Comparison

Deco vs EV13

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

Head to head
About

Deco

Design personalized lock and home screens with custom backgrounds, text, and stickers. This app offers a user-friendly canvas for creating unique wallpapers from your photos, gradients, or patterns.

Highlights
  • Customizable backgrounds (photos, gradients, stripes, solids)
  • Sticker Studio for photo cutouts, text, and emojis
  • Intuitive canvas for resizing and multi-item selection
  • Seasonal and themed background collections
  • Export canvases and individual stickers
  • Quick emoji picker and import options
Features
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Your Lock Screen, Your Way. Create wallpapers that feel like you. Deco gives you everything you need to design custom lock screens and home screens — from photos of your favorite people to hand-picked gradients, all with a canvas that's a joy to use. Start with a Background - Photos — Use any photo from your library. Deco intelligently separates subjects so stickers can tuck behind or in front of them. - Gradients — Blend smooth color transitions with a full editor and curated presets. - Stripes — Design custom stripe patterns. Control colors, angle, spacing, and more. - Solids — Pick the exact color that fits your mood. Browse the new background selector with Top Picks that change by season, time, and holidays — plus categories like Nature, Moods, Vibrant, and Minimalist. Sticker Studio A complete sticker editor. Cut out photos, add text, drop in any emoji — then customize borders, colors, and apply effects like pixelate, comic book, or sketch. All your stickers in one place. A Canvas That Flows Smoother, higher resolution, and more intuitive. Resize and move at the same time, select multiple items, duplicate instantly. It just works. Share What You Make Export entire canvases or individual stickers. Share with friends or keep them for yourself. Also Includes - Quick emoji picker for instant additions - Import from Camera and Files - Sorting options throughout - New icon collections: Stickerbomb, Kamoji, and Developer Classics Deco won the Swift Student Challenge 2025. Privacy Policy: https://docs.aethers.world/deco/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

EV13

This app acts as a light meter for film photography, offering tactile analog controls for aperture, shutter, and ISO. It provides automatic exposure readings with various modes and allows photo capture with engraved light meter information.

Highlights
  • Automatic light meter
  • Multiple reading modes (Spot, center, average)
  • Tactile aperture, shutter, ISO control
  • Photo capture with meter info
  • Comprehensive dashboard
Features
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"EV13" is simple, yet designed with craftsmanship that you can find some of your favorite objects. Just like your trusty film camera. It features tactile analog control, automatic exposure reader, and meter preview with recording. Travel light and find a perfect companion to your camera. Features : - Automatic light meter supporting various mode - Various reading mode (Spot, center, average) - Tactile control for aperture, shutter and ISO - comprehensive dashboard design - Photo capture with light meter info engraved. Font is F5.6 from dot colon (ドットコロン) - ver 0.110 Used under SIL Open Font License, Ver 1.1

Screenshots

Deco4 screens
EV134 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: EV13 at Free against Deco's $2.99. EV13 also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Deco's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

EV13 is free to download; Deco costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Deco against 4.7 for EV13. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Deco's written reviews are positive against 82% of EV13's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deco ships an update every 2 days, EV13 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Deco versus EV13: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecoEV13
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (19 ratings)4.7 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam JonesMinsang choi

Customer experience

Deco

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral10.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

EV13

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

None

Deco

No in-app purchases

None

EV13

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deco free?
Deco costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is EV13 free?
EV13 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Deco or EV13?
Deco and EV13 are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 19 and 16 ratings respectively.
Do Deco or EV13 have ads?
Neither Deco nor EV13 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deco or EV13?
Deco ships an update every 2 days, and EV13 every 5 days. Most recently, Deco was updated on October 15, 2026 and EV13 on October 11, 2026.

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