Comparison

Smooth vs Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen

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

Head to head
About

Smooth

Features
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Your imagination is the limit - quickly and easily create satisfying, smooth wallpapers for your iPhone, or share with friends. Fun and creative tools makes unique, mesmerising results with little effort.

About

Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen

Design personalized lock screens and home screen widgets for your iPhone. Utilize a device-accurate canvas with live guides, add photos, text, stickers, and AI-generated elements. Save and sync your creations across devices.

Highlights
  • Device-accurate canvas with live guides
  • Photo and gradient backgrounds
  • Text and sticker customization
  • AI image generation
  • Customizable Home Screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
  • Watermark removal
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Make a lock screen that's actually yours. Linen is a playful wallpaper studio for your iPhone. Design your lock screen on a true-to-device canvas with live guides for the real clock, widgets, and buttons, so nothing important ever gets covered. Start from a photo, a color, or a gradient, add words, stickers, and a little AI, then save it and set it as your wallpaper. Design matching Home Screen widgets too, in every size, so your whole screen feels like one piece. No account. No sign up. Just open it and start making. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Design on a device-accurate canvas with live clock, widget, and button guides • Drop in your own photos as a full screen background or as floating layers • Add text and resize, rotate, and move every element with simple gestures • Choose any solid color or gradient background • Design custom Home Screen widgets in small, medium, and large • Save your designs to a gallery and reopen them anytime • Sync across your devices with iCloud FREE TO USE Building and saving wallpapers and widgets is free. Linen Premium unlocks the extras below. LINEN PREMIUM (subscription required) These features need a Linen Premium subscription: • Live Home Screen widgets: show your designs as real widgets on your Home Screen, in any size • Remove watermark: export your wallpaper clean, in full resolution • AI image generation: create original art from a description • All fonts and weights: the complete type library • Drop shadows: add soft, adjustable shadows to any layer • One-tap filters at save: mono, sepia, vivid, fade, instant, vignette • Full sticker and doodle pack: hundreds of stickers, recolor your favorites Linen Premium is available as a weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. You can restore a previous purchase at any time. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Made with love in Berlin. Questions or ideas? Email info@deadpixel-studio.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://deadpixel-studio.com/en/terms_of_use Privacy Policy: https://deadpixel-studio.com/en/privacy_policy

Screenshots

Smooth4 screens
Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Smooth at weekly against Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen's every 3 weeks. Smooth also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Smooth sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smooth ships an update weekly, Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Smooth versus Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmoothWallpaper & Widget Maker Linen
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCodetouch Ventures Sweden ABDeadPixel Studio UG (haftungsbeschrankt)

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Smooth

One-time2
  • Product Hunt Launch Special$0.99
  • Remove Watermark$0.99
2 purchases

Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Smooth free?
Smooth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen free?
Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smooth or Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen have ads?
Neither Smooth nor Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smooth or Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen?
Smooth ships an update weekly, and Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen every 3 weeks. Most recently, Smooth was updated on October 27, 2026 and Wallpaper & Widget Maker Linen on October 24, 2026.

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