Comparison

CarTiles vs Screenmade

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

Head to head
About

CarTiles

Personalize your iPhone home screen and CarPlay dashboard with customizable tiles featuring car logos, clocks, and photos. Design a unique car-focused interface for your phone and vehicle.

Highlights
  • Customizable car brand logos
  • Analog and digital clock widgets
  • Countdown and quote tiles
  • Personalized license plate designs
  • Photo tiles with background cutouts
  • AI car generation
  • Home screen and CarPlay compatibility
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Personalize your iPhone home screen and CarPlay dashboard with beautiful, customizable tiles. Make your car the focus of your phone — your way. DESIGN YOUR DASHBOARD Build widgets for your home screen and CarPlay from one place. Choose from a deep catalog of car brand logos, analog and digital clocks, countdowns, daily quotes, license plates, and photo tiles. CAR BRAND LIBRARY Show off your car. Pick from dozens of brand logos — BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla, Ford, Lexus, Toyota, Audi, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and many more. WIDGETS THAT WORK EVERYWHERE Every tile you build can be placed on your home screen as a widget — and on your CarPlay dashboard, where supported. Same tile, two places. POWERFUL CUSTOMIZATION - Custom backgrounds — solid colors, gradients, your own photos, or preset images - Text layers with custom fonts, colors, and positioning - Photo cutouts — remove backgrounds and turn any car photo into a tile - AI car generation — generate any make, model, and color in seconds - Analog and digital clocks with multiple styles - Countdown tiles to any date — vacations, deliveries, milestones - Daily quotes that rotate automatically - License plate tiles with custom design and lettering Privacy Policy: https://cartiles.apronix.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://cartiles.apronix.com/terms.html

About

Screenmade

Personalize your iPhone and iPad screens with a wide array of customizable widgets for Home, Lock, StandBy, and CarPlay. Create unique wallpapers and add interactive elements to your device.

Highlights
  • 30+ customizable widgets
  • Generative wallpaper engine
  • Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
  • Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
  • Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Make every screen yours - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and CarPlay. Screenmade is a widget studio packed with 30+ beautiful, fully customizable widgets and a generative wallpaper engine to match. Pick a widget and make it yours: choose colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts until it fits your screen perfectly. FOUR SURFACES, ONE STYLE • Home Screen - small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets • Lock Screen - inline, circular, and rectangular widgets • StandBy - oversized, glanceable widgets made to read across the room, including a calm night mode • CarPlay - widgets made for car lovers TAP TO PLAY Some widgets do more than sit there. Play songs on the Piano, tap out grooves on the Drum Pad, pop a sheet of Bubble Wrap, log a glass on the Water Tracker, shake the Fortune Ball, or feed your Virtual Pet - with real sound, right from the widget. Check off habits and groceries, or launch an app or contact in a single tap. No need to open the app. MAKE IT YOURS • Background styles like Tinted, Solid, Mesh, Radial, Duotone, and Gloss • A curated color palette plus custom colors, and a set of typefaces (rounded, serif, modern, italic, mono) • Hand-tuned presets for every widget, so you can start from a look you love and make it your own GENERATIVE WALLPAPERS Create one-of-a-kind wallpapers with a library of art engines - Mesh, Marble, Stripes, Bauhaus, Topographic, Bokeh, Northern Lights, and more - in tones that match your vibe. Export for any iPhone or iPad. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Turn on optional iCloud sync to carry your widget setups between iPhone and iPad. Your photos stay on your device. Free to download. Built for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

CarTiles4 screens
Screenmade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Screenmade at none against CarTiles's 3. Screenmade also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2). CarTiles's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. CarTiles sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Screenmade asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CarTiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
CarTiles versus Screenmade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarTilesScreenmade
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (9 ratings)
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size182 MB49 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperTapronixSmartMood LLC

Customer experience

CarTiles

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Screenmade

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

CarTiles

Subscriptions3
  • CarTiles Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • CarTiles Monthly$1.991 Month
  • CarTiles Yearly$9.991 Year
None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CarTiles free?
CarTiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CarTiles or Screenmade?
CarTiles is rated higher. CarTiles averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Screenmade averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do CarTiles or Screenmade have ads?
Neither CarTiles nor Screenmade shows ads.

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