Dudel Draw vs Wallshader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dudel Draw
This app provides a daily unique shape to inspire your drawings. Transform basic forms into art by sketching directly on them, and explore creations from other users. It's designed to spark creativity for artists of all levels.
- Daily curated shapes
- Random shape mode
- Draw and sketch directly
- Flip and rotate shapes
- Share artwork with friends
- Explore other artists' creations
Read full descriptionHide full description
Apple Design Award Finalist for Fun & Delight 2024 Every day, you get a shape. What your brain sees is entirely up to you. Maybe it becomes a cat. Maybe it becomes a spaceship. Maybe it becomes something unique to you. That's the whole point. Dudel Draw is a daily drawing challenge for people who love to doodle, want to get back into drawing, or just need a little creative spark in their day. No pressure, no rules; just you, a shape, and a few minutes of pure fun. Flip it. Rotate it. Zoom in. Draw. Then download your art and share it with friends to see who has the most creative mind in the group! Privacy Policy: https://www.sillylittleapps.com/dudel-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.sillylittleapps.com/dudel-terms-of-service
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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).
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dudel Draw at none against Wallshader's 1. Dudel Draw also leads on ratings volume (563 vs 2). Wallshader's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dudel Draw asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wallshader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dudel Draw has 563 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Dudel Draw's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wallshader's.
| Parameter | Dudel Draw | Wallshader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (563 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 563 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| 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 | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silly Little Apps LLC | Osman Koycu |
Customer experience
Dudel Draw
Wallshader
Bugs and requests
Dudel Draw
Reported bugs
2 issues- Tapping on shape doesn't produce dots
- Navigating away from drawing screen causes loss of work
Requested features
5 requests- Add eraser tool
- Implement palm rejection
- Allow for 90-degree rotation
- Add ability to save and share drawings
- Expand shape library and options
Wallshader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dudel Draw
No in-app purchases
Wallshader
- Wallshader Pro$8.99
Questions
Is Dudel Draw free?
Is Wallshader free?
Which has better reviews, Dudel Draw or Wallshader?
Do Dudel Draw or Wallshader have ads?
Other comparisons















