HDQWalls vs Meshwork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HDQWalls
Explore and download a vast collection of high-quality HD wallpapers for your iPhone. Browse by category, search by tags, and save your favorites. You can even upload and share your own creations with the community.
- Thousands of updated HD wallpapers
- Browse by category and tags
- Save favorite wallpapers
- Download in multiple qualities
- Upload and share user wallpapers
- View creator profiles
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Discover and download stunning HD and 4K wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad with HDQWalls — your go-to source for high-quality backgrounds. Browse a massive collection of wallpapers organized by categories and tags. Whether you're looking for nature, abstract art, minimal designs, dark themes, or anything in between — HDQWalls has something for every style. FEATURES - Thousands of HD and 4K wallpapers, updated daily - Home + Lock Screen pairs designed to match - Your own collections to organise the wallpapers you love - Search by tags, colour and AMOLED black, with suggestions as you type - Sort by newest, oldest or shuffle - Download in Original, High or Standard quality - Upload and share your own wallpapers with the community - Made for iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages PREMIUM Upgrade to HDQWalls Premium for the ultimate experience: - Ad-free browsing - Access to exclusive premium wallpapers in higher quality - Support independent development Available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Download HDQWalls and give your iPhone a fresh new look every day. Terms of Use: https://hdqwalls.com/mobile-app/ios/terms-of-use.html Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
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Verdict
HDQWalls and Meshwork are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. HDQWalls sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Meshwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | HDQWalls | Meshwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaskamal Singh | Moin Pate |
In-app purchases
HDQWalls
- Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$5.991 Year
Meshwork
- Remove Ads$2.99









