Comparison

Minipaper vs SUBCAM

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/

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SUBCAM

Features
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SUBCAM is a camera that burns live captions right into your video as you shoot. Speak while recording and your words appear on screen in real time — and they are baked into the saved video. No editing, no exporting to another app. KEY FEATURES - Live Speech Captions On-device speech recognition turns your voice into subtitles the moment you speak — captions appear live even before you start recording. Supports Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, and more. - On-Device Translation (iOS 18 or later) Speak in one language, caption in another. Real-time translation runs entirely on device, no internet connection required. Switch it on with one tap from the capture screen. - AI Scene Captions Point the camera at anything and AI describes what it sees, as short words or full sentences. Bring your own API key for Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, connect a local LLM, or use Apple Intelligence fully on device. You can even choose the exact model for each provider. - Cinematic Looks Switch between Standard, CinemaScope (2.39:1 letterbox), Cinematic tone, and Monochrome with one tap, right above the shutter. Letterbox color is customizable. - Style Captions While You Shoot Tap the "Aa" button to change caption size, position (top / center / bottom / danmaku barrage), and font — with a live preview behind the panel. Five fonts including Japanese Gothic and Mincho. - A Camera That Feels Familiar Standard camera layout: big shutter, recent-clip thumbnail, 0.5x/1x lens switch, pinch zoom, tap to focus. Non-essential controls fade away while recording so you can focus on the shot. FREE - 1080p 30fps recording (with a small #SUBCAM watermark) - All caption features: speech captions, AI captions, translation - All looks, caption styling, and fonts SUBCAM PRO (one-time purchase) - 4K and 60fps recording - HDR video - Exposure adjustment - Removes the #SUBCAM watermark Perfect for vlogs, street snaps, interviews, travel videos, language learning, and accessibility — shoot once, share immediately, captions included.

Screenshots

Minipaper4 screens
SUBCAM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Minipaper at Free against SUBCAM's $0.49. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

Minipaper is free to download; SUBCAM costs $0.49 up front. Minipaper sells 21 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and SUBCAM sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minipaper ships an update fortnightly, SUBCAM every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Minipaper versus SUBCAM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinipaperSUBCAM
PriceFree — better$0.49
Rating4.5 (87 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInsula Technology Inc.Daisaku Harasaki

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
1 purchases

SUBCAM

One-time1
  • SUBCAM Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Minipaper free?
Minipaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SUBCAM free?
SUBCAM costs $0.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Minipaper or SUBCAM have ads?
Neither Minipaper nor SUBCAM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minipaper or SUBCAM?
Minipaper ships an update fortnightly, and SUBCAM every 4 weeks. Most recently, Minipaper was updated on October 24, 2026 and SUBCAM on October 9, 2026.

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