Comparison

Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker vs Meshwork

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

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About

Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker

Features
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Create custom 4K gradient wallpapers, aesthetic backgrounds, and iPhone lock screens with Blend. Blend is a simple wallpaper maker for designing smooth gradient backgrounds in your own style. Choose colors, create ombre blends, build pastel or dark mode wallpapers, and preview your design before saving it. Use Blend to make: • 4K gradient wallpapers for iPhone and iPad • Aesthetic home screen and lock screen backgrounds • Smooth ombre, pastel, abstract, and minimalist designs • Custom solid color and gradient backgrounds • High resolution wallpapers with a clean preview before export Designed for anyone who wants a clean, minimal way to personalize their phone. Create a wallpaper from your own colors, save it in high resolution, and refresh your home screen or lock screen whenever you want. Download Blend and start creating custom gradient wallpapers today.

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Meshwork

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Meshwork makes wallpapers on your phone. Not a gallery of downloads — a generator. Every wallpaper you see was drawn the moment you opened the app, and no two are ever the same. THREE FAMILIES Gradients — soft mesh blobs, directional colour fields with visible folds, clean linear fades, and radial glows. Geometry — faceted bars, triangles, rings, waves, and grids, each tile coloured from the gradient beneath it. Lines — dense fields of lit strokes bending across black, with the moiré that comes from drawing them densely. THIRTEEN CURATED PALETTES Tokyo Night, Peach Sunset, Vaporwave, Pastel Dream, Deep Ocean, Ember, Mint Fresh, Midnight, Citrus Pop, Orchid Haze, and three dark sets built for Lines. Colours are chosen, never random, which is the difference between a wallpaper and noise. DESIGN YOUR OWN Open Create and build one from scratch. Pick two to six colours from sixty swatches, choose a style, then tune it — blob count, softness, angle, pattern density, light position. The preview updates as you drag. SEE IT BEFORE YOU SET IT Preview any wallpaper full screen behind a mock Lock or Home screen, so you can judge whether the clock and your icons stay readable. That is what actually decides if a wallpaper works. EXPORTS AT YOUR SCREEN'S TRUE SIZE Downloads render at your device's native resolution, not a scaled-up preview. Choose PNG, WebP, or JPEG. Watch an ad to unlock 4K export. KEEP WHAT YOU LIKE Tap the heart, or press and hold any thumbnail. Saved wallpapers are stored as a recipe rather than an image, so they cost almost nothing and still export at full size whenever you come back. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is nothing to sign up for. Meshwork has no backend, and your wallpapers never leave your phone unless you save them yourself. A NOTE ON SETTING WALLPAPERS iOS does not let any app change your wallpaper for you — that is an Apple restriction, not our choice. Meshwork saves to Photos at full resolution and shows you the two taps that finish the job. Remove ads with a single payment. It is not a subscription.

Screenshots

Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker4 screens
Meshwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker at none against Meshwork's shown. Meshwork's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Meshwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker versus Meshwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlend Gradient Wallpaper MakerMeshwork
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin TilleyMoin Pate

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker

One-time1
  • Pattern Overlay Designer$2.99
1 purchases

Meshwork

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker free?
Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meshwork free?
Meshwork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker or Meshwork have ads?
Meshwork shows ads; Blend Gradient Wallpaper Maker does not.

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