Comparison

JigsawDesigner vs Wallshader

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

Head to head
About

JigsawDesigner

Effortlessly create professional jigsaw puzzles and dielines for laser cutting or printing. Transform creative ideas into interlocking pieces in seconds with advanced algorithms and vector tools. Perfect for crafters, designers, and educators.

Highlights
  • Instant Jigsaw Maker
  • SVG Dieline Generator
  • Professional Vector Tools
  • Smart Drawing Modes
  • Precision Canvas
  • Layer Management
  • High-Quality SVG Export
Features
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JigsawDesigner: The Professional Jigsaw Puzzle Maker & SVG Dieline Generator Stop wasting hours manually tracing puzzle paths! Transform your creative ideas into professional jigsaw puzzles in seconds with JigsawDesigner. Whether you are a laser cutting enthusiast, a graphic designer, or a puzzle lover, we provide the high-precision automation you need to skip the tedious work and get straight to creating. FROM HOURS TO SECONDS: Standard design software requires hours of manual Bezier tracing to create a functional jigsaw pattern. JigsawDesigner's advanced C++ engine generates perfectly interlocking, randomized dielines instantly. What used to take a whole afternoon now takes a single tap. UNIVERSAL PURCHASE: Buy Once, Design Everywhere! Enjoy a seamless experience across all your devices. One single purchase or subscription unlocks the full power of JigsawDesigner on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Start your project on your Mac and refine it on the go with your iPhone—no extra cost! Powerful Jigsaw Generation & Design: • Instant Jigsaw Maker: Generate randomized, interlocking puzzle pieces instantly using professional-grade algorithms. • SVG Dieline Generator: Create precise cutting lines for laser cutters, craft machines, and die-cut printing. • Rich SVG Import: Preserve embedded images, gradients, patterns, and clipping paths while editing, saving, and reopening your work. • Professional Vector Editing: Resize with on-canvas handles, lock proportions, rotate around the selection center, and edit Bezier control points. • Natural Drawing Tools: Draw smooth Pencil paths, continue or join open contours, and use Bezier, Line, Rectangle, Circle, and Polygon tools. Key Features for Designers: • Precision Canvas: True zoom percentages, Fit to Window, and screen-sized anchors and handles for detailed dieline inspection. • Professional Templates: A built-in library of predefined jigsaw piece shapes and slots. • Layer Management: Organize complex designs effortlessly with a Photoshop-style layer system. • High-Quality Export: Save your designs as professional SVG files, ready for any laser software or CAD tool. Perfect For: • Laser Cutting: Generate ready-to-cut SVG files for wood, acrylic, or cardboard puzzles. • Education: Create engaging educational puzzles and classroom activities in a flash. • DIY Crafting: Make personalized gifts and custom physical puzzles without the design headache. Download JigsawDesigner today for a precise, time-saving jigsaw design workflow across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Wallshader

Create unique live and animated wallpapers using GPU shaders or your own photos. Design on your iPhone or iPad with a full suite of editing tools. Save and share your creations easily.

Highlights
  • GPU shader-based wallpaper creation
  • Photo-to-wallpaper filters
  • Live Photo export for Lock Screen
  • Precision editing tools
  • iCloud sync for library
  • Cross-device iPad optimization
  • Export for iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
Features
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Wallshader is a wallpaper design studio in your pocket. Don't scroll through someone else's wallpaper collection. Make your own: pick a GPU shader and shape it into something that's yours, or take a photo you love and dissolve it into dithering, halftone dots, or fluted glass. Save it as a still, or as a Live Photo that animates on your Lock Screen. A MOVING LOCK SCREEN, MADE BY YOU Animated shaders save as Live Photos. Set one as your Lock Screen wallpaper from Photos and it comes alive every time you wake your iPhone. A built-in visual guide walks you through the setup the first time. And it's easy on your battery: a Live Photo plays only for a moment when you wake the phone. Nothing runs in the background, and nothing renders while the phone is in your pocket. A REAL DESIGN STUDIO, NOT A FILTER APP - A growing collection of GPU shaders rendered in real time on your device: mesh gradients, grain gradients, metaballs, voronoi, warp, spirals, god rays, noise fields and more - Photo filters that turn your own images into wallpapers: dithering, halftone dots, halftone CMYK, water, fluted glass, paper texture - Photos-style editing: Shader, Adjust, Frame, and Colors tabs over a live Metal preview - Precision ruler sliders with tick-snapping and haptics - Curated color palettes applied by color role: one tap recolors the whole wallpaper coherently - Presets, Randomize, and full undo and redo - Photo wallpapers: bring images from Photos or Files, frame them with pan, zoom, and rotation, choose Original, B&W, or custom colors - Pinch into a full-screen preview at any time YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE - A Photos-style grid library with Favorites, full-screen browsing, and multi-select - iCloud sync (optional, no account, no sign-in): your entire library stays automatically in sync with Wallshader for Mac and between your iPhone and iPad. Design at your desk, finish on the couch. - Share any wallpaper as a tiny .wallshader file over AirDrop or Messages. The recipient taps to import and remix it, and Quick Look shows a real render right in Messages, Mail, and Files. - Export at iPhone, iPad, or Desktop sizes DESIGNED FOR iPAD, TOO On iPad, Wallshader becomes a landscape design surface: a wide canvas with the preview front and center, tool rails on either side, and a detail strip below. Closer to a desktop studio than a phone app. PRIVATE AND NATIVE 100% Swift and Metal. No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection. A wallpaper is a few kilobytes of parameters, not a downloaded video. The only network use is syncing your own library to your own iCloud. FAIR PRICING Free to try: keep up to 7 wallpapers with every editing feature unlocked. Wallshader Pro is a single one-time purchase, and it unlocks unlimited wallpapers on iPhone, iPad, and Mac together. No subscription, ever. Shader effects powered by Paper Shaders (paper.design).

Screenshots

JigsawDesigner4 screens
Wallshader4 screens

Verdict

The call

JigsawDesigner and Wallshader both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Wallshader's written reviews are positive against 86% of JigsawDesigner's. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. JigsawDesigner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Wallshader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for JigsawDesigner against 5.0 for Wallshader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of JigsawDesigner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wallshader's.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
JigsawDesigner versus Wallshader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJigsawDesignerWallshader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuangzhou Axing E - Commerce Co., Ltd.Osman Koycu

Customer experience

JigsawDesigner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Wallshader

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

JigsawDesigner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
1 purchases

Wallshader

One-time1
  • Wallshader Pro$8.99

Questions

Is JigsawDesigner free?
JigsawDesigner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wallshader free?
Wallshader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JigsawDesigner or Wallshader?
JigsawDesigner and Wallshader are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do JigsawDesigner or Wallshader have ads?
Neither JigsawDesigner nor Wallshader shows ads.

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