resizing for perfect fit
  • Save and share wallpapers
Features
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Minipaper is a wallpaper maker for iPhone and iPad. Pick a style, change whatever you want, and export a custom Lock Screen or Home Screen wallpaper that fits your screen exactly. No design skills, no templates to fight with, and no two exports alike. Over 30 styles, every one of them built to be taken apart and rebuilt. STICKERS Put anything on your wallpaper. Start from the RetroTech pack or a curated set of SF Symbols, type your own with text and emoji, or drop in a photo and watch subject isolation lift it straight off the background. Drag, pinch and rotate to place, resize from the corners, then finish with a clean white border or a holographic foil. Select several at once, copy a layout from one design to another, or hit sticker-bomb and let them scatter. OBJECTS, NOT JUST GRADIENTS An iPod with a click wheel and anodized case, worn from pristine to pocket-scratched. A vinyl record. A handheld console. An AC remote, a CRT monitor, an airplane seat-back screen. The skeuomorphic styles are laid out so their screens sit exactly where your Lock Screen clock lands, and the whole phone reads as the object. GRADIENTS, GLASS AND SHAPES Aurora, Mesh Gradient, Pro Gradient and Japanese Gradient. Liquid Glass, Fluted Glass, Legacy Glass and Glass Bricks. Arch, Bento, Capsules, Plateau, Rects, Grid, Notes, Text, Tide, Topography, Mountains, Polka, Prism, Calendar and Vision OS. IPHONE AND IPAD The same app on both, laid out for each. On iPad the browse list gets a sidebar, the skeuomorphic styles keep their true proportions in the middle of the canvas instead of stretching, and the controls stay in reach. Your saved designs follow you across. MAKE IT ACTUALLY YOURS Every style opens up. Colours, layout, texture, wear, type, the lot. Nudge one setting or rebuild the thing from scratch. Save your designs and come back to them later, because a wallpaper is never quite finished. EXPORTS THAT FIT Wallpapers render at your device's full resolution and follow your device's real display corner radius, so nothing is cropped, squashed or resized to fit. Export a still or a Live Photo, save it to Photos, and set it from there. ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW New styles land regularly, along with collabs with apps and designers we like. Everything you have already made keeps working. Minipaper speaks English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and Arabic. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Large Text Widget

Display large, customizable text on your home screen, lock screen, and dynamic island. Read text aloud with speech synthesis and personalize fonts and colors. Offers whiteboard functionality and input history.

Highlights
  • iOS 16 Live Activities
  • Dynamic Island support
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Home screen widgets
  • Text to Speech
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Whiteboard handwriting
Features
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A large text app that supports iOS16 live activities. Dynamic islands, home and lock screen widgets available. All features are completely free to use. - iOS16 Live Activity - Dynamic island - iOS16 lock screen widget - iOS14 home screen widget - Text magnifying display and reading aloud - Background color and rich font settings - Flip screen up/down/left/right and flash - Handwriting on the whiteboard - Text input history and so on...

Screenshots

Minipaper4 screens
Large Text Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Large Text Widget at none against Minipaper's 21. Large Text Widget also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 48%). Minipaper's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Minipaper sells 21 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Large Text Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Minipaper against 4.5 for Large Text Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 32 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Minipaper's written reviews are positive against 75% of Large Text Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minipaper ships an update fortnightly, Large Text Widget every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Minipaper versus Large Text Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinipaperLarge Text Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (85 ratings)4.5 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews48.3% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings85 — better32
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInsula Technology Inc.FugaPiyo Inc.

Customer experience

Minipaper

All ratings85 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral9.4%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral10.3%
Negative41.4%

Large Text Widget

All ratings32 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral9.4%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

21 purchases

Minipaper

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Yearly - Save 80%+$19.991 Year
One-time19
  • Unlock Topography$5.99
  • Unlock Airplane Mode$5.99
  • Remove Ads$5.99
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  • Unlock Calendar Style$8.99
  • Unlock AC Remote$8.99
  • Unlock VisionOS$8.99
  • Unlock Plateau$8.99
  • Unlock Mountains$9.99
  • Unlock Prism Style$12.99
  • Unlock Tide Style$12.99
  • Unlock iPod Style$12.99
  • Unlock Notes$12.99
  • Unlock Aurora$12.99
  • Unlock Pro Gradient$12.99
  • Unlock Ultra$12.99
  • Unlock Pocket Entertainment$12.99
  • Unlock Fluted Glass$12.99
  • Unlock Vinyl$14.99
  • Lifetime Minipaper Pro$29.99
None

Large Text Widget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minipaper free?
Minipaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Large Text Widget free?
Large Text Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minipaper or Large Text Widget?
Minipaper and Large Text Widget are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 85 and 32 ratings respectively.
Do Minipaper or Large Text Widget have ads?
Large Text Widget shows ads; Minipaper does not.
Which is updated more often, Minipaper or Large Text Widget?
Minipaper ships an update fortnightly, and Large Text Widget every 2 months. Most recently, Minipaper was updated on October 21, 2026 and Large Text Widget on October 13, 2026.

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