AWTRIX 3 vs Xcreen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AWTRIX 3
Manage your AWTRIX 3 device with ease from your smartphone. Adjust settings, screen mirror, and access an exclusive icon database to create custom static or animated icons. View your icons and access your AppLoop directly.
- Adjust device settings
- Screen mirroring
- Exclusive icon database access
- Create static and animated icons
- Access AppLoop
- View icons
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By purchasing this app, you play a crucial role in supporting the development of Awtrix Light! Manage your Awtrix with unparalleled ease straight from your smartphone. With this intuitive app, get complete control over your device's features: - Adjust settings such as text color, app transitions and much more. - Screenmirror - Exclusive access to the AWTRIX light icon database - Create static or animated icons - Access your AppLoop - View your icons
Xcreen
This app provides a distraction-free environment for cleaning your device's screen. It prevents accidental taps and unwanted actions while offering customizable backgrounds to highlight smudges and grime.
- Distraction-free cleaning environment
- Prevents accidental taps
- Customizable background colors
- Adjustable exit control placement
- Keeps display awake during cleaning
- Supports portrait and landscape
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See the mess. Wipe without the worry. Cleaning your screen should be simple. But when the display is asleep, dust and grime can be difficult to see. Touching it wakes the lock screen, where wiping can enter passcode digits, activate controls, or risk an unwanted emergency call. On an unlocked device, wiping can open apps, move icons, or trigger actions you never intended. In all of these situations, there is also no clear, evenly lit background to make dust, fingerprints, smudges, and grime stand out. Xcreen replaces those distractions with a solid cleaning surface that makes the mess easier to spot, whether you are giving your screen a quick wipe or a deeper clean. Ordinary taps inside Xcreen do nothing, so you can clean without worrying about accidental taps. CHOOSE YOUR CLEANING SCREEN • Select from six carefully chosen background colors • Create a custom solid color • Use different colors to reveal different dust, smudges, and streaks • Save your preferred color automatically PLACE YOUR EXIT CONTROL • Position the X in any corner • Keep it away from the area you are cleaning • Hold the X for one second when you are finished • Avoid exiting through an ordinary accidental tap • Save your preferred exit corner automatically MADE FOR CLEANING • Keeps the display awake while cleaning • Supports portrait and landscape orientations • Works on iPhone and iPad • Remembers your cleaning preferences XCREEN PRO Upgrade once with no subscription. • Remove the banner ad from Home • Optionally have Xcreen open directly to your cleaning screen • Start cleaning mode with your saved background color and exit corner already selected Xcreen prevents accidental taps inside the app; system gestures may still be enabled on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Xcreen at Free against AWTRIX 3's $3.99. Xcreen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3). AWTRIX 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Xcreen is free to download; AWTRIX 3 costs $3.99 up front. Xcreen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AWTRIX 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Xcreen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AWTRIX 3 has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | AWTRIX 3 | Xcreen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephan Muehl | Slade Utley |
Customer experience
AWTRIX 3
Xcreen
In-app purchases
AWTRIX 3
No in-app purchases
Xcreen
- Xcreen Pro$1.99









