Comparison

Wallpapers HD vs PixelThat

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

Head to head
About

Wallpapers HD

Features
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Wallpapers that already fit your phone screen — plus a studio for building your own. VividDeck is a wallpaper library and a design studio in one app. The whole deck ships inside the app at full phone resolution, so nothing arrives stretched, cropped or soft when you set it — and it all still works in airplane mode, because nothing is downloaded. When nothing in the deck is quite right, Studio lets you build a background from scratch: layered gradients, curated color palettes, blur and tint on your own photo, or a blend of two shots from your camera roll. WHAT YOU GET - 70 wallpapers across 10 themes — nature, abstract, dark, minimal, architecture, space, gradient, neon, city and ocean - A featured pick that changes every single day, so your Home Screen never goes stale - A gradient creator with up to five color stops and linear, radial or angular styles, kept on your own creations shelf - Blur & Tint and a two-photo Mixer that turn ordinary camera roll shots into clean, uncluttered backgrounds - Smart Collections that sort the deck for you — Warm Tones, Dark Mode Perfect, Most Loved and Premium Picks - Favourites, view history, daily streaks and optional wallpaper reminders, all kept on your device with no account to create PERFECT FOR - Anyone tired of saved images that look pixelated or badly cropped on a modern iPhone - Dark mode fans who want deep, low-glare backgrounds that keep icons readable - People who need a background in one exact color to match an accent, a logo or a mood - Anyone who likes refreshing their Home and Lock Screen every few days instead of every few years WHY NOT JUST SAVE A PICTURE FROM THE WEB? Because web images are the wrong shape. A random photo gets squeezed by iOS, loses its top and bottom, and turns muddy behind the clock. Every wallpaper here is already sized for a full-height iPhone screen, and everything you build in Studio exports at that same size — so what you preview is exactly what you get. PRIVACY Everything runs on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, and no data leaving your phone. Favourites, history and your saved creations live in local storage only. The app asks for photo access solely when you save a wallpaper or pick one of your own photos to edit, and for notification access only if you switch on the wallpaper reminders. FULL ACCESS Free gives you the standard wallpapers, three favourites and a two-color gradient. One purchase unlocks everything: all 70 wallpapers including the premium ones, every Smart Collection, the full gradient creator (five color stops, all three gradient types, premium presets), the premium color palettes, Blur & Tint, the two-photo Mixer, unlimited favourites and full-resolution export. Choose the weekly plan, the yearly plan, or the one-time lifetime purchase — lifetime is a single payment that never renews. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel them any time in your Apple Account settings. Note: iOS does not let any app change your wallpaper for you. VividDeck saves the finished image to Photos, and you set it from Settings > Wallpaper — it takes about ten seconds. Open Discover, tap today's featured pick and save it to Photos. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? Contact us at tphuc.work@gmail.com

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PixelThat

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PixelThat turns a photo into crisp pixel art or ASCII art, right on your iPhone. Point it at a picture and it does the work a pixel artist would do: it finds the face and frames it the way an avatar is framed, lifts the subject off the background so the edges stay clean, and flattens the colours to a small, deliberate palette chosen from the picture itself, with faces weighted so skin tones survive. Only then does it lay down the pixels. Everything runs on your device. There is no account, no upload and no queue. The app contains no networking code at all, so it works with the network switched off. ASCII ART MODE • Switch the same photo to characters: classic, colour, blocks, Braille dots or your own words • Choose how many characters across, and add grain and glow for a film look • Copy it as text, save it as a picture, or make it move as a short looping video AVATARS THAT FIND THE FACE • Auto framing puts the head where an avatar's head belongs • Or drag the selection box yourself: move it, pinch it, tap to jump • Square, rounded or circle, with a 1 to 4 pixel frame in any colour BACKGROUNDS ON YOUR TERMS • Transparent, a flat colour, a two-colour gradient, a pixel-art blue sky with clouds, or keep the photo • On-device subject cutout with a threshold, grow and shrink, and a live preview when it needs a nudge PALETTES WORTH KEEPING • A palette built from your own picture, in CIELAB, with faces weighted • Paste your own hex colours • Floyd-Steinberg and ordered 2x2, 4x4 and 8x8 dithering FINE CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT • Sizes from 8 to 256 pixels, or any width from 4 to 512, with the common sizes previewed side by side • Auto levels, ink edges and outlines • Contrast, saturation, brightness and gamma • Fine zoom, pan and mirror • Hold to compare with your photo, with undo and redo RECENTS THAT REMEMBER Every picture you keep is filed with the settings that made it. Tap it later to put those settings on a different photo, which is how you make a set of avatars that match. EXPORT Save the enlarged copy to Photos, which is what most sites want for an avatar, or share both the real pixels and the enlargement. PRIVACY PixelThat collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no tracking and no network requests of any kind.

Screenshots

Wallpapers HD4 screens
PixelThat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PixelThat at none against Wallpapers HD's 3. PixelThat also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Wallpapers HD sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. PixelThat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wallpapers HD ships an update monthly, PixelThat every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Wallpapers HD versus PixelThat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWallpapers HDPixelThat
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamMohammed Shehada

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Wallpapers HD

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
  • Annual Premium$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99
None

PixelThat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wallpapers HD free?
Wallpapers HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PixelThat free?
PixelThat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wallpapers HD or PixelThat have ads?
Neither Wallpapers HD nor PixelThat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wallpapers HD or PixelThat?
Wallpapers HD ships an update monthly, and PixelThat every 6 days. Most recently, Wallpapers HD was updated on October 8, 2026 and PixelThat on October 6, 2026.

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