Comparison

WallMapper vs Glance

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

Head to head
About

WallMapper

Features
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Turn meaningful places into beautiful wallpapers and wall art you'll actually love. WallMapper crafts custom map wallpapers and framed posters from any place on Earth. Your childhood neighborhood. The restaurant where you proposed. The trail you hiked last summer. The airport you land in every year. Anywhere that matters is now a piece of art you can set as your lock screen, print, or frame on your wall. — How it works — 1. Search any city or drop a pin on the map 2. Pick a theme — curated palettes for every mood 3. Add your own markers and route lines (morning run, first date walk) 4. Customize typography with 15+ hand-picked fonts 5. Pick your size and export, done — Perfect for — • Phone and desktop wallpapers of places you love • Housewarming gifts with the recipient's home address • Wedding and anniversary art featuring the venue • Travel memories from every trip, turned into a framed series • Hometown posters as meaningful birthday presents • Office walls with your commute route or favorite café — Features — • Real street data from OpenStreetMap — accurate down to side streets • Route calculation — driving or walking paths between two points • Multiple marker styles — pins, hearts, stars, diamonds • Typography control — font per line, size scaling • Custom dimensions — any aspect ratio, up to 10800 px wide for print • Full-resolution exports — no quality loss, no watermarks • No account required, no tracking — Pricing — Your first export is completely free — create, refine, and save one wallpaper or poster with no strings attached. For unlimited exports after that, a single one-time purchase unlocks the app forever, including all current and future themes. No subscriptions, no hidden fees. Family Sharing supported. — Made with craft — Every theme, font pairing, and spacing value is hand-tuned. If you love it, a quick review helps more than you might think.

About

Glance

Features
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Glance is a generative wallpaper studio. Tap once and it paints a brand-new, one-of-a-kind background — no two are ever the same. Design endless abstract art for your iPhone Lock Screen and Apple Watch, right from your phone. DESIGN IN SECONDS • 84 hand-crafted styles — aurora, mesh gradients, silk, nebula, glowing orbs, lens flare, coronas and many more • Mix any two styles into one for a truly unique look • 100+ curated color palettes, or build and save your own • Fine-tune brightness, warmth, softness, contrast and saturation • Shuffle for instant inspiration, then keep the ones you love MAKE IT YOURS • Switch between iPhone Lock Screen and Apple Watch with a single tap • Organize your saved wallpapers into folders • Turn your own photos into soft, wallpaper-ready art • Living wallpapers that gently move (Pro) • Shortcuts & Siri: create or save a wallpaper hands-free • A fresh Wallpaper of the Day, every day — or shuffle from the interactive widget BUILT TO LOOK STUNNING • Rich, high-resolution renders that stay crisp on any screen • Deep, OLED-friendly colors that keep the clock easy to read • Save straight to a Glance album in Photos — set it in seconds GLANCE PRO Unlock all 84 styles, living wallpapers, your own photos, custom palettes and fine-tuning. Weekly or yearly subscription with a free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage anytime in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://birkanaksoy.github.io/glance/privacy

Screenshots

WallMapper4 screens
Glance4 screens

Verdict

The call

WallMapper and Glance 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WallMapper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Glance sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
WallMapper versus Glance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWallMapperGlance
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperABDULLAH ATIF BARANBirkan Aksoy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

WallMapper

One-time1
  • WallMapper Premium$6.99
2 purchases

Glance

Subscriptions2
  • Glance Pro (Weekly)$3.997 Days
  • Glance Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year

Questions

Is WallMapper free?
WallMapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glance free?
Glance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do WallMapper or Glance have ads?
Neither WallMapper nor Glance shows ads.

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