Sci vs Theme Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sci
Transform your mobile typing experience with a fully customizable keyboard. Choose from numerous themes, backgrounds, key styles, and fonts to create a unique input panel. Personalize colors, height, and sounds for a truly tailored feel.
- 20 preset themes
- 81 background images
- 44 animated GIF backgrounds
- 50 key styles
- 35 fonts
- 160 typing sounds
- DIY customization tools
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Make your keyboard a Sci-Fi input panel. Have fun typing with the style and sounds you love. Includes: • 20 preset themes • 81 background images (or use your own photos) • 44 animated GIF backgrounds • 50 key styles (or blank) • 35 fonts + default • Set 6 typing sounds (160 to choose from) • 50+ Languages/keyboard layouts (Asian writing languages are incomplete) • Lots of DIY tools and options to change the colors, height, vibration, popup, suggestions, and more. Some of the Sci-Fi styles are loosely modeled after popular sci-fi shows and movies. To parody how the sci-fi designers thought future displays would look while displaying meaningless information and having indecipherable use, I gave them actual function that makes sense. *These are generic images. Please do not ask me in reviews or by mail to include any trademarked names, logos, images or other properties. I respect copyrights and will not include them.
Theme Studio
Design custom app icons, widgets, and wallpapers to personalize your iPhone home screen. Create unique themes by mixing and matching styles, and save your creations for easy application.
- Custom app icon maker
- Themed widget builder
- Matching wallpaper generator
- Icon pack library
- Save and load custom themes
- Live icon preview
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Theme Studio is a design tool for creating custom app icons, themed widgets, and matching wallpapers for a personalized iPhone home screen aesthetic. You make everything in the app, save it to your Photos, then apply it yourself: icons through Apple's Shortcuts app, and wallpapers through the iOS Settings app. Theme Studio never changes your app icons, wallpaper, or any system setting automatically. HOW IT WORKS 1. Design a custom icon, widget, or wallpaper in the app. 2. Save the image to your Photos library. 3. For icons, open Apple's Shortcuts app and add the saved image to your Home Screen. For wallpapers, set the saved image from the iOS Settings app. The app walks you through these steps the first time. ICON PACKS Choose from a variety of icon styles: minimalist line art, bold chroma, retro pixel grids, and more. Each pack is designed to feel cohesive. Browse the collection, search by app name, or mix and match icon packs to design a custom home screen aesthetic. STUDIO: CUSTOM ICON MAKER & ICON CHANGER Studio is your in-app custom icon maker and icon changer. Customize any glyph: layer solid colors, gradients, photo backgrounds, or blurred wallpaper slices behind it. Tune position, scale, shadow, and color overlays, or upload your own PNG or JPEG. The live preview shows how each icon will look once you apply it. When you are happy with an icon, save it to your Photos and use the Shortcuts app to add it to your Home Screen. WIDGETS Build clock, weather, calendar, battery, app grid, photo, and quote widgets that match your home screen aesthetic. Pick fonts, colors, backgrounds, and styles, from minimalist to bold, or bake your wallpaper into the widget background for a transparent look. Widgets are added by you from the standard iOS widget gallery (touch and hold the Home Screen, then add a Theme Studio widget). WALLPAPERS Browse a library of curated wallpapers, or generate color-matched wallpapers from your icon palette. Save them to your Photos, then set them as your Lock Screen or Home Screen wallpaper from the iOS Settings app. SAVE YOUR THEMES Save your icon, wallpaper, and widget combinations as themes. Loading a saved theme brings all of its pieces back into the app at once, ready for you to save and apply. Build seasonal looks, mood-based aesthetics, or personalize your home screen aesthetic for any occasion. APPLYING YOUR ICONS Theme Studio is an icon changer built around Apple's built-in Shortcuts app, the standard, user-initiated workflow for icon customization on iOS. You save an icon image to your Photos, then add it to your Home Screen yourself in the Shortcuts app. Theme Studio guides you through this the first time, and does not change your app icons or Home Screen for you. Made by an indie developer focused on iPhone personalization. Questions, ideas, or bug reports? Reach out through Settings > Contact. SUBSCRIPTIONS & IN-APP PRODUCTS The free tier includes the Solid icon pack and non-Pro widgets. Theme Studio Pro unlocks additional icon packs, premium widgets, and custom PNG icon saving. Monthly, yearly, and lifetime purchase options are available in the app. Terms and pricing may vary by region. Information about the auto-renewable subscription: Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel at any time. Manage in Account Settings. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. For more information on how to cancel a subscription, please review - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Theme Studio at Free against Sci's $3.99. Theme Studio also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Sci's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#53 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads 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
Theme Studio is free to download; Sci costs $3.99 up front. Theme Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sci asks for nothing beyond the download.
Theme Studio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Sci's written reviews are positive against 100% of Theme Studio's.
| Parameter | Sci | Theme Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #53 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NSTE, LLC | Invader Digital |
Customer experience
Sci
Theme Studio
In-app purchases
Sci
No in-app purchases
Theme Studio
- Theme Studio Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Theme Studio Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99





