Comparison

Screenmade vs DNS Speed Tester

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

Head to head
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

DNS Speed Tester

Features
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DNS Speed Tester — Find the Fastest DNS for Your Network Slow websites, high latency, or unreliable connections? Your DNS provider could be the bottleneck. DNS Speed Tester is a powerful DNS benchmark tool that measures and compares the speed, latency, and reliability of DNS servers in real time, directly from your iPhone or iPad. Every website, app, game, and online service depends on DNS. If your ISP's default DNS is slow or overloaded, your internet experience can feel sluggish. DNS Speed Tester helps you benchmark popular DNS providers against your current configuration so you can find the fastest and most reliable DNS server for your network. Features • Real-Time Performance Dashboard View live graphs showing DNS response times and latency across multiple providers. • Multiple Testing Protocols Benchmark DNS performance using UDP, TCP, DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), DNS-over-TLS (DoT), and ICMP Ping. • Built-In DNS Providers Compare Google Public DNS, Cloudflare, Quad9, and curated Privacy, Security, Family, and Ad-Blocking DNS categories. • System DNS Detection Automatically detects and benchmarks your current device and network DNS configuration. • Advanced Benchmark Controls Customize test domains, concurrency levels, timeout limits, cache-busting, and latency calculation methods. • Custom DNS Providers Add, edit, and benchmark your own DNS servers. • Import and Export Settings Save, share, and restore DNS configurations using JSON. • Designed for iPhone and iPad Fast, lightweight, and optimized for iOS and iPadOS with automatic Light and Dark Mode support. Perfect For • Gamers looking for lower latency • Privacy-focused users comparing DoH and DoT providers • Home users optimizing browsing performance • Network administrators troubleshooting DNS issues • IT professionals validating DNS performance DNS Speed Tester provides accurate DNS benchmarking and performance analysis, helping you choose the best DNS service for speed, reliability, privacy, and security. Free. No account required. No telemetry. Just fast, accurate DNS benchmarking.

Screenshots

Screenmade4 screens
DNS Speed Tester3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Screenmade at every 5 days against DNS Speed Tester's every 10 days. DNS Speed Tester's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, DNS Speed Tester every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Screenmade versus DNS Speed Tester: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenmadeDNS Speed Tester
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmartMood LLCVishnu Nampoothiri UK

In-app purchases

None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

None

DNS Speed Tester

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DNS Speed Tester free?
DNS Speed Tester is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Screenmade or DNS Speed Tester have ads?
Neither Screenmade nor DNS Speed Tester shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Screenmade or DNS Speed Tester?
Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, and DNS Speed Tester every 10 days. Most recently, Screenmade was updated on September 22, 2026 and DNS Speed Tester on September 17, 2026.

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