Comparison

Screenmade vs App Volume

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

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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.

About

App Volume

This app allows you to set independent volume levels for each application on your iPhone and iPad. Create custom volume profiles for different scenarios and switch between them with ease using widgets.

Highlights
  • Per-app volume targets
  • Customizable volume profiles
  • Lock Screen widget
  • Home Screen widget
  • Control Center widget
  • Apple Shortcuts integration
  • iCloud backup
Features
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App Volume — the per-app volume control iPhone & iPad have been missing. Going from a quiet podcast to TikTok? No more eardrum panic. Each app gets its own volume — and now a second one just for Bluetooth headphones. Stop mashing the side button every time you switch apps. App Volume uses Apple's official Shortcuts engine — no jailbreak, no warranty risk, no advertising tracking. — WHY IT EXISTS — iOS has ONE global media volume: whatever you played last sets the level for whatever you open next. Spotify-to-TikTok startles everyone on the bus, and your ears want different levels on headphones than on the speaker. Apple never built per-app volume — so we did, the official way, on Apple's own Shortcuts engine. — HOW IT WORKS — 1. Create a mode and add your apps with their target volumes (TikTok 30%, Podcast 70%, Netflix 80%). 2. The in-app guide walks you through installing our pre-built template in Apple Shortcuts once. Whenever you add another app later, add it to the list of apps that trigger your existing Personal Automation. 3. Follow the in-app animation to set up one Personal Automation — switching apps auto-applies the right volume. 4. Add the widget to Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Control Center — tap to switch the whole mode in one go. — NEW: HEADPHONE VOLUMES — Turn on "Separate headphone volume" for any app to give it a second, headphone-only level. Bluetooth helper automations handle the switch when they run; wired headphones aren't supported. — USE CASES — • A volume per app — Podcast 70%, music 60%, video 80%. Set once; switching apps auto-applies. • Ears vs room — TikTok at 25% on AirPods, 60% on the speaker. — FEATURES — • Per-app volume targets — an independent volume for any app • Headphone volumes — a second per-app volume that applies while Bluetooth headphones are connected • Modes — bundle rules into named modes, swap the whole set instantly • Global rules — pin an app's volume across every mode; great for games that should always open muted • Ready-made modes — browse Discover, install Bedtime or Silent Game Ads in one tap • Share your setup — send any mode as a picture + link a friend can import • Widgets everywhere — Lock Screen, Home Screen, Control Center (iOS 18+): see the active mode, tap to switch • Switch notifications — silent banner by default, sound + haptic, or off • iCloud backup — modes backed up to your iCloud — GOOD TO KNOW — Honest limits, no surprises: • One volume at a time: App Volume sets the system volume the moment you open or switch to an app. iOS can't mix two apps playing at once — a video during a Discord call shares one level, and no App Store app can change that. • It shines with apps you actively open and switch between. Audio already playing in the background keeps its level until you return to that app. • Headphones: Bluetooth helpers apply the headphone level when they run; speaker volume may take a few seconds to return after disconnecting. Wired headphones aren't supported because Shortcuts only provides automation triggers for Bluetooth connections and disconnections. — PRIVACY FIRST — • No ad tracking or data sales. We collect basic analytics and crash reports. Feedback you choose to send reaches us with its text, optional email, app/build and iOS versions, device model, and locale. • No microphone, no location, no contacts • Troubleshooting guide • Privacy Policy in Settings → Privacy — SUPPORT — Use the in-app feedback button to reach us directly — we read every message. Built for iPhone and iPad. From a one-person studio. Transparent development. Terms of Use (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Screenmade4 screens
App Volume4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Screenmade at 4.7 against App Volume's 3.5. Screenmade also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). App Volume's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. App Volume sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Screenmade asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Screenmade holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, App Volume weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Screenmade versus App Volume: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenmadeApp Volume
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9 ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmartMood LLCCHIH YU LIN

Customer experience

Screenmade

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

App Volume

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

App Volume

One-time1
  • App Volume Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is App Volume free?
App Volume is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Screenmade or App Volume?
Screenmade is rated higher. Screenmade averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while App Volume averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Screenmade or App Volume have ads?
Neither Screenmade nor App Volume shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Screenmade or App Volume?
Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, and App Volume weekly. Most recently, Screenmade was updated on October 7, 2026 and App Volume on October 12, 2026.

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