Comparison

Radiance Wallpapers vs Project Indigo

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

Head to head
About

Radiance Wallpapers

Discover and create stunning wallpapers for your phone. Choose from an extensive library of high-resolution designs or personalize your device by editing photos and generating unique mesh gradients. Enjoy a completely ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Extensive wallpaper library
  • Create custom mesh gradients
  • Edit photos into wallpapers
  • Collaborations with creators
  • Ad-free experience
  • Personalize home screen
Features
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The app your home screen has been waiting for. Radiance Wallpaper Studio is a radically new wallpaper app that offers more ways than ever before to spice up your phone. You can choose from an extensive library of wallpapers, or you can create and edit your own. WALLPAPER LIBRARY — Our vast library of over 400 high-resolution wallpapers gives you an extensive amount of ways to deck out your phone. We collaborate with well-known creators, companies, and artists to frequently bring you new wallpapers. All for free, with minimal use of AI. EDITING CAPABILITIES — Radiance allows you to convert any photo into a cool wallpaper. Just import an image and retouch it in the Create tab with a personal color gradient. You can select any wallpaper from our wallpaper library, too. CREATE A WALLPAPER — This is unlike any other wallpaper app; with Radiance, you can create a unique Mesh Gradient wallpaper. Simply select your colors and drag the curves. You can make it light or dark, and select any color you want. When you're finished, you can save your wallpaper and apply it to your device. ZERO ADS — Radiance is free of advertisements; just the way software should be. It's time to change your wallpaper. Install Radiance Wallpaper Studio today. ———— Radiance+ is an optional subscription that helps support the development of Radiance and provides you an early preview to upcoming features. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Project Indigo

This app offers advanced computational photography with manual controls for a natural, SLR-like image look. It captures bursts of photos to create high-quality images with reduced noise and enhanced dynamic range, suitable for both casual and professional users.

Highlights
  • Computational photography pipeline
  • Natural image look (SLR-like)
  • Full manual camera controls
  • Photo and Night modes
  • Super-resolution for zoom
  • Macro mode
  • Live viewfinder with histogram and zebra striping
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Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page. Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads. For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer. A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range. PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted. Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise. NATURAL LOOK Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them. PRO CONTROLS Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray. Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped. SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active. MACRO MODE Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots. VIEWFINDER Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images. LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form: - AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll. - Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view. - Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.

Screenshots

Radiance Wallpapers4 screens
Project Indigo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Radiance Wallpapers at 93% against Project Indigo's 45%. Radiance Wallpapers also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Project Indigo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Radiance Wallpapers sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Project Indigo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Radiance Wallpapers holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 153 and 719 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Radiance Wallpapers's written reviews are positive against 45% of Project Indigo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Radiance Wallpapers ships an update weekly, Project Indigo every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Radiance Wallpapers versus Project Indigo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadiance WallpapersProject Indigo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (153 ratings) — better3.8 (719 ratings)
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews — better45.3% of reviews
Number of ratings153719 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB347 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAsher DippreyAdobe Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Radiance Wallpapers

All ratings145 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive93.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative2.6%

Project Indigo

All ratings702 ratings
Positive64.1%
Neutral11.5%
Negative24.4%
Written reviews1,193 reviews
Positive45.3%
Neutral15.8%
Negative39.0%

User reviews

Radiance Wallpapers

From 153 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🎨 Allows for color customization
  • 💡 Unique and creative wallpapers
  • 🚀 Smooth and seamless performance
  • 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Lacks basic editing features like zoom and pan
  • 🤔 Some users found the tutorial lacking

Project Indigo

From 719 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent image quality
  • 🚀 Powerful processing algorithms
  • 🔍 Impressive zoom and detail enhancement

Room to improve

  • 🔥 Overheating issues
  • 🔋 Battery drain
  • 🐛 Focusing problems
  • 🚫 Incompatible with some regions/devices

Bugs and requests

Radiance Wallpapers

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App doesn't work for some users
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add zoom and pan functionality
  • Provide more detailed tutorial
  • Develop a macOS version

Project Indigo

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Shutter sound cannot be disabled
  • AI-based features causing loss of detail

Requested features

3 requests
  • Support for higher resolution photos
  • Improved tap-to-focus functionality
  • Better optimization for battery and thermal performance

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Radiance Wallpapers

Subscriptions2
  • Radiance+$1.991 Month
  • Radiance+$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Radiance Plus – Lifetime$49.99
None

Project Indigo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Radiance Wallpapers free?
Radiance Wallpapers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Project Indigo free?
Project Indigo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Radiance Wallpapers or Project Indigo?
Radiance Wallpapers is rated higher. Radiance Wallpapers averages 4.8 out of 5 from 153 ratings, while Project Indigo averages 3.8 from 719 ratings.
Do Radiance Wallpapers or Project Indigo have ads?
Radiance Wallpapers shows ads; Project Indigo does not.
Which is updated more often, Radiance Wallpapers or Project Indigo?
Radiance Wallpapers ships an update weekly, and Project Indigo every 3 weeks. Most recently, Radiance Wallpapers was updated on October 23, 2026 and Project Indigo on October 23, 2026.

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